DANIEL P. ROBERTS
Daniel P. Roberts, son of Adolph and Elizabeth Roberts, was born February 4, 1841, in Athens county, Ohio. In 1843 his parents came to Iowa and located in Linn county. They had a family of eight children, of whom Daniel P. was next to the youngest. In 1849 they removed to Johnson county, where the father died in 1872. The mother is still living upon the old homestead with her daughter, Mary. Daniel P. Roberts, in August, 1862, enlisted in company E, of the Twenty-eighth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He participated in the campaign against Vicksburg, the battle of Port Gibson and Champion Hill, where he received a wound in his right leg, on account of which he was discharged at St. Louis, December 21, 1863. He returned to Johnson county, and was married to Margaret Alt, soon after. She was born in Johnson county, February 28, 1841. He engaged in farming in that county until 1878, then came to Cass county and bought one hundred and sixty acres in section 33, Union township, which is his present residence. He has a fine farm in a high state of cultivation. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts are the parents of five children--Cyrus, born in May, 1865; Cora, born in February, 1870; Sarah, born in January, 1874; Vance, born in April, 1877, and Alice, born in December, 1880. Mr. Roberts is a worthy citizen and a Christian gentleman.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 737.
