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Caption on image: Judge, Superior Court.

Cartoons and Caricatures of Seattle Citizens (page 7).

Photographs from which these Pen and Ink Sketches were Produced have been furnished principally by James & Bushnell and E.S. Curtis. Engravings by the Art Engraving Company. Published by the Associated Cartoon Service. Artwork by Edwin F. Brotze.

Robert Brooke Albertson (1859-1917) was born and raised in North Carolina, descended from Quaker colonists. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1881, and received his legal education at North Carolina State University before being admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1883, and subsequently moved to Seattle where he worked for the Seattle Lumber & Commercial Company and as assistant editor of the Seattle Morning Chronicle before becoming law clerk in the office of Burke & Rasin. He opened his own law office in 1886. He became City Attorney of Seattle in 1889, was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1894, and in 1903 he was appointed as a King County judge. He was married to Miss Nancy de Wolfe, with whom he had one son.