From:   Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Marshall Lake [mlake@mlake.net]
Sent:   Sunday, September 30, 2007 1:34 PM
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Subject:    [SPAM] [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Chandler ROBBINS


Partial transcription of a wallboard at the Four Corners Monument (NM, UT,
CO, AZ) ...

quote

Historical Sketch Four Corner

1868 - Darling's terminal monument, his Astronomical Monument No. 11, for
the intersection of the 109th Meridian West from Greenwich was placed at
his station 331st Mi. Cor. plus 60.00 chs.

1875 - Chandler Robbins, U. S. Surveyor and Astonomer, having derived a
new longitude determination measured West from Wilson Peak (Shiprock) in
northwesterly New Mexico, placed the intersection with the boundary at
Darling Mi. Cor. 330 plus 8.54 chs., Robbins erected a substantial stone
monument appropriately marked to identify the Corner of Four States. This
became his initial point for the survey of the meridian running South on
the establishment of the boundary between New Mexico and Arizona.

unquote

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From:   Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com on behalf of july37 [july37@cox.net]
Sent:   Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:15 PM
To: Robbinsfamilysouthjersey@yahoogroups.com
Subject:    [SPAM] Re: [Robbinsfamilysouthjersey] Chandler ROBBINS

Marshall,

Chandler Robbins may be the same man who founded Robbins & Myers Inc. in Springfield, Ohio about 1878. He was a soldier, surveyor & astronomer, born in Ohio & served in the Civil War. I don't know his Robbins ancestry. He could have living descendants.

                          Sara