Honolulu County HI Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Robbins Battell June 15, 1877 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/hifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com July 6, 2018, 1:11 pm Source: Men of Hawaii Vol. IV Author: George F. Nellist (editor) Anderson, Robbins Battell: Attorney; member, Prosser, Anderson & Marx. Born June 15, 1877, Matawan, New Jersey, son of the Rev. James M. and Elizabeth (Robbins) Anderson; married Mary Morris Nov. 1, 1910; children, Elizabeth Bradford, Jean Mercer, Page Morris, and Mary Robbins Anderson; member University Club (past president), Y.M.C.A. (trustee, past president), Honolulu Chapter American Red Cross (executive committee), Bar Association of Hawaii (president). American Bar Association (Honolulu Council), Social Science Association, Oahu Country and Outrigger Canoe Clubs, Mayflower Society, president Hawaii School of Religion, trustee Punahou School, director Punahou Music School, warden St. Andrew's Cathedral Parish, one of the founders and member central advisory committee Institute of Pacific Relations, Law School (LL.B., 1903). Just as he was about to enter a Boston law office immediately after his graduation from the law school, he accepted an offer to come in Hawaii and enter the office of Hatch & Ballou; he has ever since remained in that firm, which now is known as Prosser, Anderson & Marx. In addition to his professional work Mr. Anderson is a director of the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., Chas. Brewer Estate, Ltd., Pahang Rubber Co., Ltd., and other Hawaiian corporations. He has also devoted much time to philanthropy and public welfare. During the World War he entered Red Cross work at Washington, D. C., becoming manager of Insular and Foreign Division of the American Red Cross. Mr. Anderson's mother was a descendant, of William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, and of other Mayflower Pilgrims, and a niece of Francis Le Baron Robbins, One of five undergraduates of Williams College who held the famous "haystack" meeting, forming the first American Foreign Missionary Society, which later sent the first missionaries to Hawaii. His father, a Presbyterian minister and educator, graduate of Williams college and Princeton Theological Seminary, at one time a professor at Williams College, was granted the honorary degree of D.D. by that institution. Mrs. Anderson is a daughter of the late Federal Judge Page Morris of Virginia and Minnesota, a distinguished jurist and Congressman. Photo: http://www.usgwarchives.net/hi/honolulu/photos/bios/anderson201gbs.jpg File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/honolulu/bios/anderson201gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/hifiles/ File size: 2.9 Kb