High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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.