Roberts, Robert Richford

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Roberts, Robert Richford

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        1778-1843

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        Robert Richford Roberts (1778-1843) was born in Frederick County, Maryland on August 2, 1778. He migrated to Mercer County, Pennsylvania where he lived as a frontiersperson with his wife Elizabeth Oldham of York County, Pennsylvania. Roberts was admitted on trial in the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and ordained by Bishops Asbury and Coke in 1804 and 1806. After several appointments in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, he was elected a bishop in 1816. In 1819 Roberts moved to Indiana where he became known as "the log cabin" bishop. His episcopal journeys took him from Maine to Mississippi and to the Indian missions west of Arkansas. Roberts died in Indiana on March 26, 1843.

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