Yavapai County AZ Archives Biographies.....Roberts, Joseph I. 1865 - living in 1896
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Author: McFarland & Poole

p. 503-504

  JOSEPH I. ROBERTS. A daily provision for the material wants of life, which
means an appeasing of that craving creature of man known as the appetite, is one
of the most important necessities of existence. Without the aid of the tradesmen
the whole public would find itself in a tangled dilemma from which extrication
would be impossible. Meats are the most necessary articles of diet and the
market is one of the prime necessities of life and one of the most successful
followers of this calling in Prescott, Arizona Territory, is Joseph I. Roberts,
who has been engaged in his present line of work since April, 1892. He came from
the far away land of Australia, his natal city being Melbourne, where he was
born January 2, 1865, a son of Edward J. Roberts. He was left motherless when a
small child, and after a number of years' residence in Australia he was brought
by his father to America, and for some time thereafter lived in Junction City,
Kan., where he acquired a practical common school education. In 1875 he came to
Prescott with his father, who was a carpenter and wheelwright by trade, and here
continued to attend school for some time. In 1887 he secured a position with
Bashford & Burmister, which he continued to hold for about a year and a half, at
the end of which time he decided to open a store of his own, and at Howell's,
twelve miles from Prescott, he embarked in the general mercantile business,
continuing for about eighteen months, then became connected with the Commercial
Mining Company at Copper Basin, where he was employed about three months, then
was eight months longer with this company in Prescott. Mr. Roberts has been
reasonably successful in his business ventures, and besides his comfortable and
substantial residence and slaughter house owns an excellent little ranch of
forty acres two miles out from the city. From 1882 to 1887 he was quite
extensively engaged in the cattle business about forty miles east of Prescott on
the Sycamore River, but has found his present occupation to be both profitable
and congenial. On the 6th of January, 1889, he was united in marriage with Miss
Belle Jackson of California. Socially he is a member of the Woodmen of the
World, Lodge No. 3, of Prescott. He is one of the substantial business men of
the city, and, although young in years, is looked upon as one of her most
reliable citizens.


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A Historical and Biographical Record of the Territory of Arizona
Published by
McFarland & Poole, Chicago, 1896

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