Roberts, Charles B
lawyer, legislator, jurist, congressman, was born April 19, 1842, in Uniontown, Md. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and graduated at Calvert college of New Windsor, Md. During 1874-78 he was a member of congress from the second Maryland congressional district. For four years he was attorney general of Maryland; afterward became associate judge of the court of appeals of Maryland; and subsequently chief judge of the fifth judicial circuit of Maryland.
ROBERTS, CHARLES GEORGE DOUG- LAS, littérateur, author, poet, was born in 1860 in New Brunswick. He is a popular Canadian poet and writer, formerly a professor of literature in King's college, Windsor, Nova Scotia, and in recent years a resident of New York city. His work in verse includes, Orion, and Other Poems; in Divers Tones; The Book of the Native. His prose comprises, Earth's Enigmas, a collection of short stories; The Forge in the Forest, an Acadian Romance; A History of Canada; Around the Camp Fire; Canadian Guide Book; Reube Dare's Shad Boat; Raid from Beausejour, and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage.