Crawford-Edgar-Clark County IL Archives Biographies.....Rogers, Chilton 1832 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  CHILTON ROGERS, furniture and undertaking, Hutsonville, is a native of Nelson
County, Ky., born March 12, 1832. His father, Greenberry Rogers, was a farmer,
born in Nelson County, Ky., in 1790, and died in Bardstown, the same county, in
1847. He enlisted in the war of 1812, but did not serve, the war ending before
he became engaged. Elizabeth Shelton, the mother of our subject, was born in
Maryland, and died in Grayson County, Ky., in 1861, aged seventy-three years.
Chilton Rogers was the ninth child of a family of eleven children born to his
parents. The first thirteen years of his life were spent on the home farm. His
education was limited to three days in the common schools. He has, however,
acquired a fair business education since by observation. At thirteen years of
age, he was apprenticed to his uncle, Felix Rogers, to learn the cabinet-maker's
trade, and served seven years with him, and afterward worked for a short time as
a journeyman at his trade in his native county, and then spent two years in
traveling over Kentucky, working only a few weeks in a place, his object being
to become more skillful at his trade. In 1853, he came to Terre Haute, Ind., and
there worked at his trade and carpentering for about five years; during the time
was employed in the car shops for one year. In 1858, he removed to Edgar County
Ill., where he remained only a few months, and then went to Clark County,
locating at York, where he remained five years. In 1863, he came to Hutsonville,
and entered the cabinet factory in the employ of J. A. Parker, and afterward
became his partner in the same business. In 1872, he bought a half-interest in
the Hutson Mill, with Mr. John Harness, and continued in that business for three
years. In 1875, he erected his present storeroom and cabinet shop, and has since
been engaged in the furniture and undertaking business. Mr. Rogers has been four
times married-in 1855, to Miss Jane Test, who died in 1866; in 1867, to Mary L.
Test, a sister to his first wife; she died in 1876, leaving three children, of
whom one is living-Charley. In 1876, he married Jane Wilson, who died in 1878,
leaving one child-Allie. In 1878, he married Bertina Everlett. Mr. Rogers has
served on the Town Board for two terms. Is a member of the A, F. & A M., I. O.
O. F. and K. of H. Politically, he is a Republican.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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