American physician and botanist (1801-1879).
James Watson Robbins (November 18, 1801 – January 10, 1879) was an American physician and botanist. Robbins, son of Ammi R. and Salome Robbing, of Colebrook, Connecticut, and grandson of Rev. Ammi R. Robbins, of Norfolk, Connecticut, was born in Colebrook, November 18, 1801. He graduated from Yale College in 1822. For a few months after graduation he taught in Enfield, Connecticut, and then went to Virginia, where he was similarly employed for some three years, in the family of Hon. Wm. L. Brent, and in the Peyton family at Warrenton, and at Arlington, where Robert E. Lee, afterwards general-i