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Calvin Robbins was born in Connecticut in 1801. He came to Glens Falls in the mid 1820's as a blacksmith. His blacksmith shop building still exists today in Glens Falls as the oldest building in the city. In 1827 he was a partner with Mr. Putnam. By 1835 he had his own shop making horse shoes, hinges, barrel bands and wheel rims. From 1835 -37 he was poundkeeper. (Poundkeeper was someone who kept a pound, or enclosure, hence, a dogcatcher...but at that time any stray animal was fair game: pigs, cows horses, etc.) He married his wife Polly and had seven children. Two sons and one daughter died as children, but Helen, Marion, Elizabeth and Louis lived into adulthood. He was a member of the first Board of Trustees in 1839 after Glens Falls was incorporated as a village. In 1843 he was an Assessor for the village. He was "respectable and a respected member of the community." His daughter Marion married Darnin (sp?) Sherman, a real estate operator.
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