Samuel John Tapp

  

--Portrait and Biographical Record of Ford County, Illinois.  Lake City Publishing.  Chicago.  1892.  Pages 352-353

 

--Buried Lyman Township Cemetery.  My Photos.

The article states her name as Louisa Thompson.  But FAG states Harriet L. "Hattie" Thompson Tapp.  Middle name maybe Louisa?

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FLORA & NEWMAN
ANDERSON & KENWARD
FOSTER BROS. HARDWARE
RISSER & ANDERSON
R. B. CHAMBERS
CHRIS ANDERSON
ROBERTS CREAMERY
JOHN BOYLE

"I've come across some advertising on TISSUE PAPER of local businesses--two pieces of such advertising were torn off and placed between photos in the Foster/Ruedger album I have, which looks to be about 120 years old."

--Photos and comments from Ayesha H. LeRoy.  Posted to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB Page.  July 2018.

We took Roberts in on our return trip . . .

We took Roberts in on our return trip and spent a few hours pleasantly among her business men.  Meserve & Hubbard, bankers and grain dealers; Thompson & Lyman, hardware: Floyd & Newman, R. B. Chambers, Pfaat & Gose, and Anderson & Campbell, dry goods; Thos. McNeish, boots and shoes and harness, and A. D. Wyckoff, drugs and books.  The latter is a new comer from Chebanse and will prove a valuable acquisition to Roberts.  We must not forget our brawny armed workers, Taff & Tinklepaugh, who run the wagon and blacksmith shops, and was fat and rich at the same time.  Roberts has a fine country surrounding it and just as fine a set of business men and citizens as any town in the west can boast.
Geo. H. Thompson was at his post again, after a visit of some weeks in the East, and finds the prairies more attractive than the hills and rocks of New York.
The hotel de Newman is a marked improvement over the same house as we remember it several years since.  A dinner enjoyed at that house is not soon forgotten.  We can commend it to the wayfarer as the place where the money's worth is always to be had.
We had contemplated taking Melvin in our route, but wind and weather said no, and we shall be obliged to set apart another day and accept the invitation of our friend Charley Ellis to hunt chickens with him, though we have not the most remote idea that we shall be the death of any.

1875

Meserve & Hubbard    Bankers and Grain Dealers
Thompson & Lyman     Hardware
Floyd & Newman       Dry Goods
R. B. Chambers       Dry Goods
Pfaat & Gose         Dry Goods
Anderson & Campbell  Dry Goods
Thos. McNeish        Boots, Shoes and Harnesses
A. D. Wyckoff        Drugs and Books
Tapp & Tinklepaugh   Wagon & Blacksmith
Newman Hotel         Hotel

 

 

--Paxton Record.  7 October 1875.

Robert B. Chambers

 

LYMAN TOWNSHIP CEMETERY WALK

Robert Chambers
--Roberts Area Centennial. 100 Years of Plowing Planting Progressing. 1872-1972.

Roberts 1894

 

 

 

 

Photos were taken right after the fire of 1894, the reason so many people in the village.

From L to R: Meat Market, est. 1865; W. H. Wakelin (says dry goods * notions * ? * shoes * groceries * flour * salt); Next building says Groceries * Notions; next is a sign on post - Dentist; followed by R.B. Chambers; ? ; ? ; and finally Colteaux's Restaurant. After that was the school building on the corner.
The R.B. Chambers building is the current Schooney's bar. Of all the buildings in the photo, that is the only one that remains.
The school was on the corner where the bank stands today. That is the school bell tower.

--Posted photos and all comments by Jean Fox to the Roberts Illinois History Group FB page.

Day - Peterson Wedding

Married, at Paxton, Thanksgiving Day, November 27th, 1919, Miss Grace Peterson of the Lake Shore District to Mr. Beryl Day of Roberts.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson. She has lived here all her life and is one of the most popular young ladies of the community. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Day. He is also a native of the place. He has been a prominent young farmer, but last week he engaged in business in Roberts and is now one of the proprietors of the new restaurant opened in the Kenward building just east of R. B. Chambers' store. Both these young people have a host of friends here who extend congratulations and best wishes for long, happy and prosperous lives. The Herald joins them in both.

-- Roberts Herald. 3 December 1919.