Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Rogers, Charles B. December 4, 1852 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.41-42  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present  

        CHARLES B. ROGERS, president of the Consolidated Grocery Company, one 
of the large and important wholesale concerns of Jacksonville, has been 
actively and prominently identified with business affairs in this city for the 
past thirty-five years. He was born at Pittsboro, North Carolina, December 4, 
1852, and is a son of JOHN JACKSON ROGERS and JOANNA ELIZABETH (LUTTERLOH) 
ROGERS, both likewise natives of North Carolina, where the respective families 
were founded in an early day. JOHN J. ROGERS owned and operated one of the 
excellent plantations in his native state at the time when the Civil War began, 
but he promptly subordinated all personal interests and entered the service of 
the Confederate States. He enlisted in a cavalry regiment, and with the same 
entered into active service in Virginia. He took part in many engagements, and 
while with his command in front of Petersburg, in 1864, he was captured by the 
enemy and was taken to the Federal prison at Point Lookout, where his death 
occurred prior to the close of the war, he having been detailed as a cavalry 
scout and having made a record of gallant service. CHARLES LUTTERLOH, maternal 
grandfather of the subject of this review, was an officer in the War of 1812.
	CHARLES B. ROGERS was the firstborn and only son in a family of four 
children. His three sisters are still living. He gained his youthful education 
in the schools of his native town and in a scientific academy. At the age of 
seventeen years, in 1869, he came to Florida and took a clerical position at 
Cedar Keys, in the employ of the Florida Railroad. His salary was $25 a month, 
and after a service of about eight months he engaged in the general merchandise 
business at Cedar Keys. About one year later he there established himself in 
the wholesale grocery business and in 1886 he came to Jacksonville and 
established the wholesale grocery house of the C. B. Rogers Company. He 
developed a substantial and prosperous business, and in 1899 he became also one 
of the organizers of the Florida Naval Stores & Commission Company, of which he 
was president. In 1902 he effected a combination of his own and other similar 
interests by organizing the Consolidated Grocery Company, of which he has since 
continued the president, and his able and progressive executive policies have 
in inured greatly to the upbuilding of the large and prosperous business of 
this representative wholesale house of the Florida metropolis. He is a director 
of the Florida National Bank, is one of the influential and honored members of 
the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, of which he was one of the organizers, 
and he is a member also of the local board of trade. Mr. Rogers is a loyal 
supporter of the principles of the democratic party, is a member of the 
Seminole Club, the Florida Country Club and the Florida Yacht Club, and he 
served two terms as exalted ruler of Jacksonville Lodge, Benevolent and 
Protective Order of Elks. He and his wife are earnest communicants of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church.
	Mr. Rogers has found time and opportunity to exercise influence in 
connection with civic affairs of local order and to take part in the councils 
of his political party. In 1898 he was elected to the State Senate, where he 
made a characteristic record of loyal service in the promotion of wise and 
constructive legislation, he having refused to become a candidate for 
reelection at the expiration of his term. He has served as a member of the 
board of election commissioners of Duval County, and in 1917 he was elected a 
member of the city council, and office of which he continued the incumbent four 
years.
	On 1 June, 1875, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Rogers and Miss 
MARY A. COACHMAN, who was born and reared in the State of South Carolina. Of 
this union have been born eight children: MARY F. is the wife of R. F. 
MITCHELL, of Pensacola, this state, and they have three children: FRANCES, 
CHARLES B. and MARY B. CHARLES B., Jr., resides at Richmond, Indiana, and has 
one son, CHARLES B., III. CAROLINE is the wife of J. D. BOWER, of New York 
City, and they have five children. EDGAR H., of Jacksonville, married FLORENCE 
BISBEE, and they have five children. FRANK resides at Jacksonville, the maiden 
name of his wife having been FLORENCE STOCKTON. JOANNA E. remains at the 
parental home. ALONZO C., of Jacksonville, married Miss ANNA BUDD. WINNIFRED is 
the wife of JOHN L. HOLMES, of Jacksonville.


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