Bio of Roberts, Francis Hughes, M.D. (b.1831) Wabasha Co., MN
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Roberts, Francis Hughes, M.D. (page 493), for nearly forty years a
resident of Plainview, of which village he was one of the most highly
esteemed citizens, was born in Franklin County, Indiana, June 23, 1831. He
spent the years of childhood, youth and early manhood in Indiana and Ohio,
where he also taught school for nine years. On October 5, 1858, he was
married at Moores Hill, Dearborn County, Ind., to Helen Mars Perrine, and
at about the same time he took up the study of medicine, being graduated
from the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College, February 28, 1861. In May,
1868, he came to Wabasha County, Minnesota, settling in Plainview, where
he continued in the practice of his profession until a short time before
his death on March 6, 1908. He passed away at the home of his daughter
near Rochester, being advanced in his seventy-eighth year. His funeral
services and interment took place in Plainview, the Rev. G. H. Gamble,
pastor of the Baptist church at Rochester, conducting the services in the
church, while those at the grave were conducted by the Odd Fellows' lodge,
of which Dr. Roberts had for some years been a prominent member. Such a
brief biographical outline as the above, however, does scant justice to
the life and work of this beloved physician, a significant testimony to
which was seen in the large concourse of people who assembled to pay the
last tribute of respect to his memory. To many of these he had been not
merely a physician but a friend and benefactor. It was owing to his
generous nature and kindly sympathy for his patients that he failed to
accumulate property, for it was his frequent custom to donate a whole or
part of his bill when he knew or suspected that the payment would prove a
hardship. But he left as a legacy to his children and friends the memory
of a true Christian life spent in ministering to others. For 52 years he
had been a faithful member of the Baptist church, and in all his relations
as husband, father, friend, man and citizen, he attained an ideal
standard, based on those Christian principles which he not only professed
but practiced. For exactly 25 years and 18 hours before his death Dr.
Roberts had been a widower, his beloved wife Helen having passed away
March 6, 1883. They were the parents of eight children, six of whom
survived their father, and were present at his funeral, namely: Mrs.
Carrie H. Woodruff, Mrs. S. T. Bigelow and Mrs. F. Domke, of Rochester;
Mrs. A. Searles, of Elgin; A. C. Roberts, of Hammond, and Edward H.
Roberts, of Newburg, N. D. Dr. Roberts also left three brothers: Dr.
Samuel Roberts, of Lafayette, Ind. Ambrose Roberts, of Chicago, and
William Roberts, of Andersonville, Ind.