Robbins, Eliza – Roberts, Howard
Robbins, Eliza
educator, author, was born in 1786 in Massachusetts. She was an educator in Boston for many years; and the author of Elements of Mythology; Grecian History; and Tales from American History. She died in 1853.
Robbins, Francis Le Baron
clergyman, was born May 2, 1830, in Camillus, N. Y. He took up the work of founding a church in Kensington, the center of the manufacturing district of Philadelphia. In this he succeeded, and in 1886 the Beacon Presbyterian church was dedicated. con-
Robbins, Gaston A
lawyer, gressman, was born Sept. 26, 1859, in Alabama. He entered the university of North Carolina in 1877, and graduated in 1879, studied law with Dick and Dillard, at Greensboro, N. C. He was admitted to practice law in the supreme court of North Carolina in 1880. Returning then to Selma, Ala., he employed himself in the practice of the law; and was presidential elector on the Cleveland and Hendricks ticket in 1884. He was elected to the fifty-third and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat. His father, a noted lawyer, was killed in the confederate service in 1864.
Robbins, George R
physician, congressman, was born Sept. 24, 1812, in Allentown, N. J. He was elected from New Jersey to the house of representatives of the thirty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-fifth congress.
Robbins, Henry Alfred
physician, author, was born Feb. 9, 1839, in St.
Louis, Mo. He is a prominent physician of Washington City; and is the author of Non-Venereal Syphilis; Organic Syphilis; and Under the Red Flag of the Commune.
Robbins, Horace Wolcott
artist, was born Oct. 21, 1842, in Mobile, Ala.
Many of his works are pictures of mountain and lake scenery, in the delineation of which he has, perhaps, been most successful. His oil-paintings include Blue Hills of Jamaica; Passing Shower, Jamaica; Roadside Elms; Harbor Islands, Lake George; Lake Katahdin, Maine; Early Autumn, Adirondacks; Sunset on the Tunxis; Darkening in the Evening Glory; and The Lane.
Robbins, Jane Bodwell Bar- Nett
educator, pioneer, was born Feb. 24, 1815, in Methuen, Mass. She was a pioneer in Wisconsin in 1855, in Minnesota in 1856, and in Washington territory in 1878. She was an active teacher, pioneer, Sunday-school and Woman's Christian Temperance union worker, and a missionary and suffrage patron. She voted in the years 1881-87 in Washington territory; and there died on Nov. 19, 1894, at Cheney.
Robbins, John
manufacturer, congressman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was for several years engaged in the iron and steel business. He was elected to congress in 1848, 1850 and 1852; subsequently held a number of local positions; and in 1874 was elected to the fortyfourth congress as a democrat.
Robbins, Joseph
patriot, revolutionary soldier, was born Feb. 22, 1729, in Acton, Mass. He commanded a company of yeomanry in the first fight with the British at the old North Bridge at Concord, April 19, 1775, in response to the call of Paul Revere. On patriot's day, 1895, the citizens of Acton, Concord and Lexington set up a large memorial stone on the place where once stood the home of Capt.
Joseph Robbins. He died March 31, 1800.
Robbins, Mrs. Mary Caroline
[PIKE], author, was born in 1842, in Maine. She is a writer for the magazines on art, landscape gardening, and kindred topics; and is the author of The Rescue of An Old Place.
ROBBINS, RENSSELAER DAVID CHANCEFORD, linguist, educator, author, was born Dec. 23, 1811, in Wardsborough, Vt. He contributed to the Bibliotheca Sacra, translated Egypt and the Books of Moses from the German of E. W.
Hengstenberg; and Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, with notes, and edited the third and fourth editions of Prof.
Moses Stuart's Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans, Hebrews and Ecclesiastes. He died Nov. 3, 1882, in Newton Highlands, Mass.
Robbins, Royal
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1788, in Wethersfield, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Kensington, Conn., in 1816- 61; and the author of Outlines of Ancient History; and The World Displayed. He died March 26, 1861, in Berlin, Conn.
Robbins, William M
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1829 in Randolph county, N. C. He was elected to the senate of North Carolina in 1868, and re-elected in 1870. He was elected to the forty-third and fortyfourth congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Roberdeau, Daniel
congressman, was born in 1727 in the West Indies. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779; and was a signer of the articles of confederation. He died Jan. 5, 1795, in Winchester, Va.
Roberts, Ada Palmer
author, poet, was born Feb. 14, 1852, in North East, N. Y. Prior to her marriage in 1878 she taught music. She is the author of a number of popular stories; and her poems have appeared in several standard works.
Roberts, Mrs. Anna Smith
[RICKEY], poet, was born Dec. 23, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a poet who published Forest Flowers of the West. She died Aug. 10, 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Roberts, Anthony E
merchant, congressman, was born in October, 1803, in Chester county, Pa. In 1839 he was elected sheriff of Lancaster county, and held the office till 1842; and in 1849 was appointed marshal of the eastern district of Pennsylvania. He was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth congress.
Roberts, Benjamin Stone
soldier, was born in 1811 in Manchester, Vt.
In 1835 he graduated from West Point; and practiced law in Iowa in 1843-46. He then re-entered the army; served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of major general. After two years as professor of tactics at Yale college, he retired from active service in 1870; and then undertook the manufacture and sale of a rifle of his own invention. He died Jan. 29, 1875, in Washington, D. C.
Roberts, Benjamin Titus
clergyman, author, was born in 1823 in New York. He was a free methodist clergyman of North Chili, N. Y., founder of Chesbrough academy there in 1865, and president of that institution in 1869-93. He was the author of Fishers of Men; Why Another Sect; First Lessons on Money; and Ordaining Women. He died in 1893.
Roberts, Charles B
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born April 19, 1842, in Uniontown, Md. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and graduated at Calvert college of New Windsor, Md. During 1874-78 he was a member of congress from the second Maryland congressional district. For four years he was attorney general of Maryland; afterward became associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland; and subsequently chief judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Maryland.
Roberts, Charles George Doug- Las
littérateur, author, poet, was born in 1860 in New Brunswick. He is a popular Canadian poet and writer, formerly a professor of literature in King's college, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and in recent years a resident of New York city. His work in verse includes, Orion, and Other Poems; in Divers Tones; The Book of the Native. His prose comprises, Earth's Enigmas, a collection of short stories; The Forge in the Forest, an Acadian Romance; A History of Canada; Around the Camp Fire; Canadian Guide Book; Reube Dare's Shad Boat; Raid from Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage.
Roberts, Ellis H
journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1827, in Utica, N. Y. He was a member of the legislature of the state of New York in 1867. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-second and forty-third congresses. He was the author of Government Revenue; and New York, the Planting and Growth of the Empire State.
Roberts, Elwood
educator, journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 22, 1846, in Wilmington, Del. He received a liberal education; and for fourteen years taught in the public and private schools of Pennsylvania. Since 1882 he has been engaged in editorial work on the Norristown Herald, one of the foremost daily and weekly newspapers of the east. He is one of the founders of the Montgomery County Historical society, and is its librarian. He is the author of a series of papers on Valley Forge Camp-Ground, now being published in book form; a volume of poems entitled Lyrics of Quakerism; and he is greatly interested in genealogical research.
Roberts, George Brooke
railroad president, was born Jan. 15, 1833, in Montgomery county, Pa. Since 1880 he has been president of the Pennsylvania railroad; and, is also president of numerous other railroad corporations.
Roberts, George Litch
lawyer, was born Dec. 30, 1836, in Boston, Mass.
He is one of the foremost patent lawyers in the United States.
Roberts, Howard
sculptor, was born April 9, 1843, in Philadelphia. He opened a studio in Philadelphia, and produced there his first work of note, the statuette Hester and Pearl, from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Among his other works are Hypatia; Lucille, a bust; Lot's Wife, a statuette; and numerous ideal and portrait busts. His statue of Robert Fulton is in the capitol at Washington.