BIO: Lewis C. ROBBINS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 880 & 881.
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  LEWIS C. ROBBINS*, general farmer and well known citizen of Knox township, 
resides on his finely cultivated and well improved farm of fifty-four acres, 
which is situated two miles southwest of Olanta, Pa.  His parents were George W. 
and Margaret E. (Bloom) Robbins.  He was born October 16, 1848, in Clearfield 
county, Pa.
  George W. Robbins was born in Dauphin county, Pa., in 1815, and went to school 
at Milton, Pa., and from there came to Pike township, Clearfield county, in 
1840.  There he married Margaret E. Bloom, a daughter of John and Susanna Bloom, 
and they lived on a small farm in Pike township until after the birth of all 
their children, eight in number, namely:  Zephaniah, Mary Jane, Lewis C., Annie, 
Eretta, Sarah, B. F., and James H.  George W. Robbins owned two acres of land in 
Pike township, on which Mrs. Isaac Caldwell now resides.  In 1869 he moved on 
the farm which is now owned by his son, Lewis C., about twenty acres of which 
was cleared, and his subsequent life was devoted to farming.  He was a member of 
the Presbyterian church at Curwensville.  In politics he was a stanch Democrat 
all his life.  His death occurred at the age of sixty-seven years and his burial 
was in the McClure cemetery, near Curwensville.
  Lewis C. Robbins attended the Robbins school in Pike township and also the 
public schools of Curwensville, after which he assisted on the home farm and 
about 1874 became the owner of his present property.  He has his land all under 
cultivation with the exception of ten acres and has erected adequate and 
substantial buildings.
  On May 11, 1876, Mr. Robbins was married to Mrs. Jennie A. (Wolfe) Frye, widow 
of William Frye and daughter of Charles and Margaret (Ambrose) Wolfe.  Mrs. 
Robbins' father was born in Dauphin county, Pa., and lost his life through 
accident, at Glen Hope, Clearfield county, at the age of fifty-six years.  His 
wife was born in Center county and died aged thirty-five years.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Wolfe had four children:  Isaac A., William A., Franklin P. and Jennie A.  They 
were members of the Presbyterian church.  By her first marriage, Mrs. Robbins 
had one daughter, Emma F., who is the wife of Thomas Williams of Wilkensburg.  
Mr. and Mrs. Williams have children, Mary Margaret, Ethel G., Mabel, Eugene, 
Dorothy, William P. and Ruth.  To Mr. and Mrs. Robbins two children have been 
born, George W. and James W.  The former married Minta Lord, and they have six 
children:  Lewis, Morris, Emma T., Eve Marie, Leata Margaret and Hazel Irene.  
George W. Robbins and family reside on the home farm.  James W. Robbins married 
May Cathcart, a daughter of Wesley and Nora Cathcart, of Knox township, and they 
have had five children:  Verda, Howard Leroy, Andrew, Arthur D., and Wesley W., 
Verda and Wesley W. being the only survivors.  William W. Robbins and family 
live in the state of Washington.
  In politics Mr. Robbins is a Democrat and he has frequently been elected to 
township offices by his fellow citizens and has served discreetly and honestly 
and with so much efficiency that on several occasions, against his will, he has 
been elected township collector, declining to serve.  He has resided on his 
present farm ever since his marriage.  He has never sold possible coal deposits.  
Mr. Robbins takes an interest in the Grange and attends its sessions at Olanta, 
having been a member for some years.  With his family he belongs to the 
Methodist Episcopal church.