H. B. Roth    

H. B. ROTH, Superintendent of Public Schools of Meadville, as an educator is among the most prominent men of his age in the State of Pennsylvania. He was born in Pennsylvania, son of Reuben S. and Anna M. Rupp, and is of German descent. He was reared on a farm and attended the district school until fourteen, when he went to Cumberland Valley Institute, where he pursued his studies with such diligence that at the age of eighteen he was able to enter the Dickinson College, taking a position in the junior class, and at twenty graduated with honors. In 1875 he was elected Professor of Mathematics in the Pennington Seminary, N. J., and in 1877 accepted a position at the head of the public schools of Sunbury, Penn., where he remained until 1881, since when he has occupied his present position. He is a thorough scholar and a good disciplinarian. He is a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr. Roth was married in 1878 to Amy C., a daughter of W. R. F. Weimer, Sunbury, Penn. In 1883 Mrs. Roth departed this life.

History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania: containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 767

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