Los Angeles-San Francisco County CA Archives Biographies.....Rogers, Claude W. 1897 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    CLAUDE W. ROGERS, well known and successful merchant of Santa Monica, was
born at Shawneetown, Johnson County, Kansas, July 31st, 1897. His father, Walton
Rogers, a native of Kentucky, born in Gallatin County, was a Doctor of Medicine.
He emigrated with his wife to Kansas in 1864. In 1869 they returned to Carrol
County, Kentucky, and located in the town of Ghent, where young Rogers grew up.
At sixteen years of age he went to Denver, Colorado, and worked for various
commercial establishments as an accountant. He came to California and to San
Francisco in 1893, where he spent three years. In 1896 he came to Santa Monica,
taking a position with A. F. Johnston, merchant. Later, for two years, he became
manager of the business. In 1906 the A. F. Johnston Company was incorporated
and. Mr. Rogers became a director thereof. Upon the untimely death of Mr.
Johnston, Mr. Rogers succeeded to the presidency of the corporation.

    The A. F. Johnston Company is extensively engaged in the wholesale and
retail grocery business, being the most progressive and prosperous in its line
in the city of Santa Monica.

    Mr. Rogers married in the city of Santa Monica in the year 1900, Miss Grace,
daughter of the venerable Thomas H. Elliott, a most highly repected pioneer of
Santa Monica. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have one daughter, Arta. Mr. Rogers is a
member of the F. and A. M. and the B. P. O. E. The family home is 928 Fourth
Street.


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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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