San Diego County
Biographies
DR. RALPH S.
ROBERTS
Dr. Ralph S. Roberts, interested in
research work and community betterment, divides his time between the city of
San Diego and his Camp ranch and is widely recognized as one of the most
popular citizens of San Diego county. He
was born in Keosauqua, Iowa, December 14, 1892, his parents being A. W. and
Caroline (Smith) Roberts, who died in that state in the years 1917 and 1932
respectively.
Dr. Roberts was a young man of
nineteen years when he came to California in 1910. Six years later, in 1916, he was graduated
from Stanford University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1917 the
University of California at Berkeley conferred upon him the degree of Master of
Arts. He also attended Columbia
University of New York for research work and studied abroad at the University
of London in England an at the Sorbonne in Paris. At the time of the World War he served as a
captain in the United States Army.
An active and influential
republican, R. Roberts was a delegate with Colonel Ed Fletcher to the
republican national convention held in Chicago in 1932. He is president of the Young Men’s Republican
League of San Diego county and a member of the republican state central
committee. His name is on the membership
rolls of several college fraternities and he belongs to the alumni associations
of Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic
bodies, including the Mystic Shrine. He
is past state vice commander of the American Legion and past post commander of
Mountain Empire Post, No. 363, of Campo, California, which he organized. Long a staunch champion
of the cause of education, he is past president of the high school board of the
Mountain Empire district. Dr. Roberts
went into the mountain district for the benefit of his health and resides on
the Roberts ranch in Campo.
Transcribed by
Mary Ellen Frazier.
Source:
California of the South Vol. V, by John Steven McGroarty,
Page 760, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2013 Mary Ellen Frazier.
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