Hawthorne, Julian, Ed. "The History of Washington: The Evergreen 
State from  Early  Dawn to Daylight." New York, American Historical 
Publishing Co., 1893. p.  700.

ROBARTS, JOHN, a member of the Farmer's Alliance, cultivates his one 
hundred and sixty acres, located four miles southwest of Fairfield, with 
a care that leaves nothing unimproved.  Well stocked, rich in orchard trees, 
and responding nobly to the toll o fthe husbandman, he has no reason to 
regret his choice of the vocation he has selected.  Mr. Robarts was born in
Ohio in 1827.  Both his parents were natives of the Keystone State.  His 
father is dead, but his mother, a very aged woman, still survives and makes 
her home in Iowa.  The subject of our sketch has been twice married, his 
first wife, whom he espoused in Iowa in 1849, being Miss Elizabeth Clark 
of Indiana.  She bore him five children.  He married his present wife, Miss 
Adeline Hall, in 1878.  They have five children.  Mr. Robarts had but nine 
months' schooling, being in charge of his father's farm form a very early 
age till he reached twenty.  Obliged to give up blacksmithing from the 
failure of his eyesight, he came to Oregon in 1850, where he engaged in 
agricultural pursuits and stock-raising.  Failing in this, he sold out and 
migrated to Washington, settling first in Walla Walla County, from whence, 
after a ten years' sojurn, he removed to his present home.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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