Address Delivered Before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, at Its Annual Meeting, on the Eighteenth of January, 1825
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Roberts Vaux was a descendant of a French family the members of which left their homeland in the seventeenth century and settled in Sussex, England.
His father, Richard, son of George Vaux, a London physician, emigrated to Philadelphia in his early youth and died there in 1790, at the age of thirty-nine, leaving two children, Roberts and Susannah, and his wife, Ann (Roberts), who was a descendant of one of William Penn's friends and companions, Hugh Roberts. Both the parents were Quakers.
Education
Roberts Vaux received his schooling at the Friends' Academy in Philadelphia.
Career
At eighteen, Vaux entered the employ of a highly respected merchant, John Cooke. Upon reaching his majority he set up a business of his own, which he carried on for a few years. The death of his sister in 1814 created in him an emotional crisis which resulted in his resolving to retire from active business and devote his life to the service of his fellow men. In a short time Vaux became associated with almost every worthy public and private activity for social welfare in his community. Profoundly interested in prison problems, he was one of the officers of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, which his father-in-law had helped to found. He prepared most of its memorials to the legislature and staunchly defended the system of separate confinement of prisoners.
In 1821, he was appointed to the commission which planned the Eastern Penitentiary, and it was he who drafted the legislation for its administration. Until his death he took an active interest in the work of this institution. Out of an address which he delivered before the Prison Society grew the movement for the establishment, in 1826, of a house of refuge for juvenile delinquents. His most eloquent and persuasive writing was in exposition and defense of penal reforms; among them may be mentioned Notices of the Original, and Successive Efforts, to Improve the Discipline of the Prison at Philadelphia, and to Reform the Criminal Code of Pennsylvania: with a Few Observations on the Penitentiary System (1826) and Reply to Two Letters of William Roscoe, Esquire, of Liverpool, on the Penitentiary System of Pennsylvania (1827).
Penology was but one of his many interests, however: he was a manager of the Pennsylvania Hospital; as a member of the building committee and later as a manager, he had an active part in the creation of the Frankford Asylum for the Insane; he assisted in the founding of an institution for the instruction of the blind and another for the deaf and dumb. An ardent advocate of temperance, he served as president of the Pennsylvania State Temperance Society, and as vice-president of the United States Temperance Convention. The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the Philadelphia Hose Company, and the Apprentices' Library Company numbered him among their founders. He assisted in the organization of the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Linnaean Society, the Franklin Institute, the Athenaeum, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; published papers on the locality of Penn's treaty; and wrote Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford (1815), and Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet (1817).
Political life apparently attracted him little. He served as a member of the Philadelphia common council (1814 - 16), but he declined in 1834 a presidential appointment as director of the Bank of the United States, to which he was violently opposed, and had earlier, 1832, declined an appointment as commissioner to treat with the "emigrating Indians west of the Mississippi River. " It was only at the insistence of his friends that he accepted, in the fall of 1835, the position of justice of the court of common pleas. He died in Philadelphia less than three months later.