BIO: Edmund Wilson ROBERTS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, pages 356-357.
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  ROBERTS, EDMUND WILSON, M.D., youngest son of John Roberts, was born 
about 1806, at Washington, Pa.  He was a graduate of Yale College.  His 
brother, Dr. James Roberts, born in 1780, at Washington, first located 
at Harrisburg, subsequently removing to Peoria, Ill., where he died 
about 1834.  while at Harrisburg, his younger brother, Edmund W., came 
there and studied medicine under his care, subsequently graduating from 
the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania.  He 
afterwards located at Harrisburg, and entered upon a successful career 
in the practice of his profession.  He died at Harrisburg, November 10, 
1865, at the age of fifty-eight years.  Dr. Roberts married Caroline 
Ross, daughter of Andrew Ross and Hannah Templin, of Washington City, 
and a sister of Robert J. Ross, of Harrisburg; she died January 23, 
1877, at Newburg, N. Y.; buried at Harrisburg.  They had two children:  
Mary, died in 1867, at Harrisburg, married Rev. B. B. Leacock, D. D., 
of the Episcopal Church; Dr. Robert Ross, died April 4, 1875, at 
Harrisburg, at the age of thirty-seven, who rose to eminence in his 
profession, married Miss Foote, daughter of Judge Foote, of the State 
of New York, and they left two children.