DARKE COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed to the Montgomery County, Ohio Biographies Project  by:
Billy J. Baker
billybak@erols.com
April 24, 2000 
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Nebraska 
First published in 1882 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

Nuckolls County --

J. A. ROBERTS, one of the proprietors of Blue Bluff Mills, was born in
Darke County, Ohio, 1844. IN 1856, emigrated to Iowa, locating in Clarke
county, remaining there the most of the time until 1871. In 1862,
enlisted in company D, Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry, serving three years.
was in all the engagements of his regiment. In 1871, came to Nebraska
and took a homestead on Section 6, Town 3, Range 6, which he improved
and owned until 1879. In 1876, in company with Mr. Aikens, rented the
Blue Bluff Flouring-Mills, which they ran nearly two years. Then
purchased a half-interest in a mill at Amboy, which he ran until 1881,
then sold and bought an interest in the Blue Bluff Mills. The mills are
36X48 feet, with two run of wheat buhrs and one for corn. The capacity
is about fourteen bushels per hour for each run of stone. The dam has a
seven-foot fall, and the power is strong enough to run about as much
again machinery. There is a stone quarry in connection with the mill.
Was married in 1867, in Clarke County, Iowa, to Miss Stansbury, They
have three children, viz.: Clara, Henry and Maggie.