A. C. Roberts Biography


	This biography appears on page 1894 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	A. C. ROBERTS, one of the prominent citizens of Day county, is 
a native of the old Buckeye state, having been born in the city of 
Oberlin, Ohio. When the subject was a child his parents removed to 
Livingston county, Illinois, where he was reared to maturity, having 
grown up on a farm and having duly availed himself of the advantages of 
the public schools, including the completion of a high-school course. 
After leaving school he devoted two years to the study of law, and was 
admitted to practice in all of the courts of the state of Illinois, and 
he has a license to practice in all the courts of South Dakota. 

	In 1876 Mr. Roberts engaged in the active practice of law in 
Illinois, continuing to follow the work of his profession for two 
years, and thereafter being engaged in farming in that state, while he 
was later engaged in the mercantile business for one year. Later he 
came to South Dakota and took up land in Homer township, Day county, 
which he improved and placed under effective cultivation, having one of 
the valuable landed estates of the county. He continued to be actively 
and successfully engaged in farming and stock growing until 1900, when 
he took up his residence in Pierpont, where he has since carried on a 
prosperous enterprise in the handling of grain, coal and lumber. In 
politics Mr. Roberts maintains an independent attitude. In 1893 he was 
a member of the state senate, having been elected on the ticket of the 
People's party. He and his wife are valued and zealous members of the 
Presbyterian church in Pierpont, and he is an elder in the same at the 
present time. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, the 
Modern Woodmen of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen.

	Mr. Roberts was married to Miss Rachel Frances Chambers, who was 
born in Lowell, Lasalle county, Illinois, and they have three children.