ROBERS, GEORGE

ROBERS, SHIELDS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/30/2019 at 15:04:02

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

ROBERS, GEORGE, manufacturer and dealer in harness and saddlery hardware; was born in Holland Aug. 25, 1833 ; his parents emigrated to the United States in 1837; they lived in St. Louis two years; went to Cincinnati in 1840, where George learned his trade of his father ; the latter died in 1849, and George came to Fort Madison in July, 1850, and engaged in his present business, and has continued it twenty-nine years longer than any other harness house in Lee Co., except Leopold, of Keokuk. He married in October, 1857, Miss Catharine Shields, a native of Philadelphia ; they have eight children—Gertrude, Henry, Emily, Katie. Minnie, Edward, Lewis and Pet.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879