Rose to John David Roberts and wife Ella Protheroe.
He graduated from Wild Rose in 1915. He graduated
from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He was in
Thera Chi, Men's Glee Club, Athenae, Square Club,
Harefoot Follies. His thesis was "The Homestead Law
in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin." He served in
WWI as a Sgt !/c md. in France. When he came
back her was an organizer of the American Legion in
Wild Rose. They named the Chapter after Daniel
Dopp who was killed in the war. He went to Beaver
Dam to work in a departmen store in the 1930's. He
came back to Wild Rose to run the Wild Rose Mercan-
tile. His store aways wrapped your purcchases in
brown paper and tied it with string. Even my base-
ball cards were wrapped. Arnol donated land to the
village west of the millpond which was named after
him as Roberts Park. The WWII draft reorted he was
Five feet seven and a half inches. He was 155
pounds. He had blue eyes, brown hair with light
complexion. His hair turned white sa he got older.
He had an interest in history and donated obects to
the Wisconsin Historica Society and the Wild Rose
Historical Museum. He married Dorothy Patrick
une 16, 1928 in Chicago. He died Oct. 27, 1994 in
Wild Rose. He is buried in Oakhill.
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