WI BIO - Winnebago Co - ROBERTS, John

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
1177

John ROBERTS, proprietor of Roberts' Summer Resort, Doty Island [Winnebago 
County, Wisconsin; on Lake Winnebago, near Neenah], was born in 1833 in 
Oneida County, New York. He kept an hotel in Schenectady [Schenectady 
County, New York] and other places, and about 1858 went to New York City, 
where he remained until 1862. He was then in Newark [Licking County], Ohio, 
about five years.

John ROBERTS came to Wisconsin in 1866, and located in Columbus, Columbia 
County, and opened an hotel, and from there moved to Menasha [Winnebago 
County, Wisconsin]. Mr. ROBERTS has been engaged in the hotel business as 
clerk and proprietor for about thirty-four years. His present business has 
been open five years, having accommodations for about one hundred people. 
Mr. ROBERTS is now building a number of cottages, which will be ready for the 
season of 1882.


In 1861 in Fonda, Montgomery County, New York, he [John ROBERTS] was married 
to Miss Martha LINGENFELTER, of Fonda. They [John and Martha (LINGENFELTER) 
ROBERTS] have three children: John, George C., and Stella. Mr. ROBERTS is a 
member of the Ancient Free & Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows Lodge and Encampment, and the Royal Arcanum. He has been Alderman 
two or three terms and County Supervisor two terms.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly