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词条 Henry Asher Robbins
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Society life 

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

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| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
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| occupation = Founder of the Waltham Watch Company
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Henry Asher Robbins (1829 – January 21, 1914) was an American manufacturer who was prominent member of New York society during the Gilded Age.

Early life

Robbins was born in 1829 in Berlin, Connecticut. His father was the pastor of the Kensington Congregational Church in Kensington, Connecticut for forty-three years.[1]

Robbins was a direct descendant of Asher Robbins, the United States Senator from Rhode Island.[2][3]

Career

Together with his brother Royal E. Robbins, he founded the Waltham Watch Company, which merged with Robbins, Appleton & Co., a watch importing company based out of Boston that owned the Waltham, Massachusetts based American Watch Company.[1]

Society life

In 1892, both Robins and his wife were both included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.[4][5] Conveniently, 400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom.[6]

Personal life

In 1866, Robbins married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pelham Bend ({{Circa|1845}}–1933).[7] Lizzie was the sister of prominent banker George H. Bend.[8] Together, they were the parents of two children, a son and a daughter:[9]

  • Maud Robbins (d. 1955), who married Harry Whitney McVickar (1860–1905), in 1891.[1][10][11]
  • Henry "Harry" Pelham Robbins (1874–1946),[12], who graduated from Columbia University in 1893 and became an architect. He married Emily Frances Welles (1888–1962),[13] the daughter of Benjamin Welles and sister of Sumner Welles, the Undersecretary of State in the Roosevelt administration.[14] Emily and Sumner were grand-nieces and grand-nephews of Caroline Astor.

The Robbins built "Asher House" in Southampton, New York designed by Grosvenor Atterbury.[1]

Robbins died of pneumonia[15] at his apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 21, 1914.[16] His widow died at her residence, 540 Park Avenue in New York, in July 1933.[20] Her funeral was held at St. Andrew's Dune Church in Southampton.[17]

References

1. ^1 2 3 {{cite book |last1=Spanburgh |first1=Sally |title=Southampton Cottages of South Main Street, The: The Original Hamptons Summer Colony |date=2015 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781626192911 |page=143 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4TkCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA143&lpg=PA143 |accessdate=7 November 2018 |language=en}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=ROBBINS, Asher - Biographical Information |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000297 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |accessdate=7 November 2018}}
3. ^{{cite book |last1=Clay |first1=Henry |title=The Papers of Henry Clay: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824 |date=1963 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0813130476 |page=661 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p_JsCMUQK04C&pg=PA661&lpg=PA661 |accessdate=7 November 2018 |language=en}}
4. ^{{cite news|last1=McAllister|first1=Ward|title=THE ONLY FOUR HUNDRED {{!}} WARD M'ALLISTER GIVES OUT THE OFFICIAL LIST. HERE ARE THE NAMES, DON'T YOU KNOW, ON THE AUTHORITY OF THEIR GREAT LEADER, YOU UNDER- STAND, AND THEREFORE GENUINE, YOU SEE.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1892/02/16/108210917.pdf|accessdate=5 October 2017|work=The New York Times|date=16 February 1892|language=en}}
5. ^{{cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Jerry E. |title=The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age |date=2000 |publisher=Random House Incorporated |isbn=9780847822089 |page=225 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLwMAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=13 June 2018 |language=en}}
6. ^{{cite book|last1=Keister|first1=Lisa A.|title=Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way|date=2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521536677|page=36|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dAtJf1hmAUC&pg=PA36|accessdate=20 October 2017|language=en}}
7. ^{{cite web |title=Mrs. Henry Asher Robbins (ca. 1845-1933) |url=https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibit/mrs-henry-asher-robbins-ca-1845-1933 |website=nyhistory.org |publisher=New-York Historical Society |accessdate=7 November 2018}}
8. ^{{cite news|title=BENJAMIN WELLES DIES OF PNEUMONIA; Father of Assistant Secretary of State Was Descendant of Colonial Settlers.|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/12/27/97312299.pdf|accessdate=January 14, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=December 27, 1935}}
9. ^{{cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Richard Henry |last2=Stiles |first2=Henry Reed |last3=Mott |first3=Hopper Striker |last4=Totten |first4=John Reynolds |last5=Forest |first5=Louis Effingham De |title=The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record |date=1894 |publisher=New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y5syAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA6&lpg=RA1-PA6 |accessdate=7 November 2018 |language=en}}
10. ^{{cite book|last1=McVickar|first1=Edward|last2=Breed|first2=William Constable|title=Memoranda relating to the McVickar family in America|date=September 1906|location=New York|url=https://archive.org/details/memorandarelatin00mcvi|accessdate=12 May 2017}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=A DAY OF NOTABLE UNIONS; BRILLIANT WEDDINGS IN THIS CITY AND WASHINGTON. MISS MAUD ROBBINS MARRIES MR. HARRY WHITNEY M'VICKAR AND MISS FLORENCE AUDENREID BECOMES THE COUNTESS DIVONNE.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1891/01/15/archives/a-day-of-notable-unions-brilliant-weddings-in-this-city-and.html|accessdate=12 May 2017|work=The New York Times|date=15 January 1891}}
12. ^{{cite news|title=H.P. ROBBINS DIES; PHILANTHROPIST, 71; Columbia Trustee, President of Memorial Hospital 12 Years --Civic, Educational Leader|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/03/21/archives/hp-robbins-dies-philanthropist-71-columbia-trustee-president-of.html|accessdate=24 January 2018|work=The New York Times|date=21 March 1946}}
13. ^{{cite news|title=Mrs. Harry P. Robbins|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/04/24/archives/mrs-harry-p-robbins.html|accessdate=24 January 2018|work=The New York Times|date=24 April 1962}}
14. ^{{cite news|title=MISS EMILY WELLES A BRIDE.; Mrs. Astor's Grandniece Married in Grace Church to H.P. Robbins.|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1908/04/23/archives/miss-emily-welles-a-bride-mrs-astors-grandniece-married-in-grace.html|accessdate=24 January 2018|work=The New York Times|date=23 April 1908}}
15. ^{{cite news |title=Obituary 1 -- No Title |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/01/23/100297867.pdf |accessdate=7 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=January 23, 1914}}
16. ^{{cite news |title=HENRY ASHER ROBBINS |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/01/22/100415840.pdf |accessdate=7 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=January 22, 1914}}
17. ^1 {{cite news |title=ROBBINS |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/22/99722445.pdf |accessdate=8 November 2018 |work=The New York Times |date=July 22, 1933 |language=en}}

External links

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  • Lizzie at the Vanderbilt Ball
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