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Roberts, Howard

sculptor, was born April 9, 1843, in Philadelphia. He opened a studio in Philadelphia, and produced there his first work of note, the statuette Hester and Pearl, from Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. Among his other works are Hypatia; Lucille, a bust; Lot's Wife, a statuette; and numerous ideal and portrait busts. His statue of Robert Fulton is in the capitol at Washington.

Roberts, Isaac Philips

professor of agriculture, was born July 24, 1833, in East Varick, N. Y. He is professor of agriculture in and director of the College of Agriculture and experimental station of the Cornell university. He is also on the editorial staff of the Country Gentleman.

Roberts, James Booth

actor, author, was born Sept. 27, 1818, in New Castle, Del. In 1851 he went to England and played at Drury Lane theater, London, in the characters of Sir Giles Overreach, King Lear, and Richard III. wrote a version of Goethe's Faust which he produced in Philadelphia, playing Mephistopheles. He

Roberts, Job

agriculturist, jurist, author, was born March 23, 1757, near Gwynedd, Pa. He was among the first to introduce and breed merino sheep in Pennsylvania, and promoted the manufacture of silk. He published The Pennsylvania Farmer, being a Selection from the Most Approved Treatises in Husbandry.

He died Aug. 20, 1851, near Gwynedd, Pa.

Roberts, John Bingham

author, was born in 1852 in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Paracentesis of the Pericardium; and Compendium of Anatomy.

Roberts, John Francis

legisla tor, was born May 10, 1856, in Phelps county, Mo. In 1893 he served as a member of the Arkansas state legislature. He was twice president of the county Farmer's Alliance, and has been a delegate to the state alliance of Little Rock, Ark.

Roberts, Jonathan

state senator, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 16, 1771, in Upper Merion, Pa.

He was elected to both branches of the Pennsylvania legislature; was a representative in congress from 1811 to 1814. From 1814 to 1821 he was a senator of the United States. In 1841 he was appointed collector of the port of Philadelphia. He died July 21, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa. a

Roberts, Joseph

soldier, educator, author, was born Dec. 30, 1814, in Middletown, Del. He was promoted colonel in the fourth artillery in 1877; and was placed on the retired list. He is the author of a Hand-Book of Artillery (New York, 1860).

Roberts, Joseph Jenkins

president of Liberia, was born March 15, 1809, in Norfolk, Va. When the colony of Liberia was founded by the American Colonization society he was first lieutenantgovernor and then governor of the colony, and, upon the formation of the republic in 1848, he was elected its first president, serving four years. He died Feb. 24, 1876, in Liberia.

Roberts, Robert Ellis

merchant, author, was born June 3, 1809, in Utica, N. Y. He was a prominent merchant and citizen of Detroit; and the author of Sketches of Detroit; and The City of the Straits. He died Feb. 18, 1881, in Detroit, Mich.

Roberts, Robert Richford

missionary, was born Aug. 2, 1778, in Frederick county, Md. He was called by the Indians the grandfather of all the missionaries. His history is identified with the early methodist church. He died March 26, 1843, in Lawrence county, Ind.

Roberts, Robert W

congressman, was born in Delaware. He settled in Mississippi; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.