Asher Robbins [SEP] position held
Asher Robbins
Asher Robbins (October 26, 1761February 25, 1845) (also known as Ashur Robbins) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Biography.
Born in Wethersfield, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale College in 1782, was a tutor in Rhode Island College (now Brown University) from 1782 to 1790, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1792 and began practice in Providence, Rhode Island. He moved to Newport in 1795, was appointed United States district attorney in 1812,
Benjamin Welles and sister of Sumner Welles, the Undersecretary of State in the Roosevelt administration. Emily and Sumner were grand-nieces and grand-nephews of Caroline Astor.
The Robbins built "Asher House" in Southampton, New York designed by Grosvenor Atterbury.
Robbins died of pneumonia at his apartment in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on January 21, 1914. His widow died at her residence, 540 Park Avenue in New York, in July 1933. Her funeral was held at St. Andrew's