WI BIO - Dodge Co - ROBERTS, Edward T.

History of Dodge County, Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1880, p 694

Edward T. ROBERTS, farmer, Section 18 [Westford Township, Dodge County, 
Wisconsin], P. O. Randolph [Westford Township], was born 25 December 1851 in 
Angleshire, North Wales, the son of Thomas and Catharine ROBERTS. [Section 
18, where the farm was located, is directly south of the community of 
Randolph, with only Section 7 of Westford Township separating them. A map of 
Dodge County dated 1878 shows Randolph on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul 
Railway line.]

In 1871 he [Edward T. ROBERTS] emigrated to America and settled in the town 
[Township] of Calamus, Dodge County, Wisconsin, and made that his home until 
1873, when he went to Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In September 1878 he 
removed to a farm of 200 acres in Section 18, Westford [Westford Township, 
Dodge County, Wisconsin], which he had bought in June 1878. 

In February 1878 he [Edward T. ROBERTS] married Miss Annie, daughter of 
William and Mary ROBERTS, of Calamus [Township]. They [Edward T. and Annie 
(ROBERTS) ROBERTS] have one son, Robert. They are members of the Welsh 
Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically Mr. Edward T. ROBERTS is a 
Republican.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly