Roberts, William Charles

D.D. (Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1872), Presbyterian; b. at Alltmai, near Aberystwith, Wales, Sept. 23, 1832; graduated at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 1855, and at Princeton Theological Seminary 1858; became pastor of First Church, Wilmington, Del., 1858; First Church, Columbus, O., 1862; Second Church, Elizabeth, N.J., 1864; Westminster Church, Elizabeth, N.J., 1866; elected corresponding secretary of the Board of Home Mi ions, New-York City, 1 881. He was chairman of the committee which laid the foundations of the AVooster University, O.; declined the presidency of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 18S2; declined a profe orship in Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Penn., and accepted the presidency of Lake Forest University, 111., 1886; was moderator of synods of Ohio (1864) and New Jersey (1875); member of the first (Edinburgh, 1877) and third (Belfast, 1884) councils of the Reformed Churches, and read paper on American colleges; was trustee of Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., from 1859 to 1863, and has been trustee of College of New Jersey, Princeton, since 1866. He is the author of a series of letters • on the great preachers of Wales, translation of the Shorter Catechism into Welsh, and a number of occasional sermons.