Bio: Roberts, Allen P. (1881)

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Surnames: Roberts, Morris

----Source: History of Northern Wisconsin (Eau Claire County, Wis.) 1881, page 331

ALLEN P. ROBERTS, Eau Claire, was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1844, 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, Minn. In 1861, he enlisted, was rejected, and went to Hillsdale, Mich. Leaving there in 1875, he went to Wabasha, Minn., and in 1877, came from there to Eau Claire. He has worked as a machinist since the Fall of 1861. He was married in Hillsdale, Mich., Jan. 25, 1869, to Mattie M. Morris, who was born in Hebron, Ind. They have one child, Edward M.