Theophilius Adam Wylie, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, IT'S HISTORY FROM 1820, WHEN FOUNDED, TO 1890 (Indianapolis, IN: Wm. B. Burford, Lithographer, Printer and Binder), 1890, p. 226. James Franklin Roberson, born September 9, 1836, in Crawford County, Indiana; died December 11, 1862, at Grantsburg, Indiana. Educated in the common schools of Crawford County. Degree-B. S. Occupation-teaching. Teacher in public schools of Paoli; also in Leavenworth where he was taken by the disease of which he died. Mr. Roberson was distinguished while at the university by his mathematical talents and was a contributor to the mathematical journals and solved several problems for which prices were given. In religion, a member of the Presbyterian Church.