ROBBINS, WILLIAM EDWIN: 1845-1919.
Born near Paoli, Ind., on Mar. 8, 1845, William Edwin Robbins graduated from De Pauw University in 1868, receiving the A.M. degree in 1871.
After teaching in Iowa and California for two years and serving as a Methodist Episcopal pastor in Indiana for two more years, in 1872 he went as a missionary to India, where he spent most of the remainder of his life. He married Alice Ellen Miles in Bombay, India, on Mar. 1, 1876. He served for a time as acting editor of THE BANNER OF ASIA.
The Rev. Mr. Robbins died in Los Angeles on Sept. 15, 1919.
Information from De Pauw University's Alumnal Record, 1920.
- Hand-Book of India and British Burmah.
Cincinnati, 1883.
- Outlines of Christian Evidences.
- To Sunrise and Back.
