Rash's Surname Index

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Notes for Roberts VAUX

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Roberts Vaux (1786-1836) became judge of the court of common pleas of Philadelphia, 1835; was was a founder of the state public school system and of several benevolent local organizations; a penologist of note, and author of memoirs of Benjamin R. Smith, Benjamin Lay, Ralph Sandiford and Anthony Benezet; also "Notices of the Original and successive Efforts to improve the Discipline of the Prison at Philadelphia" (1826). He was of Quaker descent.

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