Introduction

Biography

Brian was the son of Da­ni­el Ro­berts and Ka­the­rine Burr, and hus­band of Sar­ah Til­ton Mi­not (mar­ried Sep­tem­ber 7, 1910, Con­cord, New Hamp­shire).

While Ro­berts was still at home, his fa­mi­ly moved to Bran­don, Ver­mont, and from there to Con­cord, New Hamp­shire, where he gra­du­at­ed from Con­cord High School.

He then stu­died at a boys’ pre­pa­ra­to­ry school in Ply­mouth, New Hamp­shire; gra­du­at­ed from Tri­ni­ty College, Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut; and com­plet­ed theo­lo­gi­cal stu­dies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ox­ford, Eng­land.

While in Eng­land, he spent va­ca­tion time in the slums of East Lon­don, work­ing at Ox­ford House un­der Ar­thur Win­ning­ton-In­gram (lat­er Bi­shop of Lon­don).

Upon re­turn to Am­eri­ca, Ro­berts served five years as a mis­sion­ary in Spo­kane, Washington. He was or­dained in 1898, and lat­er be­came ca­non of All Saints’ Church in Spo­kane. He found­ed St. Ste­phen’s School in Spo­kane, and was as­so­ci­ated for two years with a church in Che­lan, Wash­ing­ton.

He then tra­veled in the Ha­wai­ian Is­lands. Re­turn­ing to the main­land due to poor health, he was placed in charge of the Church of the Good Shep­herd, Barre, Ver­mont. Lat­er, he was rec­tor at St. Ann’s Church, Dor­ches­ter (Dor­set?), Ver­mont, then served at St. Mark’s Church, Au­gus­ta, Maine, for eight years.

From there he went to West­bo­ro (?), where he was rec­tor of St. Step­hen’s Church (pos­si­bly St. Ste­phen the Mar­tyr Epis­co­pal Church, Wa­ter­bo­ro, Maine).

In World War I, he per­formed com­mu­ni­ty work in Pe­ters­burg, Vir­gin­ia, where he be­came po­pu­lar due to his phi­lan­thro­pic work.

Roberts was a Ma­son, and a mem­ber of the Sons of the Am­eri­can Re­vo­lu­tion and the Sons of Ve­ter­ans.

Based on his Bos­ton Globe obit­ua­ry