John S. Roberts was born in Southern Pennsylvania Nov. 19, 1809; came to this State about the year 1836, stopping first at Shawneetown; afterward he and his brother were at Springfield and at Jacksonville, and edited a paper for awhile; also followed farming. He came to Pike county in 1849 and bought The Pike County Sentinel, as above stated. In 1868 he was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for this District, and held the office for a year or two; was also Clerk of the Legislature for several sessions, was Supervisor of Martinsburg township several terms, and was Justice of the Peace from 1869 to 1878, when he died, leaving a widow (nee Elizabeth Twiford) and two sons,—J. Willis Roberts, now Justice of the Peace in Pittsfield, and Town Clerk, and Richard D., also a resident of Pittsfield.
