ROBERTS, WILLIAM HENRY, an American Presbyterian clergyman, born at Holyhead, Wales, in 1844. He was educated at the College of the City of New York and at Princeton Theological Seminary, receiving honorary degrees from several American universities. From 1863 to 1865 he was statistician of the Treasury Department, and from 1866 to 1871, assistant librarian of Congress. In 1873 he was ordained a Presbyterian minister, and after some years as pas tor of a church at Cranford, N. J., he was librarian of the Princeton Theologi cal Seminary, from 1878 to 1886, and pro fessor of practical theology at the Lane Theological Seminary, from 1886 to 1893. In 1884, he became stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; in 1888, American secretary of the Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World; and in 1907, secretary of the Council of Reformed Churches in the United States. He also served as treas
urer of the Centenary Fund for Minis terial Relief (1888 to 1890), for the Anniversary Reunion Fund (1895 to 1897), and of the Twentieth Century Fund (1900 to 1902). In 1896, he was president of the Glasgow, Scotland, Pan Presbyterian Council; from 1903 to 1909, secretary of the Interchurch Conference on Marriage and Divorce; in 1905, presi dent of the Interchurch Conference on Federation, N. Y.; in 1907, moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly; and in 1918-19, chairman of the Confer ence on Organic Union. He published "History of the Presbyterian Church" (1888) ; "The Presbyterian System" (1895) ; etc., and edited "Minutes of the General Assembly" (34 volumes) (1884 to 1919), etc. He died in 1920.