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Residence: Webber Pond Road, Vassalboro, Maine;
1913 (address while at Brewster Academy:) c/o Elder [Mark] Stevens, Wolf[e]boro, New Hampshire [postcard from Mabel Smiley, postmarked 02 June 1913];
East Vassalboro, Maine on 12 January 1922.
Education:
Riverside Grammar School, Vassalboro, Maine
Fall 1912 to Spring 1916 - Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. There Maurice played football, and was a member (by Feb. 1915) of Delta Chapter of the Fraternity of Omicron Delta.
Fall 1916 - University of Maine at Orono (only this one semester).
Church affiliation: East Vassalboro [Maine] Friends Meeting [Quaker].
Occupations: salesman for Sunshine Biscuit Company; farmer.
His place of death: Thayer Hospital, Waterville, Maine.
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Correspondence of the Pierce, Smiley and Robbins Families of Vassalboro, Maine and elsewhere.
Part 1 : 1884-1904. (368 KB)
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Part 2 : 1905. (584 KB)
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Part 8 : 1912. (338 KB)
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Part 9 : 1913. (242 KB)
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Part 10 : 1914. (224 KB)
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Part 11 : 1915. (273 KB)
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Correspondence of the Starrett, Massé and Robbins Families of China an d Vassalboro, Maine.
Part 2 : 1900-1919. (58 KB)
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Part 3 : 1922. (55 KB)
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Part 4 : 1926. (64 KB)
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Correspondence of Maurice Robbins and Malvena Massé.
1920. (60 KB).
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1921 (62 KB).
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A series of three articles about Maurice and Malvena Robbins was published in 1999. The series was titled "Grampa Grew Up on a Vassalboro Farm 100 Years Ago." Each article separately titled:
[1] Robbins, Stephen L. "Grampa's First Deer." Town Line (South China, Maine), 20 March 1999, vol. 11, no. 2, p. 12.
[2] Robbins, Stephen L. "Grampa - Versus - 'The Woodchuck'. " Town Line (South China, Maine), 27 March 1999, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 12.
[3] Robbins, Stephen L. "Grampa's Night Out." Town Line (South China, Maine), 03 April 1999, vol. 11, no. 4, p. 12.
See these articles online at:
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Grampa Grew Up on a Vassalboro Farm 100 Years Ago. (13 KB).
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See another article about Malvena (Massé) Robbins:
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Good Old Golden Rule Days, by Lea Davis. (5 KB)
A story about Malvena (Massé) Robbins (born 1899 in South China, Maine ; died 1993 in East Vassalboro, Maine). Originally published in: Town Line (South China, Maine), Monday, October 21, 1991, vol. 3, no. 43, p. 3. Posted here with permission from Lea Davis. [A8Good.htm from A8Good.rtf ; added 28 March 2003]
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Notes on Maurice Robbins.
1901 Trip on the Riverside-Sidney Ferry across the Kennebec River.
About April 1992, Alma P. Robbins, age 93, had recently sent me (Steve Robbins) a poem she wrote and was trying to get published, about the Riverside ferry. While the poem is not quoted here, I can summarize from it her description of going to the ferry.
The poem is set about 1901, as Alma describes her brothers Maurice at a ge eight and Wendell at age ten. (Wendell was born in 1891, Maurice was born 22 Aug. 1893). In the fall of the year their father, Ira Robbins, took the children from their home on the Webber Pond Road in Vassalboro, crossed the Kennebec to Sidney on the ferry at Riverside, to help their "Uncle Asa" harvest his potatoes. Upon reaching the riverbank, it was necessary to call the ferryman on the opposite shore. From the crotch of a huge oak tree, several hundred years old, the father took "That Old Cow's Horn" which was black with almost a "century" of exposure to the elements. Father let each child try the horn, the result being only the sound of rushing air or a small squeak. Then father's strong blast on the horn, echoing upon the river, summoned the ferryman to drop his hoe and pole the ferry across.
Steve Robbins also has a postcard photograph of the ferry "From Riverside to Sidney" which is postmarked at Augusta, Me., Dec. 23, 1905. It was sent from Lucy A. Robbins (Mrs. Ira Robbins) of Vassalboro to her daughter Elsie M. Robbins in West Somerville, Mass.
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1913 July 19. Real photo post card [image filemane: < Grand44.jpg >] . Maurice Smiley Robbins is in the back row at the extreme right side. " taken at Northfield of the Brewster Delegates". Probably Spring of 1913 . Copy print of an original real-photo postcard. The original postcar d was probably included in Maurice Robbins' photograph album, which cam e into the possession of Gerald Robbins after Malvena Robbins' death in 1 993. (This correspondence was not a part of the Robbins correspondence w hich was found in Lucy (Smiley) Robbins' trunk in December 1985). Step hen Robbins had a copy print made, probably in the late 1970s by Elm Ci ty Photo in Waterville, Maine (or possibly in the 1990s by Troup Photo i n Toccoa, Georgia). Maurice addressed the postcard to his sister Edna ( Robbins) Hansen: "Mrs. Edwin Hanson [sic][,] 40 Union St.[,] Watertown, M ass."; it was postmarked 19 July 1913, 3 pm, at Augusta, Maine. Mauric e wrote a message on the card:
"July 19, 1913[.] Dear Edna, This is a picture taken at Northfie ld of the Brewster Delegates. We are right in to haying. Have just ma rked out half of the ten[n]is court, hope to finish soon[.] with love t o both, Maurice". In 1913 Maurice was a student at Brewster Free Acade my in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, but was home in Vassalboro, Maine for t he summer when he sent this postcard. (Stephen Robbins collection ; Gr and44).
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1917. [Source: Diary of Lucy (Smiley) Robbins, 16 December 1917.]
"Sunday. . . . . Mau[rice] went to East [Vassalboro] to see H. Cate s about draft and to Morgan’s to meet Alma, but so very cold & snowy sh e did not go."
[Steve Robbins’ note, on 13 March 2005:
H. Cates at East Vassalboro was probably Benjamin Harold Cates (w ho was called "Harold" Cates). As this was during World War One, "draf t" probably had to do with the military draft. What was the reason why M aurice had to see Harold Cates about the draft? Mr. Cates was at one t ime a Representative to the Maine Legislature; he also was a Quaker and h ad several sons who, later, were "conscientious objectors" to military s ervice during World War Two.
Maurice was in the R.O.T.C (Reserve Officer Training Corps) durin g the one semester (Fall 1916) that he was as a student at University o f Maine, Orono. Malvena told Steve Robbins (in the 1970's) that Mauric e was there for one fall semester (she did not remember which year), to s tudy agriculture, but did not have the money to continue. Malvena said t hat he and another boy lived in a shack down near the Stillwater River. M aurice brought food from the family farm in Vassalboro, and that semest er about all they had to eat was potatoes. Also while he was there, he w as in the R.O.T.C. (Reserve Officer Training Corps).
In August 2003, Maurice’s son Wallace found, in a card file recor d at the University's Alumni Office, that Maurice was considered a part o f the "class of 1920" but attended only during the year "1916-17". Ther efore it was in the Fall semester of 1916 that Maurice was a student th ere.
It would be interesting to send to National Archives for any draf t records pertaining to Maurice. Malvena said that he was rejected by t he draft board because of a physical deformity: twisted toes (one of wh ich was later surgically removed).
The University (or was it the Alumni Association?) did not forget M aurice, though, when they were publishing an alumni directory in the la te 1960s or early 1970s. Of course, Wallace was teaching there by then , so Wallace may have made sure that Maurice got listed in the director y and received a copy of it -- (but I'm not sure exactly how that all w orked out).]
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1931. [Source: Schad, James. "Town of Vassalboro Digest of Town Meet ing Minutes 1771 to 1977." Copy at Vassalboro Free Public Library, Eas t Vassalboro, Maine.]
"Annual Town Meeting -- March 9, 1931; (Vol. 6, p. 231)
41. App: Continue E. Vassalboro sidewalk [from] Priest to Robbins res. Y ES."
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1945. [Source: Robbins, Alma Pierce. "History of Vassalborough, Main e." [Lewiston, Maine : printed at Twin City Printery, 1971], p. 24.]
"In 1945 the School Board was comprised of Myron Turner, Maurice R obbins and John P. Appleton. The latter two followed in the footsteps o f their fathers and grandfathers who had served the schools fifty and o ne hundred years before them. They are gone now and their sons will ha ve to carry on."
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1958? [Source: Steve Robbins’ notes, dated 18 April 1978 at Wesley, M aine. Information was from Minerva (Sharman) Gray. In Steve’s "Sharman " file.]
W. A. Sharman went into the hospital (Thayer Hospital in Waterville, M aine). [This was about 1958?]. And shortly afterwards, Louis Massé wa s in the same hospital. So, for a while they were both in there at the s ame time. Minerva recalled, "I'd go up to visit my father every day, a nd I remember him saying one day that Louis Massé had come in his wheel chair, pushing it himself, to visit my father who had to stay in the be d all the time. He was pleased that Mr. Massé had looked him up and ca me to visit."
Minerva also said that once during that time, she walked in to see Mr. M assé, and he was sitting in his wheelchair at a small table in his room , eating dinner with his wife, and Maurice & Malvena Robbins.
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1960s. [Source: Donald H. W. Robbins to Stephen Robbins, email, Mon day 27 September 2010.] "Last Friday [i.e., 24 September 2010] the [ma ple] trees in front of the [East Vassalboro] Quaker Meeting House were t aken down, chipped up and/or cut into firewood. Today I found out why - - the two trees that Grandpa [i.e., Maurice Robbins] planted in the 196 0s were severely damaged in the Ice Storm of 1998 -- and have been dead f or many years. Branches started to fall onto the road and cars in the p arking lot on Sundays. The two larger, much older trees, one at the no rth end and the other at the south end of the lot -- were at last heavi ly rotted and breaking apart slowly over the years during wind and rain a nd heavy wet snow storms. Because of their bulk and large mass they st ayed up pretty well -- but finally met their time to come down before d amaging the roof of the Meeting House or the neighbor's house to the so uth."
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1966. [Source: Maxine (Gray) Robbins, letter to Minerva (Sharman) Gr ay, 20 October, 1966. Filed in Minerva's diary between pages for 18 Ma y 1966 and 19 May 1966.]
"Last Saturday night [i.e., 15 October 1966][,] we -- [and] Louis [Rob bins] + [his] children[,] Wally [Robbins] + [his] family[,] + Marg [sic ; i.e., Marjory (Robbins) (Feeney) Lalime] -- planned a surprise [party ] for Gram [i.e., Malvena (Massé) Robbins] + Gramp [i.e., Maurice] Robb ins -- [for] their 45th Wedding Anniversary[.] Grammie & Grampa [i.e., M alvena and Maurice] had been away + expected to be home for supper [on] S at. [i.e., Saturday] night. So we all went to the [i.e., their] house w ith food + set up a buffet table + [a] special cake + flowers + cards f or them. Also[,] we put [money] together + got them a Franklin stove[, ] [which is] something [that] they've wanted for a long time. They wer e very pleased."
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1967. [Source: Diary of Minerva (Sharman) Gary, 15 October 1967.]
"Maxine, Gerry & [their] family invited [have been] invited to Marjori e La L.'s [sic; i.e., Marjory (Robbins) (Feeney) Lalime's] to a family g et to gether [sic; i.e., get-together] for to day [sic; i.e., today][,] a s it is Maurice and Malvena's wedding anniversary. "
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