Joseph P. Roberts
Jsoeph P. Roberts, farmer, P. O. Mantua, is a native of Middlesex County, Conn., born in 1821. His parents, Asher and Sarah (Paddoe) Roberts, were natives of Connecticut, of English descent. They were the parents of five children, two of whom survive: Jane and Joseph P. The father died in 1823, and the mother then married Charles Cone (by whom she had three children) and died in 1878. Our subject removed to Hiram Township, this county, in 1839, spending the first two years in Shalersville, where he began blacksmithing, a trade he continued twenty years in Mantua, this county. In 1857 he came to Hiram Township and purchased the farm on which he now resides, and which he has improved in various ways. He was married in 1845 to Miss Lovina Spencer, born in Mantua, only daughter of Hiram and Elizabeth Spencer, early settlers in this county. By this union were two children: Sarah, and Mary (deceased). Mrs, Roberts died in 1848 and Mr. Roberts again married, on this occasion, in 1855, Miss Lora AVebster, of Ashtabula County, Ohio, her native home, by whom he had three children: Julia, Lydia (deceased) and Bion. She died in 1872, and our subject then married, the third time, in 1877, Miss Adda Stanton, a native of this county, and by her has one son—Ray. Mr. Roberts is a Democrat in politics.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885