Providence County Biographies

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ROBERTS, John Hopkinson, manufacturing confectioner, Providence, was born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, April 5,1840, son of James H. and Lydia (Hopkinson) Roberts. His ancestry is English. He was educated in the public schools, and after graduation pursued various avocations until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he became of age, and enlisted, serving throughout the war. On his return from the army in 1866 he engaged in the manufacturing confectionery business in Boston.

In 1873 he sold out in Boston and removed to Providence, entering there into the same business, the manufacture of confectionery, and continuing to the present time. He has established a business in this line of large proportions, now carried on under the name and style of The J. H. Roberts Company, incorporated 1895. Mr. Roberts is not a club or society man, his time outside of his family being mainly devoted to the interests of his large and constantly expanding business. He is a Democrat, but has never held political office. He was married, June 4, 1874, to Miss Harriet Littlefield, and this union has been blessed by seven children : Martha J., Joseph H , John H., Jr., Harriet, Alice D., Linda B. and Dorothy Roberts.

Source: Rhode Island Men of Progress - Submitted by Cathy Schultz

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