[1] While in college, Roberts joined the Delta Psi fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa.

[1][2] While studying in Europe, Roberts was a correspondent for several newspapers in the United States.

[1] A Republican, Roberts began a career in politics and government when he was appointed reporter for the Vermont Senate's sessions of 1874, 1878 and 1880.

[1] He then resumed residence in Burlington, where he practiced law in partnership with his father.

[2] For several years before his death, Roberts was the University of Vermont's oldest living graduate.

[2] Roberts's funeral took place at the Congregational church on College Street, and honorary pallbearers included Guy W. Bailey, Harland B. Howe, James Edmund Burke, Clarence H. Beecher, and John Holmes Jackson.