Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Edward D. Robbins
Lawyer
Centurion, 1898–1932
Proposed by
Howard Mansfield and Henry W. Farnam
Howard Mansfield and Henry W. Farnam
born
October 20, 1853
Wethersfield, Connecticut
Wethersfield, Connecticut
died
October 7, 1932
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
elected
May 7, 1898
Age forty-four
Age forty-four
buried
Cedar Hill Cemetery,
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford, Connecticut
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Century Memorial
Edward Denmore Robbins had for half a dozen years occupied the chair of jurisprudence at Yale when his grasp of law, both in exposition and practice, brought him the invitation to become official counsel to the New Haven Railway. His advice shaped much of that company’s ambitious and intricate policy of railway consolidation in New England. He served for several decades on the Connecticut Board of Education, whose development of its present system of state schools was largely due to his initiative.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook
