Roberts, Elwood
educator, journalist, author, poet, was born Jan. 22, 1846, in Wilmington, Del. He received a liberal education; and for fourteen years taught in the public and private schools of Pennsylvania. Since 1882 he has been engaged in editorial work on the Norristown Herald, one of the foremost daily and weekly newspapers of the east. He is one of the founders of the Montgomery County Historical society, and is its librarian. He is the author of a series of papers on Valley Forge Camp-Ground, now being published in book form; a volume of poems entitled Lyrics of Quakerism; and he is greatly interested in genealogical research.