Robert Ellin Information
Robert Ellin, a stone and wood sculptor, was active in the United States 1867 to 1904. He was most likely born in West Yorkshire about 1838. Not much is known about his life until his association with a fellow Englishman and Yorkshireman John William Kitson. Together they entered a mahogony breakfront in the 1876 Bi-Centential juried event in which they won a prize and much acclaim.
In 1872 Robert Ellin was elected a director of the Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company located in St. George, New Brunswick, Canada. He is also noted to have carved the cherry frieze in Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts between 1872 and 1875.
In 1900 census he is noted to be living in Westchester, New York.
Robert Ellin established his firm as Robert Ellin & Co circa 1870 in NYC. He and John William Kitson joined forces in 1874 before the 1876 Bi-Centennial still as Robert Ellin and Company. In 1879 they changed the firm's name to Ellin & Kitson an architectural sculpturing formalizing their partnership with emphasis in churches. They have been noted as specialty contractors in many buildings from NYC to Boston.
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