Robbins Battell Anderson was born on June 15, 1877, in Matawan, New Jersey. He graduated from Yale in 1899 and from Harvard Law School in 1903. Anderson joined the Honolulu-based law firm of Hatch and Ballou that eventually dissolved and was reorganized under the name of Frear, Prosser, Anderson and Marx. He served as attorney for the Territorial Food Commission of Hawaii until 1918, when he came to Washington, D.C., as legal advisor of the Insular and Foreign Division of the American Red Cross. Anderson died on April 9, 1968, in Falls Church, Virginia.
From the description of Robbins Battell Anderson journals, 1896-1963 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702191737