A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 ROBERT L. ROACH, head of Roach Investment Company, is one of the active and prominent younger business men of Muscatine, which is his native city and the Iowa locality with which the Roach family have been identified for three generations. Mr. Roach is a son of William LeRoy and Margaret (McCarthy) Roach and was born at Muscatine February 27, 1894. More extended reference is made to his father in the preceding sketch. His father died December 18, 1916 and his mother in 1909. Robert L. Roach attended parochial schools, for three years was a student in St. Mary's College in Kansas, and completed a four years' liberal education in Notre Dame University of Indiana in 1915, being president of the senior class in that year. Throughout the years since he left college he has been interested in the lumber business. In 1916 he went to Live Oak, Florida, to enter the employ of the Standard Lumber Company and in 1917 was elected secretary. On returning to Muscatine in 1922 Mr. Roach became associated with the Roach & Musser Sash & Door Company and the Roach Timber Company. He is still secretary of the Roach Timber Company and director of the Roach & Musser Sash & Door Company. However, since 1927 he has given most of his time to the investment business as head of the Roach Investment Company, with offices in the Laurel Building. Mr. Roach is a very popular member of the business and social community of Muscatine. For one year he was president of the Lions Club, and for three years was president of the Geneva Golf and Country Club and is a member of the Knights of Columbus and St. Mathias Catholic Church. He has been chairman of the finance committee of the Muscatine Welfare Association for the past three years and chairman of the joint committee of the Muscatine Service Club for the past two years. He married, December 27, 1915, Miss Julia S. Schneider, of Iowa City, daughter of A. J. and Mary (Hanley) Schneider. Her father is a member of Schneider Brothers, furniture dealers and undertakers of Iowa City. Mr. and Mrs. Roach have one son, William LeRoy, born in 1922. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=De cemailfooterNO62)