Andrew Bonney Robbins
Andrew Bonney Robbins (April 27, 1845 – June 16, 1910) was an American entrepreneur, American Civil War, civil war veteran, and real estate developer in the pioneer period of Minneapolis. The town of Robbinsdale, Minnesota is named in his honor. At the age of 30, he was elected to the Minnesota Senate, state senate, being the youngest member of that body at the time. Early life and education He was born in Phillips, Maine, April 27, 1845, his parents being Daniel and Mary (Shaw) Robbins, the latter a granddaughter of Captain Abraham Shaw, who was a soldier of the American Revolutionary War and a descendant of John Howland, one of the Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony), Pilgrims who came to the new world on the ''Mayflower''. The father was a representative businessman of Phillips, Maine, possessing a considerable estate and making his home in New England until 1855, when he brought his family to what was then the far west, settling at Anoka, Minnesota, Anoka, in the Minnesota Territory. ...
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