Death of George B. Roberts
A long-time employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company and former Puget Sound Agricultural Company manager dies in Cathlamet.
George B. Roberts, who came to this country about 1830 as a clerk in the employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company, in whose service he remained for many years, and afterwards had charge of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company’s farm until the withdrawal from American soil, died suddenly on Friday evening at Cathlamet, where he has resided some fifteen years. He was an Englishman by birth and an honorable, upright man, well known and much respected by old settlers. He leaves one son.
“He was an Englishman by birth and an honorable, upright man, well known and much respected by old settlers.”
Roberts represents the transitional generation of Puget Sound history, serving as an employee of the British-controlled Hudson's Bay Company before the territory became fully Americanized. His death marks the passing of the era where the region was a contested colonial landscape between global empires.
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