Imperial-Orange-Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Rogers, Linza B. 1875 - 
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Author: F. C. Farr (editor, 1918)

LINZA B. ROGERS.—Careful readers of this, the first standard history of Imperial
County, will find many names of prominent and influential ranchers mentioned
therein. Hence the declaration that the name of Linza B. Rogers, the subject of
this review, should be prominently displayed within these pages, as Mr. Rogers
is one of the Valley's most progressive and wide-awake citizens. He owns 320
acres of land in Water Company No. 5, at Brawley, which is noted for its
remunerative productiveness. Mr. Rogers was born in Orange County, October 27,
1875, being a native son, and came to Imperial County in the year 1906, which
makes him a pioneer of the Valley. Linza A. is the son of Ben and Orpha Rogers.
His father died when Mr. Rogers was yet in infancy. After a long and useful life
his mother passed away May 30, 1915, and is buried at Long Beach, California.
The body of Mr. Roger's father has been interred at Santa Ana, California. Linza
B. received his education at Long Beach, and left school at the age of thirteen
years. With characteristic foresight, Mr. Rogers has, to use an apt expression,
"been paddling his own canoe," ever since a boy, and what has come to him during
all those years of endeavor in the way of hard-earned success is due to his own
practical knowledge of the world and conditions in general. For ten years Mr.
Rogers worked for wages. Later he started to raise sugar beets in Los Angeles
County, which venture lasted for about ten years. After trying the grain-growing
business for a season, Mr. Rogers came to Imperial County, having filed on his
present property in the year 1903. At the time his holding was rough, desert
country, which Mr. Rogers leveled and made farmworthy. There was not a ditch
within one-half mile at the time and many overwhelming obstacles were naturally
encountered. However, Mr. Rogers valiantly stuck to his task and today has a
finely-appointed ranch in a high state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of
raising grain, has had good success with hogs and cattle, and at one time
totaled 1800 brooders on his place. Every tree on the place has been planted by
Mr. Rogers, and he has solved the water question by piping artesian water for a
distance of one mile. He has a fine residence on the home place, as pretentious
as it is modern, while all the outbuildings lend an attractive appearance to the
ranch in general. Politically Mr. Rogers has never aspired for office, but he
always votes for the right man at the right time and does not let party politics
sway him when a deserving man is seeking office. He was married at Long Beach,
California, November 27, 1902, to Miss Dora Belle Brady, daughter of John and
Mary Brady. Mrs. Rogers' father is buried in the Long Beach cemetery. Mrs. Brady
resides at Long Beach. As the result of their happy union two children have been
born to Mr. and Mrs. Rogers: Dorothea Leona, born at Long Beach, and Lillian
Rose, born on the home place in this county.

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THE HISTORY
OF
IMPERIAL COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
EDITED BY
F. C. FARR

IN ONE VOLUME
ILLUSTRATED
Published by ELMS AND FRANKS
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 1918


Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco


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