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 Rogers,_Andrew_Jackson_Bio.pdf (264KB, MIME type: Image Information ANDREW JACKSON ROGERS Among the old families of Richland county whose members have been long numbered among the prominent and respected citizens here is the Rogers family, of which the subject of this review is a representative. He was born on Southwest square, in Shelby, Ohio, at the family home, which then stood on the present site of the high-school park. It was there that his grandfather built his first house. The natal day of A. J. Rogers was May 1, 1844. His grandfather, Almanzar Rogers [Almanza], was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, July 23, 1794, and died July 2, 1877. He was a carpenter by trade and also inspector of shingles and lumber at Pinchersville, Pennsylvania. He filled the position as postmaster. That town was named from the fact that Mr. Rogers pulled the end of shingles out with pinchers. He was also a farmer and local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal church and in fact was closely associated with the community in many lines of interest and activity. He had one hundred and sixty acres of land, but later sold sixty-seven acre. Upon the farm he continued to reside until his death and was a prominent and influential resident of the community. His neighbors were numbered among the pilgrims of Connecticut who came to the new world from England. His mother, Mrs. Rhoda Drake Rogers, was a descendant of the family to which Admiral Drake belonged and she came to Ohio with her son, Almanzar Rogers [Almanza], being at that time a widow. His family numbered eight daughters and three sons. The eldest of the family was Jehiel Rogers, who was born in Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1817. In early life he went to Berrien county, Michigan, where he served a term of apprenticeship at the carpenter’s trade with the man who built the first swing bridge in Chicago. Jehiel Rogers came to this county in 1840 and here joined his parents, who had arrived in 1839. He spent most of his life in this neighborhood, following the carpenter’s trade, and later he became interested in a sash factory, where he lost his money. Subsequently he operated his farm and afterward removed to the farm upon which Andrew J. Rogers now resides. Here he died December 18, 1888. He had long been a respected and worthy resident of the community and displayed in his life many good qualities. In early manhood he wedded Eliza Roberts, who was born November 2, 1815, in Brook county, Virginia, and in April, 1829, when thirteen years of age, was brought to Richland county by her parents, Richard and Ann Roberts, who spent their remaining days upon a farm adjoining the property of A. J. Rogers. Richard Roberts came to Ohio to fight the Indians and while at Fort Recovery contracted rheumatism, which so crippled him that he was never able to walk straight afterward. His daughter, Mrs. Rogers, survived her husband for about four years and passed away July 2, 1892. Andrew Jackson Rogers, their only child, was but two years of age when his parents removed from his birthplace to the place where W. R. Brooks now resides. They afterward lived for two years on a farm south of town on the Gamble road and Jehiel Rogers purchased forty acres of land from his father-in-law lying in Jackson township. This he cleared and made of it a good home, living there for sixteen or seventeen years. While spending his boyhood and youth under the parental roof, A. J. Rogers pursued his education in the public schools and was a pupil in the high school of Shelby. Following the removal of the family to the village, he began serving an apprenticeship at the machinist’s trade in 1863. He was employed for one year in the shops of the B. & I. Railroad at Galion and afterward went to Newark, Ohio, where he worked for two years in the Newark machine shops. On the expiration of that period he came again to Shelby, where he entered the shoe business, being associated with his father in that undertaking for two years. He afterward spent two years in the conduct of a sash factory and then resumed general agricultural pursuits, to which he has since given his time and energies. He has here ninety-two and three-quarters acres of land, less the strip on which the railroad has been built. It is the old homestead upon which his grandfather settled in June, 1839. A. J. Rogers cleared a part of this tract after coming here and now has a valuable and well improved farm, which has been his home since 1876. The place presents a neat and attractive appearance, giving every evidence of the care and supervision of the owner. On the 8th of March, 1866, Mr. Rogers was married to Miss Katherine Hammon, who was born near Rome, Ohio, in 1837, and died May 8, 1877, leaving one son, Albert, who is now a physician of Washington. On the 5th of November, 1880, Mr. Rogers was again married, his second union being with Miss Mary Gould, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, December 24, 1859, and there resided until her marriage, her parents being William and Anna Gould. She has become the mother of four children: Olive, Anna, Mamie and Jehiel. From the foregoing account it will be seen that Mr. Rogers is a representative of two of the oldest families in this part of the state and he has for sixty-four years been a witness of the succession of changes which have led to Shelby’s present development and to the substantial upbuilding of the entire county. While he has never sought to figure before the public in any light save that of a business man, he has in the control of this trade and agricultural interests manifested many sterling qualities, which have made him a valued resident of this part of the state. File historyLegend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete
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