OUTLINE OF 

 PROFESSOR ROBERTS' LIFE 



author of this autobiography, Pro- 

 fessor Isaac Phillips Roberts, was born 

 in Seneca County, New York, July 24, 

 , of native American parents. His father, 

 Aaron Phillips Roberts, emigrated from Harbor- 

 town, New Jersey, to Central New York about 

 1816 and in 1820 married Elizabeth Burroughs, 

 the daughter of Joseph Burroughs, who had come 

 from the same neighborhood in New Jersey in 

 1812. Professor Roberts was educated in the dis- 

 trict school of the town of Varick and at the Seneca 

 Falls Academy. He never attended College but in 

 1875 ne received from the Iowa State Agricultural 

 College the degree of Master of Agriculture. 



In early manhood he went from East Varick 

 to La Porte, Indiana, where he practised the trade 

 of carpenter until he was able to buy a farm, and 

 taught school during the winters. In 1857 he 

 married at Kingsbury, Indiana, Margaret Jane 

 Marr, the daughter of a prosperous farmer, and 

 in 1862 emigrated with his wife and daughter in a 

 pioneer wagon from Indiana to Mount Pleasant, 

 Iowa, where he settled down to farming. 



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