Husband Hon. Edward Everett Robbins 1 2 3
Born: 27 Sep 1859 - North Huntingdon Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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Father: Joseph Robbins (1824-Aft 1906) 1 4 5
Mother: Rachel Gordon Robbins ( -1864) 1 6 7
Marriage: 17 Dec 1897 4
• Additional Image: Edward E. Robbins.
Wife Luella Stauffer Moore 4 8
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Father: John William Moore (1837-1893) 9 10 11 12 13
Mother: Elizabeth Stauffer ( -Aft 1918) 8 13 14 15
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1 M Edward E. Robbins 4
Born: 2 Dec 1900 4
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2 M William M. Robbins 4
Born: 26 Mar 1902 4
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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Edward Everett Robbins
He was born in September, 1861. [HWC 1906 II, 44]
He attended the common schools, pursued his academic studies and fitted for college at Elder's Ridge academy and the Normal school of Indiana, Pennsylvania. On September 7, 1877, he entered the freshman class of Washington and Jefferson college and was one of the first ten of his class of forty-five members which was graduated from that noted institution of learning on June 26, 1881. He was president of the class in college to which he belonged and delivered an oration at commencement on the "Irish Land Question." In January, 1882, he entered the office of John F. Wentling of Greensburg as a student of law and after taking the full course of Columbia Law school, New York City, was admitted to the Westmoreland County bar April 8, 1884. In 1884 he became assistant secretary of the republican county committee and the next year as chairman he conducted the campaign with such political sagacity and so successfully that Westmoreland county, for the first time, gave a majority for the republican State ticket and recorded 461 votes more for Col. Quay than for his opponent for State treasurer. In 1886 Mr. Robbins was nominated by 1365 majority for district attorney but was defeated. In 1888 he was given the republican nomination for the State senate and after a long and closely contested campaign was elected to represent the Thirty-ninth Senatorial district of Pennsylvania, composed of the county of Westmoreland, for a term of four years. At the time of his election and induction into the senate he was the youngest but one of the members of that honorable body.
He began his education in the public schools in Robbins Station, Pennsylvania, pursued advanced branches in Elders Ridge Academy, and entered Washington and Jefferson College, from which he was a graduate in 1881, at the age of twenty, with the degree of master of arts, being sixth in a class of thirty-six. He prepared for his chosen profession in the law department of Columbia University, New York, and graduated in 1884, being admitted the same year to the bar of Westmoreland County. In the following year he was nominated for district attorney. He was elected to the state senate in 1888, and served in that body for a term of six years. Mr. Robbins introduced and secured the passage of the bill appropriating five thousand dollars to the Childrens' Aid Society, thus securing a home for that institution. This was the first state aid for any purpose by the people of Westmoreland. He also introduced the law providing for free text books in the public schools, and was chairman of the judiciary committee of the senate. He was especially active in the movement for equalization of taxes and the enactment of a law for this purpose.
During the fifty-fifth congress the Dingley tariff bill was enacted when the coal and iron schedules were under consideration in the house. Mr. Robbins addressed the committee of the whole with much force and success. His work in behalf of a protective tariff was both brilliant and able. His work for Cuban independence and speeches for that cause were widely read and commanded attention. He visited the island of Cuba and understood the conditions there. Mr. Robbins was one of the three members of congress who volunteered and entered the army at the outbreak of hostilities with Spain and was commissioned captain and quartermaster First Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps, May 14, 1898.
In politics he was a Republican, and bore an active part in supporting the principles and candidates of the party. When the Spanish-American war came on he offered his services to the government, and was assigned to duty as quartermaster with the rank of captain on the staff of General John A. Wily, commander of the First Brigade, Third Division, First Army Corps, at Camp Thomas, Georgia, by special order No. 143, issued from the adjutant-general's office at Washington. Mr. Robbins had long been in the National Guard of Pennsylvania, serving as private, lieutenant, major, brigade quartermaster, and commissary general of the state on the staff of Governor Stone. This experience was of great value to him in the Spanish-American war, and he was detailed to the special duty of equipping and shipping troops to the front. His success brought him a promotion, and August 21, 1898, by special order 196 he was made a chief quartermaster with the rank of major of United States Volunteers, and placed in charge of the transport "Seneca," and sent with United States commissioners, Admiral Schley and Gordon to Porto Rico. He served at Ponce, San Juan, Santiago; was in charge of the United States transports "Mobile," "Chester," and "Grant." After the conclusion of peace, Quartermaster-General Luddington offered him a commission as major in the regular army, but he declined and tendered his resignation and was honorably discharged by special order 243 of the adjutant-general, issued from Washington, receiving from the secretary of war, November 14, 1898, specially commending his services.
With a high standing in his profession, Mr. Robbins cared for a large and important personal practice and was also solicitor for the Baltimore and Ohio and the Ligonier Valley Railroad companies, and professional adviser for various corporations with which he was identified, and which were large commercial and financial factors in the business of his city and county. He was president of the Garrett Coal Company, organized the Pittsburg and Baltimore Coal Company, a director in the Safe Deposit and Trust Company, of Greensburg, the Wilmerding National Bank of Wilmerding, Connellsville Basin Coke Company, and a stockholder in other banks and industrial corporations, and in the Tribune Press Publishing Company, of Greensburg, a member of various clubs\emdash the Americus, the Duquesne and the University. In religion he was a Presbyterian, and he was president of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian church of Greensburg.