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CURTIS M.
ROBBINS
Well known in the newspaper and real estate fields, in both of which he has made an outstanding success, Curtis M. Robbins is now connected with the firm of Hodgkins & Barnett, pioneer dealers in real estate of Stockton. A native son of this city, Mr. Robbins was born on August 6, 1891, his parents being Henry E. and Mary T. (Marshall) Robbins, the latter a native of California. The father, who was born in Utah in 1852, came to Stockton when a young man; he was a brickmason by trade and later he became a brick and cement contractor, erecting many of the business buildings in Stockton, among them the Hubbard, occupied by Lauxen & Catts furniture store, the brick extension to the Sampson Iron Works, the first Fair Oaks school, the Santa Fe depot. and many others, continuing in this line until his death in 1908, survived by his wife and four children: Mabel C., a resident of Stockton, but who has been teaching in Honolulu; Estelle, the wife of Reed D. Bush, of El Dorado, Kans.; Percy, deceased, and Curtis M., of this sketch. Henry E. Robbins was prominent in Masonry, being a member of Morning Star Lodge No. 68, F. & A. M., of which he was master in 1887, high priest in 1884 of Stockton Chapter. No. 28, R. A. M., and a Knight Templar.
The youngest of his family, Curtis M. Robbins attended the Lafayette school and graduated .from the Stockton high school in the class of 1911. He
soon entered the advertising department of the Stockton Mail, and later with William E. Schei he published The Voice, a weekly paper. He then was with the advertising department of the Stockton Record until he enlisted for service in the U. S. Navy during the World War. He was stationed at Mare Island as a first-class yeoman, and after the war he returned to Stockton and resumed his duties on the Record. His success as a salesman there brought him to the attention of Hodgkins & Barnett, one of the old established real estate firms of Stockton, and he was offered a post with them, which he accepted, taking up his work in April, 1920, and he has been most successful in his operations in the realty business.
Mr. Robbins was married at Stockton to Miss Louise Fanning, a native daughter of San Joaquin County, and they have a son, Richard Marshall Robbins. Like his father, Mr. Robbins is active in Masonic circles, and is a member of Morning Star Lodge, No. 68, F. & A. M., is venerable master of Stockton Lodge of Perfection, A. A. S. R., belongs to Ben Ali Temple. A. A. O. N. M. S. at Sacramento, the Anteros Club, and is a director of the Kiwanis Club.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham,
George H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page 1505. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
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2012 V. Gerald
Iaquinta.
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