Lawyer
Centurion, 1898–1932
Born 20 October 1853 in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Died 7 October 1932 in New Haven, Connecticut
Buried Cedar Hill Cemetery
, Hartford, Connecticut
Proposed by Howard Mansfield and Henry W. Farnam
Elected 7 May 1898 at age forty-four
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
