JAMES ROBERTS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 667 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.


JAMES ROBERTS, farmer, Sec. 29; P. O. North Cape; was born in England in
1816 came to Wisconsin in 1842, and located in Racine Co. In 1846 he
married Miss E. Coad - she was born in England, and died in 1855; they
had six children. Mr. Roberts was Doorkeeper in the Senate at Madison,
Wis., in 1869, and has also served as School Clerk in his district for a
number of years; when he came to Wisconsin he was a poor man, but by
economy and industry he has gained a fine farm of 200 acres in Sec. 29;
he is a strong advocate of temperance, and has belonged to the society
for forty years.