From William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
MIAMI COUNTY, Part 7
JOHN MILLEN ROBERTS, farmer, Section 7, P.O. Paola. Mr. Roberts is one of the pioneer settlers of 1858. He was born in Sparta, Livingston County, N.Y. in 1826, was brought up a farmer and immigrated to Lykins County (now Miami), Kansas., in 1859. He purchased his present farm of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. His title was disputed by the wife and sons of the chief, and after a tedious litigation lasting six years his title was confirmed in the United States Courts, the Indian chief being his best witness. Mr Roberts participated in the defense of Kansas from invasion during the late war, being a member of a company of the State troops during the years of 1862, 1863 and 1864. He has served as County Commissioner. He has a fine farm of 305 acres situated just west of the village of Paola.
Obituary in Paola, Kansas newspaper, Dated Feb. 22, 1895
JOHN M. ROBERTS DEAD
We attended the burial ceremony of Judge John M. Roberts in this city last Wednesday, 2 o'clock P.M. at the residence of Wm. Emery and noticed that the deeply interested ones, outside of the family were the old settlers --those who knew the rugged, heroic John Millen Roberts in the early days of the municipal existence of the fertile and famous acreage of ground now known as Miami county. They didn't go to show their clothes and bespeak favors from a wealthy lineage following after the departed by "crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." They went because they knew the dead man and because they felt that the grim harvester had sharpened his scythe again and leaped into the field of ripened and ripening grain. Their trip was to bear the tributes of respect of a worthy pioneer who died poor in the sense that lucre alone is riches. They remembered by his oft told story that he was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1826 and they knew by seeing that he located here in the fall of 1858. This was then Lykins county, K.T.
Doubtless a few of the old timers remembered when he bought his land west of town from old Baptiste Peoria in 1859 and was that fall elected County Commissioner, them called Supervisor, and how the next year he was defeated for the Legislature by B. F. Simpson. Joe Phillips or Joe Hobson perhaps recalled the time when the Osawatomie delegation of ultra Republicans came over here and named John M. Roberts as the Republican candidate for the House when the question of changing the county lines was to be voted up or down in the member chosen and the lopping off of a few miles on the south of this county would have given Osawatomie the central location for the court house. Probably a few recollected how that early deal was made by the Mr. Simpson got on the track as the Paola candidate against the decree of the Republican convention and was elected. Those were days when Bull Creek from Paola to the northwest branch was lined on either side by Democrats and Richland was a Democratic stronghold--McCamishville.
But, dropping reminiscences, Mr. Roberts earned and got the lasting esteem and confidence of all his associates. He stood like a stone wall against the pillaging of pretended patriots upon the peaceable and industrious neighbors across the line on the east. His early teaching and fixed ideas were Democratic and he got back to the party of his youth in 1872 and there stayed ever after. In 1876 he ran for Probate Judge and although Hayes & Wheeler carried the county by 700 he came nearly winning against a man who never yet has been beaten, Ezra W. Robinson. In sincere convictions and courage to express them Roberts was a champion in all controversies upon vital issues. He always knew his ground and stood upon it flat-footed and head up.
To the family his beloved wife and other near and dear ones, the community extends sympathy in the distress that time only can relieve.
MIAMI COUNTY, Part 7
JOHN MILLEN ROBERTS, farmer, Section 7, P.O. Paola. Mr. Roberts is one of the pioneer settlers of 1858. He was born in Sparta, Livingston County, N.Y. in 1826, was brought up a farmer and immigrated to Lykins County (now Miami), Kansas., in 1859. He purchased his present farm of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. His title was disputed by the wife and sons of the chief, and after a tedious litigation lasting six years his title was confirmed in the United States Courts, the Indian chief being his best witness. Mr Roberts participated in the defense of Kansas from invasion during the late war, being a member of a company of the State troops during the years of 1862, 1863 and 1864. He has served as County Commissioner. He has a fine farm of 305 acres situated just west of the village of Paola.
Obituary in Paola, Kansas newspaper, Dated Feb. 22, 1895
JOHN M. ROBERTS DEAD
We attended the burial ceremony of Judge John M. Roberts in this city last Wednesday, 2 o'clock P.M. at the residence of Wm. Emery and noticed that the deeply interested ones, outside of the family were the old settlers --those who knew the rugged, heroic John Millen Roberts in the early days of the municipal existence of the fertile and famous acreage of ground now known as Miami county. They didn't go to show their clothes and bespeak favors from a wealthy lineage following after the departed by "crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." They went because they knew the dead man and because they felt that the grim harvester had sharpened his scythe again and leaped into the field of ripened and ripening grain. Their trip was to bear the tributes of respect of a worthy pioneer who died poor in the sense that lucre alone is riches. They remembered by his oft told story that he was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1826 and they knew by seeing that he located here in the fall of 1858. This was then Lykins county, K.T.
Doubtless a few of the old timers remembered when he bought his land west of town from old Baptiste Peoria in 1859 and was that fall elected County Commissioner, them called Supervisor, and how the next year he was defeated for the Legislature by B. F. Simpson. Joe Phillips or Joe Hobson perhaps recalled the time when the Osawatomie delegation of ultra Republicans came over here and named John M. Roberts as the Republican candidate for the House when the question of changing the county lines was to be voted up or down in the member chosen and the lopping off of a few miles on the south of this county would have given Osawatomie the central location for the court house. Probably a few recollected how that early deal was made by the Mr. Simpson got on the track as the Paola candidate against the decree of the Republican convention and was elected. Those were days when Bull Creek from Paola to the northwest branch was lined on either side by Democrats and Richland was a Democratic stronghold--McCamishville.
But, dropping reminiscences, Mr. Roberts earned and got the lasting esteem and confidence of all his associates. He stood like a stone wall against the pillaging of pretended patriots upon the peaceable and industrious neighbors across the line on the east. His early teaching and fixed ideas were Democratic and he got back to the party of his youth in 1872 and there stayed ever after. In 1876 he ran for Probate Judge and although Hayes & Wheeler carried the county by 700 he came nearly winning against a man who never yet has been beaten, Ezra W. Robinson. In sincere convictions and courage to express them Roberts was a champion in all controversies upon vital issues. He always knew his ground and stood upon it flat-footed and head up.
To the family his beloved wife and other near and dear ones, the community extends sympathy in the distress that time only can relieve.
From William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
MIAMI COUNTY, Part 7
JOHN MILLEN ROBERTS, farmer, Section 7, P.O. Paola. Mr. Roberts is one of the pioneer settlers of 1858. He was born in Sparta, Livingston County, N.Y. in 1826, was brought up a farmer and immigrated to Lykins County (now Miami), Kansas., in 1859. He purchased his present farm of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. His title was disputed by the wife and sons of the chief, and after a tedious litigation lasting six years his title was confirmed in the United States Courts, the Indian chief being his best witness. Mr Roberts participated in the defense of Kansas from invasion during the late war, being a member of a company of the State troops during the years of 1862, 1863 and 1864. He has served as County Commissioner. He has a fine farm of 305 acres situated just west of the village of Paola.
Obituary in Paola, Kansas newspaper, Dated Feb. 22, 1895
JOHN M. ROBERTS DEAD
We attended the burial ceremony of Judge John M. Roberts in this city last Wednesday, 2 o'clock P.M. at the residence of Wm. Emery and noticed that the deeply interested ones, outside of the family were the old settlers --those who knew the rugged, heroic John Millen Roberts in the early days of the municipal existence of the fertile and famous acreage of ground now known as Miami county. They didn't go to show their clothes and bespeak favors from a wealthy lineage following after the departed by "crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." They went because they knew the dead man and because they felt that the grim harvester had sharpened his scythe again and leaped into the field of ripened and ripening grain. Their trip was to bear the tributes of respect of a worthy pioneer who died poor in the sense that lucre alone is riches. They remembered by his oft told story that he was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1826 and they knew by seeing that he located here in the fall of 1858. This was then Lykins county, K.T.
Doubtless a few of the old timers remembered when he bought his land west of town from old Baptiste Peoria in 1859 and was that fall elected County Commissioner, them called Supervisor, and how the next year he was defeated for the Legislature by B. F. Simpson. Joe Phillips or Joe Hobson perhaps recalled the time when the Osawatomie delegation of ultra Republicans came over here and named John M. Roberts as the Republican candidate for the House when the question of changing the county lines was to be voted up or down in the member chosen and the lopping off of a few miles on the south of this county would have given Osawatomie the central location for the court house. Probably a few recollected how that early deal was made by the Mr. Simpson got on the track as the Paola candidate against the decree of the Republican convention and was elected. Those were days when Bull Creek from Paola to the northwest branch was lined on either side by Democrats and Richland was a Democratic stronghold--McCamishville.
But, dropping reminiscences, Mr. Roberts earned and got the lasting esteem and confidence of all his associates. He stood like a stone wall against the pillaging of pretended patriots upon the peaceable and industrious neighbors across the line on the east. His early teaching and fixed ideas were Democratic and he got back to the party of his youth in 1872 and there stayed ever after. In 1876 he ran for Probate Judge and although Hayes & Wheeler carried the county by 700 he came nearly winning against a man who never yet has been beaten, Ezra W. Robinson. In sincere convictions and courage to express them Roberts was a champion in all controversies upon vital issues. He always knew his ground and stood upon it flat-footed and head up.
To the family his beloved wife and other near and dear ones, the community extends sympathy in the distress that time only can relieve.
MIAMI COUNTY, Part 7
JOHN MILLEN ROBERTS, farmer, Section 7, P.O. Paola. Mr. Roberts is one of the pioneer settlers of 1858. He was born in Sparta, Livingston County, N.Y. in 1826, was brought up a farmer and immigrated to Lykins County (now Miami), Kansas., in 1859. He purchased his present farm of the Indian chief Baptiste Peoria. His title was disputed by the wife and sons of the chief, and after a tedious litigation lasting six years his title was confirmed in the United States Courts, the Indian chief being his best witness. Mr Roberts participated in the defense of Kansas from invasion during the late war, being a member of a company of the State troops during the years of 1862, 1863 and 1864. He has served as County Commissioner. He has a fine farm of 305 acres situated just west of the village of Paola.
Obituary in Paola, Kansas newspaper, Dated Feb. 22, 1895
JOHN M. ROBERTS DEAD
We attended the burial ceremony of Judge John M. Roberts in this city last Wednesday, 2 o'clock P.M. at the residence of Wm. Emery and noticed that the deeply interested ones, outside of the family were the old settlers --those who knew the rugged, heroic John Millen Roberts in the early days of the municipal existence of the fertile and famous acreage of ground now known as Miami county. They didn't go to show their clothes and bespeak favors from a wealthy lineage following after the departed by "crooking the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning." They went because they knew the dead man and because they felt that the grim harvester had sharpened his scythe again and leaped into the field of ripened and ripening grain. Their trip was to bear the tributes of respect of a worthy pioneer who died poor in the sense that lucre alone is riches. They remembered by his oft told story that he was born in Livingston county, New York, in 1826 and they knew by seeing that he located here in the fall of 1858. This was then Lykins county, K.T.
Doubtless a few of the old timers remembered when he bought his land west of town from old Baptiste Peoria in 1859 and was that fall elected County Commissioner, them called Supervisor, and how the next year he was defeated for the Legislature by B. F. Simpson. Joe Phillips or Joe Hobson perhaps recalled the time when the Osawatomie delegation of ultra Republicans came over here and named John M. Roberts as the Republican candidate for the House when the question of changing the county lines was to be voted up or down in the member chosen and the lopping off of a few miles on the south of this county would have given Osawatomie the central location for the court house. Probably a few recollected how that early deal was made by the Mr. Simpson got on the track as the Paola candidate against the decree of the Republican convention and was elected. Those were days when Bull Creek from Paola to the northwest branch was lined on either side by Democrats and Richland was a Democratic stronghold--McCamishville.
But, dropping reminiscences, Mr. Roberts earned and got the lasting esteem and confidence of all his associates. He stood like a stone wall against the pillaging of pretended patriots upon the peaceable and industrious neighbors across the line on the east. His early teaching and fixed ideas were Democratic and he got back to the party of his youth in 1872 and there stayed ever after. In 1876 he ran for Probate Judge and although Hayes & Wheeler carried the county by 700 he came nearly winning against a man who never yet has been beaten, Ezra W. Robinson. In sincere convictions and courage to express them Roberts was a champion in all controversies upon vital issues. He always knew his ground and stood upon it flat-footed and head up.
To the family his beloved wife and other near and dear ones, the community extends sympathy in the distress that time only can relieve.
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