[5] His father built the Burnside Mansion in New Orleans,[6] nicknamed the Robb's Folly, in the Garden District, which later became one of the first buildings of the newly founded Newcomb College until it was demolished in 1954.

[7] His father's prominent business in New Orleans attracted the attention of Queen Isabella II of Spain and, with her, he formed a partnership and purchased the Havana Gas Works in Cuba.

[2] Eugénie de Montijo, Empress consort of the French attended the wedding which was held at the Tuileries Palace in Paris.

[10][11] He attended L'Institut Sillig in Vevey, Churchill's Military School in Ossining,[12] and Harvard University,[1] graduating with the Class of 1866.

Mr. Robb has withstood all these jobs, big and little, and has endeavored to have the parks administered so that the people of New York can get the greatest possible enjoyment and benefit out of them.

[1]An active member of the Democratic National Convention of 1884 and 1888, he put former New York Governor and the President Grover Cleveland's name forward in 1888, which led to Cleveland recapturing the Democratic nomination in the 1888 presidential election (of which Republican Benjamin Harrison eventually emerged victorious).

[1] After retiring from politics in 1888, Robb focused on charitable causes, serving as the president of the Society for Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents which conducts the House of Refuge on Randall's Island.

[12] He also served as the secretary of the American Museum of Natural History and was vice president of the Union Club of the City of New York for many years.

She was the older sister of John Eliot Thayer (1862–1933), an amateur ornithologist,[16] a granddaughter of Stephen Van Rensselaer IV and a great-granddaughter of New York Lt. Gov.