Dan A. Roberts

    Dan A. Roberts, farmer, Smyrna Township, was the son of Dan and Ann (Walker) Roberts, both of whom were born and raised in Lancastershire, England. They came to the United States about 1844, and located in Jefferson County, Indiana.

    His father taught school in this county, and bought a farm, and remained here for about two years, when he went to Cincinnati, Ohio; remained there until 1848, when he went to Louisville, Kentucky, where he died of cholera in 1849. His mother is still living on her farm in this county, aged 67 years.

    Dan A. Roberts was born in Hamilton County, Ohio, January 15, 1846, removed to Louisville, Kentucky with his parents, in 1848, and remained there until 1858, when he removed with his mother to Jefferson County, Indiana, where he haws resided ever since.

    He attended school in Louisville, and in Smyrna Township. In 1869 he was married to Miss Perintha E. Robinson, the daughter of John Robinson, who was a native of Ohio, but came to Indiana in 1847, and located on a farm in Graham Township, where he remained until his death in 1855.

    Mr. Roberts has five children, three boys and two girls: Edgar A., Claude A., Clarence J., Esma A., and Myrtle E. Mr. Roberts owns three farms, contained about 300 acres of good land, located in the western part of Smyrna Township. He raised a great deal of stock.

    In the spring of 1864 he enlisted in Company E, 137th Regiment Indiana Infantry, and in the winter of 1864 enlisted in company H, 145th Regiment Indiana Infantry, and was mustered out at Macon, Georgia, January 21, 1866. His regiment was engaged in guard duty the most of the time.

    He has been twice elected to the office of trustee of Smyrna Township. He is the only Republican ever elected to that office in Smyrna Township.

Source: Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington, Indiana. By John M. Gresham & Co., 1889.