Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Anderson, Robbins Battell June 15, 1877 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders. Published by The Honolulu Star Bulletin, Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ROBBINS B. ANDERSON, Attorney. Robbins Battell Anderson was born in Matawan, 
N.J., June 15, 1877, the son of the Rev. James M. and Elizabeth (Robbins) 
Anderson. His father was a Presbyterian minister and educator, at one time a 
professor at Williams College, which gave him an honorary D.D. degree. His 
mother was a descendant of William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony, and 
other Mayflower pilgrims, and a niece of Francis Le Baron Robbins, one of the 
five undergraduates of Williams College who held the famous “haystack meeting” 
and formed the first American Foreign Missionary Society which later sent the 
missionaries to Hawaii.
  Graduated from Yale in 1899 with a B.A. degree, Mr. Anderson attended 
Harvard Law School, receiving his LL.B. in 1903. He was entering a Boston law 
office, intending to practice in that city, when he accepted an offer to come 
to Honolulu to enter the office of Hatch & Ballou. He has ever since remained 
with that law firm, which is now named Frear, Prosser, Anderson & Marx.
  During the World War Mr. Anderson entered Red Cross work, going to 
Washington, D.C., where he became manager of the Insular and Foreign Division 
of the American Red Cross. He has been interested in public welfare and 
philanthropic work and has held office in organizations devoted to such 
purposes. 
  Mr. Anderson in November, 1910, married Mary Morris, daughter of the late 
Federal Judge Page Morris, of Virginia and Minnesota. They have four children, 
Elizabeth Bradford, Jean Mercer, Page Morris and Mary Robbins Anderson.
  Mr. Anderson is a director of the Hawaiian Trust Co., Ltd., Charles Brewer 
Estate, Ltd., and other Honolulu corporations and president of Pahang Rubber 
Co., Ltd. He is a member and ex-president of the University Club, ex-president 
of the Yale Alumni Association of Hawaii, director and ex-president Y.M.C.A.; 
trustee Oahu College, director Punahou Music School, warden St. Andrew’s 
Cathedral parish, member executive committee Honolulu Chapter American Red 
Cross, and member of the Honolulu Council of the American Bar Association. He 
is a member of the Social Science Association, Oahu Country and Outrigger 
Canoe Clubs, and of the Mayflower Society and Phi Beta Kappa.


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