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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.