Samuel McRoberts

MCROBERTS, SHAFER, NETTLETON, QUINN

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 7/29/2002 at 20:40:33

Samuel McRoberts resides on section 14. Mr. McRoberts was born in county Armagh, Ireland, in 1812. At about the age of thirty he removed to Canada; from thence to Iowa, in 1856. His first settlement in this county was in Butler township, one mile north of Clarksville, where he bought a farm of Mr. Shafer, who entered the same. He bought a quarter section of his present farm of William J. Nettleton. He has now 300 acres of well—improved land.
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Mr. McRoberts came to America with nothing, but by industry and good management has acquired a competence. He has two brothers living in Canada. Mr. McRoberts was married in Ireland to Mary Quinn. They have four children – Samuel, Margaret, John and Mary Ann. Mr. and Mrs. McRoberts are members of the Presbyterian Church.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 551