Los Angeles County, CA, Biographies

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G. W. ROBBINS, 
 
upholsterer and manufacturer of mattresses, lounges and Robbins' Patent Bed 
Lounge, No. 19 New Depot street, Los Angeles, was born in the State of Maine, 
December 29, 1840. When he was eighteen years of age his parents removed to 
Wisconsin and he learned his trade there. After living in the Western States 
fifteen years, he came to California and located in Los Angeles, in 1875. After 
following his trade some years, he established his present business on First 
street in 1882, and the following year moved to Spring street. The firm was G. 
W. Robbins & Co. for two years, and then Mr. Robbins bought the interest of his 
partner and removed to Upper Main street, and remained there two years, when he 
moved to his present location on his own premises, and erected his factory, 
giving employment during the busy season to twenty or thirty hands. He does all 
kinds of upholstering, parlor furniture and mattress work, and manufactures all 
the goods he sells. He buys all his stock from first hands, and is enabled to 
compete with Eastern upholsterers, and sells goods to the trade only. He is the 
pioneer manufacturing upholsterer in Los Angeles, and has built up a large 
established trade. He is the patentee and sole manufacturer of Robbins' Patent 
Bed Lounge, an article of furniture which has become very popular in the trade, 
and has gained a wide reputation. Mr. Robbins married Mrs. Fletcher, of 
Michigan, and they have three children.
 
An Illustrated History of Los Angeles County, California �  Chicago, The Lewis 
Publishing Company, 1889   Page 624
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler