Contra Costa County CA Archives Biographies.....Roberts, Philip L. 1839 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 29, 2007, 3:05 pm

Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

PHILIP L. ROBERTS, Treasurer of Contra Costa County, was born in Madison County,
Ohio, May 29, 1839, a son of John, Jr., and Angeline (Lough) Roberts, father a
native of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, and mother a native of the State of Virginia.
She died when Philip was fifteen months old, and he was brought up by his
grandfather, Roberts, and remained with him until the death of the latter in
1861. Up to the age of eleven years he was in Madison County, and then one year
in Iowa, then in Chillicothe, Peoria County, Illinois, until the fall of 1852,
then in Madison County, Ohio, again, where, August 29, 1862, he enlisted in the
Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, aud joined his regiment at Louisa, Kentucky,
some time between the tenth and fifteenth of September. The regiment, commanded
by Colonel Jacob E. Taylor, was attached to General Granger's Reserve Corps, and
actively participated in the battle of Chickamauga. Concerning that action,
General Thomas, in his report, says, "It was through the arrival of General
Granger and his reserve that his army was saved." They then were engaged in
siege of Chattanooga, the memorable battle of Lookout Mountain, etc., and
passsed [sic] the ensuing winter, 1863-'64, in Nickajack Valley. About the first
of March they went to Blue Springs, Tennessee, where Sherman formed his army for
the Atlanta campaign, and where for 121 days the troops were under a constant
fire. After aiding in the fall of Atlanta they rested until Hood crossed the
Tennessee River for Nashville, After the battle of Chickamauga and siege of
Chattanooga, Mr. Roberts' regiment was attached to the Second Brigade, First
Division of the Fourth Army Corps, under General Stanley at that time, and while
at Atlanta Mr. Roberts was transferred to the Fifty-first Ohio Regiment, and was
detailed to duty in the adjutant general's office of the brigade; was there
three months, and then transferred to the subsistency department and served in
that until the close of the war. He was mustered out of service June 20, 1865,
at Nashville, and arrived home in Ohio July 3.

  In October following he went to Illinois and spent the winter there, and in
March joined his uncle at St. Louis, and went into Barton County, in the
southwestern part of that State, where he followed carpentering until the autumn
of 1866. While there he was appointed Assessor of that county, and was elected
for a second term, serving in all four years. In 1875 he came with his family to
California, arriving at Antioch, Contra Costa County, on Christmas day, and from
that time to the present has been farming what is known as the Marsh grant. In
the autumn of 1888 he was elected to his present position on the Republican ticket.

  He was married October 2, 1868, in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, to Elvira
C. Wills, a native of Macoupin County, Illinois, and they have two sons and
three daughters.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/contracosta/bios/roberts582gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/

File size: 4.1 Kb