James D. Roberts   

JAMES D. ROBERTS, attorney at law, Meadville, was born in Mercer County, Penn., August 9, 1850, son of Enoch and Mary (Calvin) Roberts, who were natives of Pennsylvania, the father of English, the mother of Irish descent. The father is a blacksmith, came to the county in 1856, and is still a resident of Fairfield Township. James D. is the eldest of a family of four children, one of whom is dead, and received his literary education at the New Lebanon Academy and the Edinboro State Normal, from which he graduated in 1873. He supported himself while in school and after leaving school he taught for two years. He then commenced the study of law in the office of J. J. Henderson, of Meadville, being admitted to the district courts in 1876, and in 1878 to the Supreme Court of the State, and the United States District Circuit Courts. He was married, in 1880, to Flora A., daughter of Charles Forbes, a farmer and dairyman of this county. They have one child—Mary. Both are members of the Second Presbyterian Church, of which he has recently been elected Elder, and has been for the past four years Superintendent of the Sabbath-school.

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 766

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