The Twenty-Seventh Legislature of Texas: Hon. John W. Robbins, State Treasurer, son of Solomon and Amanda (Funderburgh) Robbins

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Page 20, read from the page image (the text layer reads the mother's birth year "183(5"; the image shows 1836):

HON. JOHN W. ROBBINS. Vernon. (Official Residence, Austin.)

The Hon. John W. Robbins, State Treasurer of the State of Texas, is the son of Solomon and Amanda (Funderburgh) Robbins, who were both natives of the State of Alabama; the father born in Montgomery County in 1818, and the mother in Autauga County, November 22, 1836. They were married in 1849, and on November 12, 1852, their son, the subject of this sketch, was born in the county of Talladega, Alabama. In 1859 his parents came to Texas and settled in Smith County, where Mr. Robbins was reared, receiving a good common school education, which he supplemented extendedly by a course of private and home study. In 1877 he was married to Miss Sarah Long, daughter of the late Captain R. B. Long of Tyler, Texas. Soon thereafter, locating at Tyler, he engaged in contracting and building as a principal business pursuit […] As a member of the firm of contractors, Robbins & Long, Mr. Robbins has erected many splendid monuments […] Of these may be mentioned the National Hotel, the City Hall, the North Side Public School building, and many others of the largest and best buildings of the city of Tyler. Though highly successful in a business way, on account of failing health, in 1899 he removed from Tyler to west Texas, going to Vernon, in Wilbarger County, near which place he established a farm and ranch […]

[…] In 1894 he was elected to represent the 103d legislative district, composed of the counties of Wilbarger and Wichita, in the Twenty-fourth Legislature. Two years later he was again returned to the house of the Twenty-fifth Legislature. […] In 1898 he was elected to the office of State Treasurer, and being re-elected in 1900, is now serving his second term as State Treasurer.

Page 21 (text layer): "[He is a] Master Mason and a member of the M. E. Church South. As a church official he has filled the various positions of steward, Sunday-school superintendent, and general conference delegate."

Citation: "Hon. John W. Robbins," in Niel John McArthur, ed., The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas, 1901 (Austin: B. C. Jones & Co., printers, 1901), biographical sketches, 20–21, with a portrait; Internet Archive item twentyseventhleg00mcar (Library of Congress copy), scan n41, https://archive.org/details/twentyseventhleg00mcar/page/n41/mode/1up?q=Funderburgh. A second scan of the same book is item twenty-seventh-legislature-and-state-administration-of-tx-1901.