The Thomas McRoberts was a 102 ton sternwheel steam ferry built at new Albany, Indiana in 1865 and operated in LaCrosse, WI.
The Thomas McRoberts was dismantled in 1880. The machinery was placed on shore near LaCrescent Landing and the hull was abandoned close by in the river.
A wreck on the 1894 Mississippi River Commission chart number 172, may be the Thomas McRoberts.