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Title:
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Wyoming WPA Biographical File regarding John Roberts
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Collection Name:
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WPA Collection
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Collection Number:
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WPA Bio 826
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Item Description:
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Roberts, John - Biographical information for John Roberts; "Rev. John Roberts, D. D.:LLD:BA. Missionary", no source, n.d.; "Testimonial Is Offered to End Controversy About Internment", Billings Gazette [?], n.d.; "Short Account of the Work of John Roberts", no source, n.d.
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Creator:
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Mrs. Tacetta B. Walker
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Location:
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Thermpolis (Wyo.)
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Date:
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1939 January 16
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Link to Finding Aid:
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https://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wy-arwpa.xml
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Notes:
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born: Mar. 31, 1853, at Rhyl (Flintshire, North Wales, Great Britain)
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Notes:
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Fremont Co.
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Army Chaplain
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served lepers (Bahama Islands)
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Protestant Episcopal Church missionary to Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians (58 years)
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Notes:
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Mason
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Episcopalian
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B. A. degree, St. David's College, Lampeter, a Welch college affiliated with University of Oxford)
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ordained to deaconate (Litchfield, England - 1878)
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terrible blizzard (Wyo. - 1883)
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Chief Washakie (friend), subject officiated at his funeral (Fort Washakie, Wyo.)
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Mrs. Frank Mondell honored subjecct & Protestant Episcopal Cathedral (Washington, D. C.) with Wyo. state flag (Feb. 25, 1934)
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Sacajawea, aka "Brazil's mother" - subject officiated at her funeral (Apr. 9, 1884), Shoshone tribal cemtery
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built Shoshone Indian Mission Boarding School for girls (1889)
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awarded Doctor of Divinity by Western Theological Seminary (Evanston, Ill. - 1932)
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University of Wyoming awarded LLD (degree) to subject
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Wyo. Legislature honored subject for "60 years" of service to church, commuity, state and nation (Feb. 14, 1933)
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Shoshone Indian Mission School founder (Wind River, Wyo. - 1883)
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Notes:
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Wind River (Wyo. Terr. - Feb. 10, 1883)
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"White Robes", subject so named by Chief Washakie
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Roberts, Mrs. Laura Alice Brown (wife, born: Jan. 4, 1864 - married: ? - died: Mar. 28, 1941 - buried: Mount Hope Cemetery at Lander, Wyo.)
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Notes:
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children: E. N., Given, plus 3 additional daughters
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died: Jun. 22, 1949 (age: 96), at Flintshire (Wales)
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Notes:
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buried: Mount Hope Cemetery (Memorial ID: 20465213), at Lander (Fremont Co., Wyo.)
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Rights:
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No Copyright - United States, https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en
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Type:
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Text
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