My Genealogy Hound

JOHN D. ROBERTS was born in Shreveport, La., February 23, 1845, and is the only child of John and Sabina (Dunlap) Roberts — the former of whom was a native of Tennessee, and the latter of Indiana. They were of Scotch and English descent respectively. Our subject however, has six half-brothers, the fruit of a subsequent marriage of both his father and mother. John Roberts received his early education in his native State of Tennessee, where he also learned the saddler and harness-maker’s trade. When a young man he removed to Shreveport, La., where he followed his trade with abundant success until his death, which occurred in May, 1845, when our subject was only three months old. He was a member of the Baptist and Mrs. Roberts of the Presbyterian Church. Our subject received a good common school education, and an academic one at Warsaw, Ind., in early life. At the age of eighteen years he went to Cairo, Ill., and here he served seven years as an apprentice and clerk in the drug business. He then came to Columbus, Ky., where he clerked in a drug store for some four years, after which he opened a drug store of his own at the same place, and has been engaged in that business ever since. He is one of the oldest and best posted druggists and chemists in the Purchase. Mr. Roberts is yet unmarried, he and three of his half-brothers living together. He is liberal in his political views and is one of the leading and promising citizens of the city and county.