WI BIO - Eau Claire Co - ROBERTS, Allen P.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 331

Allen P. ROBERTS, Eau Claire [Eau Claire County, Wisconsin], was born 06 
September 1844 in Ashtabula, Ohio [Ashtabula County in Ohio; the City of 
Ashtabula incorporated 06 April 1891], and resided there until he was four or 
five years old, when he moved to Michigan, where he remained until 1855, when 
he located at Reed's Landing [Wabasha County], Minnesota. In 1861 he 
enlisted, was rejected, and went to Hillsdale [Hillsdale County], Michigan. 
Leaving there in 1875, he went to Wabasha, Minnesota, and in 1877 came from 
there to Eau Claire. He has worked as a machinist since the fall of 1861.

[To accomplish his move from Minnesota to Wisconsin, Allen P. ROBERTS could 
have traveled via the Herman Line Steamers, which began business in the 
spring of 1875, and had two steamers making daily trips between Reed's 
Landing, Wabasha County, Minnesota, and Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, 
Wisconsin. From page 324 of the same source.]

On 25 January 1869 in Hillsdale [Hillsdale County], Michigan he [Allen P. 
ROBERTS] was married to [Miss?] Mattie M. MORRIS, who was born in Hebron 
[Porter County], Indiana. They [Allen P. and Mattie M. ROBERTS] have one 
child, Edward M.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly