Contra Costa County Biography

ELISHA W. ROBBINS

Transcribed by Sally Kaleta, December, 2006.

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Among the well-known residents of eastern Contra Costa County none is better and 
more favorably known than Elisha W. Robbins. He is a native of Watertown, 
Massachusetts, and his birth occurred on December 30, 1858. He is a son of James 
and Anne (Winter) Robbins, the parents of eleven children. Mr. Robbins' parents 
removed to Wisconsin, where Elisha acquired a common-school education. His 
father was a miller by trade, owning and operating a mill at Madison, Wisconsin, 
for many years. The subject of this review came to California twice before 
making his home here. He farmed in Colorado before coming to this county and he 
now owns and operates twenty-one acres, which is all set out to almonds, 
apricots, and peaches. Mr. Robbins' sister Lois also makes her home here and has 
many friends in this locality. Politically, Mr. Robbins is independent. He has 
brought his place up to a high state of cultivation and is numbered as one of 
the representative men in eastern Contra Costa County.
 
Source: "The History of Contra Costa County, California," Elms Publ. Co., 1917, 
pp. 555-556.