California Biographies

Source:
History of Napa and Lake Counties
San Francisco, Slocum, Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1881

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper 2011

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives 
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


MARION W. ROBERTS.  Was born in Huron County, Ohio, July 3, 1847, being the youngest son of B. F. 
and Marrietta Jennings Roberts. When he was seven years of age, he, with his parents, moved to 
Madison County, Iowa, residing there until 1865, during which time he was educated in the common 
schools and at the high schools in Des Moines. When he was eighteen years of age he moved to 
Warren County, Iowa; and there he remained engaged in farming, railroading and mercantile pursuits, 
until 1876, when he came to California and located on his present estate of seven hundred and eight 
acres, and is engaged chiefly in farming and stock raising. He was married in Des Moines, December 
25,1869, to Miss Emma A. Newman, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 13, 1850. By this union they 
have two children, Ernest, born March 22, 1870, and Clifford, born December 3, 1877.