Jerome Lewis Roberts, called "Joe," was born Saturday, 1 March 1879 on Galloup (or Galloo) Island (Jefferson Co.), New York, about 10 miles west of Henderson Harbor in Lake Ontario. He was named for his mother's brother, Jerome, and his father, Lewis. He was the fifth of the seven children born to Lewis Humphrey Roberts and Ellen Roberts, and the last to be born on The Big Galloup before the family moved to Watertown, New York around 1880. In Watertown he attended the Cooper Street School.
His first individual appearance in the Watertown City Directory (for 1898 p. 73, pub. 1897) was: "Roberts, J.L., telegrapher, bds [boards at] 6 Emmett" [at the home of his parents]. He was 18 years old.
He married Maude A. Argersinger (b. 30 October 1878, daughter of Harvey and Nelia Argersinger) on 29 December 1897 in Watertown.
Joe and Maude would have four children: Jerome Merritt (called "Merritt") Roberts (1898-1964); Marjorie Roberts Payne (1900-1994) Stanton Harvey Roberts (1905-1984); and Warner (called "Wilber") Roberts (1910-1959).
Around 1900-1904 Joe worked as a telegrapher and telephone operator for a broker's office in Watertown and the family lived in a rented house at 38 Maple Street, two doors down from the home of his parents and two younger sisters. A family story says he also ran a "bucket shop" (dispensing alcohol illegally) and had to leave Watertown suddenly.
The family moved to Brooklyn, New York (where the two younger boys would be born) settling at 6 Willow Street in Columbia Heights. Joe got a job as a telegrapher for the local newspaper. He was a man large in stature and had many friends. Eventually he found his way to Wall Street where he met many influential people, learned to enjoy "the high life," and made and lost much money while working as a stockbroker. By 1915 the family was wealthy and living at 609 Seventh Avenue. Daughter Marjorie was Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras that year, and Jerome was a member of the Brooklyn Moose Lodge No. 69. Circa 1916-1920 they lived at 309 Sixth Avenue.
Not much is known about the final years of Jerome Roberts. After meeting many affluent and influential women from the U.S. and Europe in the course of his work, Joe left Maude (they were separated but never divorced) and wanted no further contact with his children. His mother in her old age (early 1920's) proudly kept his photo displayed in her home as the last surviving son and the most prosperous and successful of her children, but after her death Joe's sisters, by the 1940's, did not know his whereabouts and never learned what became of him.
Joe was last known by his family to have been living in Trenton, New Jersey in 1937. He worked for C.F. Hudson, and also had an office in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Jerome Lewis Roberts died, at the age of 60 years, on 8 September 1939 in Manhattan, New York at Presbyterian Hospital (today Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital). It appears he entered the hospital for a relatively uncomplicated surgery and died there of a cerebral hemorrhage. His last residence was 421 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, shared with a woman described on his death certificate as Helen Roberts, his wife. He was cremated (Cremation No. 22532) by the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey the following day. The ashes were mailed "Parcel Post" to the Wenner & Whitworth Funeral Home, 353 W. 46th Street in New York City on 11 September, and no further information, at this late date, can be obtained. No obituaries have been found.
His first individual appearance in the Watertown City Directory (for 1898 p. 73, pub. 1897) was: "Roberts, J.L., telegrapher, bds [boards at] 6 Emmett" [at the home of his parents]. He was 18 years old.
He married Maude A. Argersinger (b. 30 October 1878, daughter of Harvey and Nelia Argersinger) on 29 December 1897 in Watertown.
Joe and Maude would have four children: Jerome Merritt (called "Merritt") Roberts (1898-1964); Marjorie Roberts Payne (1900-1994) Stanton Harvey Roberts (1905-1984); and Warner (called "Wilber") Roberts (1910-1959).
Around 1900-1904 Joe worked as a telegrapher and telephone operator for a broker's office in Watertown and the family lived in a rented house at 38 Maple Street, two doors down from the home of his parents and two younger sisters. A family story says he also ran a "bucket shop" (dispensing alcohol illegally) and had to leave Watertown suddenly.
The family moved to Brooklyn, New York (where the two younger boys would be born) settling at 6 Willow Street in Columbia Heights. Joe got a job as a telegrapher for the local newspaper. He was a man large in stature and had many friends. Eventually he found his way to Wall Street where he met many influential people, learned to enjoy "the high life," and made and lost much money while working as a stockbroker. By 1915 the family was wealthy and living at 609 Seventh Avenue. Daughter Marjorie was Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras that year, and Jerome was a member of the Brooklyn Moose Lodge No. 69. Circa 1916-1920 they lived at 309 Sixth Avenue.
Not much is known about the final years of Jerome Roberts. After meeting many affluent and influential women from the U.S. and Europe in the course of his work, Joe left Maude (they were separated but never divorced) and wanted no further contact with his children. His mother in her old age (early 1920's) proudly kept his photo displayed in her home as the last surviving son and the most prosperous and successful of her children, but after her death Joe's sisters, by the 1940's, did not know his whereabouts and never learned what became of him.
Joe was last known by his family to have been living in Trenton, New Jersey in 1937. He worked for C.F. Hudson, and also had an office in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Jerome Lewis Roberts died, at the age of 60 years, on 8 September 1939 in Manhattan, New York at Presbyterian Hospital (today Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital). It appears he entered the hospital for a relatively uncomplicated surgery and died there of a cerebral hemorrhage. His last residence was 421 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, shared with a woman described on his death certificate as Helen Roberts, his wife. He was cremated (Cremation No. 22532) by the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey the following day. The ashes were mailed "Parcel Post" to the Wenner & Whitworth Funeral Home, 353 W. 46th Street in New York City on 11 September, and no further information, at this late date, can be obtained. No obituaries have been found.
Jerome Lewis Roberts, called "Joe," was born Saturday, 1 March 1879 on Galloup (or Galloo) Island (Jefferson Co.), New York, about 10 miles west of Henderson Harbor in Lake Ontario. He was named for his mother's brother, Jerome, and his father, Lewis. He was the fifth of the seven children born to Lewis Humphrey Roberts and Ellen Roberts, and the last to be born on The Big Galloup before the family moved to Watertown, New York around 1880. In Watertown he attended the Cooper Street School.
His first individual appearance in the Watertown City Directory (for 1898 p. 73, pub. 1897) was: "Roberts, J.L., telegrapher, bds [boards at] 6 Emmett" [at the home of his parents]. He was 18 years old.
He married Maude A. Argersinger (b. 30 October 1878, daughter of Harvey and Nelia Argersinger) on 29 December 1897 in Watertown.
Joe and Maude would have four children: Jerome Merritt (called "Merritt") Roberts (1898-1964); Marjorie Roberts Payne (1900-1994) Stanton Harvey Roberts (1905-1984); and Warner (called "Wilber") Roberts (1910-1959).
Around 1900-1904 Joe worked as a telegrapher and telephone operator for a broker's office in Watertown and the family lived in a rented house at 38 Maple Street, two doors down from the home of his parents and two younger sisters. A family story says he also ran a "bucket shop" (dispensing alcohol illegally) and had to leave Watertown suddenly.
The family moved to Brooklyn, New York (where the two younger boys would be born) settling at 6 Willow Street in Columbia Heights. Joe got a job as a telegrapher for the local newspaper. He was a man large in stature and had many friends. Eventually he found his way to Wall Street where he met many influential people, learned to enjoy "the high life," and made and lost much money while working as a stockbroker. By 1915 the family was wealthy and living at 609 Seventh Avenue. Daughter Marjorie was Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras that year, and Jerome was a member of the Brooklyn Moose Lodge No. 69. Circa 1916-1920 they lived at 309 Sixth Avenue.
Not much is known about the final years of Jerome Roberts. After meeting many affluent and influential women from the U.S. and Europe in the course of his work, Joe left Maude (they were separated but never divorced) and wanted no further contact with his children. His mother in her old age (early 1920's) proudly kept his photo displayed in her home as the last surviving son and the most prosperous and successful of her children, but after her death Joe's sisters, by the 1940's, did not know his whereabouts and never learned what became of him.
Joe was last known by his family to have been living in Trenton, New Jersey in 1937. He worked for C.F. Hudson, and also had an office in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Jerome Lewis Roberts died, at the age of 60 years, on 8 September 1939 in Manhattan, New York at Presbyterian Hospital (today Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital). It appears he entered the hospital for a relatively uncomplicated surgery and died there of a cerebral hemorrhage. His last residence was 421 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, shared with a woman described on his death certificate as Helen Roberts, his wife. He was cremated (Cremation No. 22532) by the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey the following day. The ashes were mailed "Parcel Post" to the Wenner & Whitworth Funeral Home, 353 W. 46th Street in New York City on 11 September, and no further information, at this late date, can be obtained. No obituaries have been found.
His first individual appearance in the Watertown City Directory (for 1898 p. 73, pub. 1897) was: "Roberts, J.L., telegrapher, bds [boards at] 6 Emmett" [at the home of his parents]. He was 18 years old.
He married Maude A. Argersinger (b. 30 October 1878, daughter of Harvey and Nelia Argersinger) on 29 December 1897 in Watertown.
Joe and Maude would have four children: Jerome Merritt (called "Merritt") Roberts (1898-1964); Marjorie Roberts Payne (1900-1994) Stanton Harvey Roberts (1905-1984); and Warner (called "Wilber") Roberts (1910-1959).
Around 1900-1904 Joe worked as a telegrapher and telephone operator for a broker's office in Watertown and the family lived in a rented house at 38 Maple Street, two doors down from the home of his parents and two younger sisters. A family story says he also ran a "bucket shop" (dispensing alcohol illegally) and had to leave Watertown suddenly.
The family moved to Brooklyn, New York (where the two younger boys would be born) settling at 6 Willow Street in Columbia Heights. Joe got a job as a telegrapher for the local newspaper. He was a man large in stature and had many friends. Eventually he found his way to Wall Street where he met many influential people, learned to enjoy "the high life," and made and lost much money while working as a stockbroker. By 1915 the family was wealthy and living at 609 Seventh Avenue. Daughter Marjorie was Queen of the Coney Island Mardi Gras that year, and Jerome was a member of the Brooklyn Moose Lodge No. 69. Circa 1916-1920 they lived at 309 Sixth Avenue.
Not much is known about the final years of Jerome Roberts. After meeting many affluent and influential women from the U.S. and Europe in the course of his work, Joe left Maude (they were separated but never divorced) and wanted no further contact with his children. His mother in her old age (early 1920's) proudly kept his photo displayed in her home as the last surviving son and the most prosperous and successful of her children, but after her death Joe's sisters, by the 1940's, did not know his whereabouts and never learned what became of him.
Joe was last known by his family to have been living in Trenton, New Jersey in 1937. He worked for C.F. Hudson, and also had an office in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Jerome Lewis Roberts died, at the age of 60 years, on 8 September 1939 in Manhattan, New York at Presbyterian Hospital (today Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital). It appears he entered the hospital for a relatively uncomplicated surgery and died there of a cerebral hemorrhage. His last residence was 421 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, shared with a woman described on his death certificate as Helen Roberts, his wife. He was cremated (Cremation No. 22532) by the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, New Jersey the following day. The ashes were mailed "Parcel Post" to the Wenner & Whitworth Funeral Home, 353 W. 46th Street in New York City on 11 September, and no further information, at this late date, can be obtained. No obituaries have been found.
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