Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis
Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 124-125. Graves Co.

HON. J.E. ROBBINS

     Hon. J.E. Robbins, ex-circuit court judge and one of the most
prominent of Kentucky lawyers and jurists, is a resident of the city of
Mayfield and a native of Graves county.  Judge Robbins was born August 4,
1854.  He is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Shelton) Robbins.  The father
was born in Humphreys county, Tennessee, and died in Graves county,
Kentucky, February 14, 1873, aged sixty-two years.  The mother was born in
Butler county, Kentucky, and came to Graves county with her parents in
childhood.  Her father later removed to Weakley county, Tennessee, and
became a Primitive Baptist preacher.
     Hon. J.E. Robbins was reared on the farm and after obtaining a fair
literary education took up the study of law.  He began his professional
career in 1878, at Mayfield.  He soon gained a good clientage and the
reputation of being an able lawyer.  He was elected county judge, and in
1847 was elected judge of the circuit court for the first judicial
district.  He served acceptably as circuit judge till January, 1903, when
he resigned to resume the practice of law in Mayfield.
     In politics he is a leader among Democrats.  He and wife are members
of the Christian church.  He was married in 1879 to Miss Eva Chowning.

Robbins Shelton Chowning
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Humphreys-TN Butler-KY Weakley-TN

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