Biography of Emmet Rodgers - Craighead Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1889.

page 353

Emmet Rodgers, editor of the Craighead County Sun, is the oldest son of
Calvin and Almedia Rodgers, and was born in Jonesboro, Ark., September
21, 1866. He attended the common schools of Jonesboro until thirteen
years of age, and went the term of 1881-82 to the Judson University.
Until sixteen years of age, he engaged in farm work, and assisted his
parents in the hotel. For three years he was a railroad brakeman, and in
the winter of 1887-88, engaged as clerk in general mercantile business in
Florida. Returning home in May, he became interested with Wrenn & Phelps,
in publishing the Craighead County Sun, and January 18, 1889, became sole
proprietor of that paper. He is one of Jonesboro's popular and promising
young business men, and has the talent and ability to accomplish whatever
he may undertake.