Bio: George W. Roberson,  Bienville Parish Louisiana
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Kay Thompson Brown


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George W. Roberson is a lending merchant of Arcadia, La., and is a brother of
John W. Roberson, in whose sketch a history of his parents is given. 
He was born in Alabama, October 7, 1851, and received his education in the
Male Academy of Arcadia, La., and afterward completed a full course
in the Soule Business College in the city of New Orleans.  He has always
supported and befriended all good educational institutions and principles,
and is a firm believer in the compulsory education of the rising generation. 
When he commenced life for himself, it was at the age of eighteen years,
and at the bottom of the ladder, for all that he possessed, in the way of
capital, was a pair of willing hands, an industrious disposition and good
business tact, with which to accomplish the journey through life.  

He first became a salesman in a general store in Arcadia, and afterward
followed the same occupation for two years in Corsicana, Tex., then returned
home on account of ill health, soon after engaging in business for himself, on
the Ouachita River, at Trenton, but in 1883 established his present business
in Arcadia, in partnership with J. L. Baker, who is now one of his associates
in business.  They commenced operations in a wooden structure 30x75 feet, and
in 1887 erected on the former site an excellent and commodious brick
establishment 33x90 feet, which they are now occupying.  Their trade extends
throughout parishes of Bienville, Claiborne, Winn, and some from Lincoln. 
They are liberal purchasers, and have at all times watched the interests and
wants of their many patrons, and at all times carry a full line of prints,
domestics, boots and shoes, in fact all kinds of dry goods, besides groceries
and queensware, and have been engaged in purchasing considerable cotton. 
These gentlemen are well own as men of integrity and sterling worth and fully
deserve the large patronage which they command.  

Mr. Roberson was married in œ~ray, 1581, Miss Willie Williamson, who was born
in Bienville Parish, La, in 1862, her education being received in Mount
Lebanon College.  They have three daughters: Blanche (aged seven years, an
attendant of the Arcadia Academy), Leonie (aged five years) and Georgia (aged
three years).  

Mr. Roberton has always been a Democrat, and has endeavored at all times, to
vote for men of principle and honor, his first presidential vote being cast
for Horace Greeley. He is a member of Arcadia Lodge the A. F. & A. M., in
which he is a Master Mason, and for the past ten years he has been an ardent
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South being one of the stewards in
the same.  He is very well fixed, financially, and he and his partner, besides
owning the large business building which they occupy, own the Arcadia State
Bank building, and a valuable vacant lot.  Mr. Roberson has a pleasant and
commodious dwelling house, and besides is considerably interested in real
estate in the parish.  


He and his wife expect to make Arcadia their future home, where she is an
earnest member of the Missionary Baptist Church, and both highly esteemed.