H.M. Rogers, Rapides Parish Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890

H. M. ROGERS belongs to the successful general mercantile firm of Rogers &
Hartier, of Welchton, La., and as a man of business is keen, shrewd and
enterprising.  He was born in Rapides Parish, La., in 1845, to David and
Clara (Curtis) Rogers, who were born in Ireland and Louisiana in 1812 and
1818, respectively, but when a boy the father was brought to the United
Sates by relatives, his home at first being in the Old North Sate.  He
afterward came to the Pelican Sate, and was here married about 1833, and in
this sate continued to make his home until his death, which occurred in
1855, he being a member of the Presbyterian Church and the A. F. & A. M.
fraternity at the time of his death.  His widow, who survives him, makes
her home with her son in Alexandria, and is an earnest member of the
Episcopal Church.  The paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister of
Ireland, and the maternal grandfather was a cotton planter in Rapides
Parish.  H. M. Rogers was attending school when the Civil War broke out,
and in 1862, when only sixteen years of age, he dropped his books to enlist
in the Confederate Army, becoming a member of Company K, Crescent Regiment,
afterward taking part in the battle of Shiloh.  In the latter part of 1862,
under the act excluding all persons under eighteen years of age from the
service, he was discharged and returned home.  He re-enlisted, however, in
1863, in the Second Louisiana Cavalry, and this time was on active duty
until the war was practically over, having taken part in the battle of
Pleasant Hill and numerous skirmishes.  He was at Alexandria at the time of
Lee's surrender.  The war crippled him badly financially, and after he
returned home he secured work as a steamboat clerk.  In 1867 he was married
to Mrs. Osborne, daughter of Joseph Duval, but his wife died in 1877, and
in 1883 he married Miss Fannie, daughter of William and Catherine Mace,
natives of Pennsylvania.  In 1869 Mr. Rogers first began planting where he
now lives, and in 1882 opened a mercantile establishment, forming, in 1884,
a partnership with A. Hartier, with whom he has since been associated,
their annual business amounting to $15,000.  Mrs. Rogers is a member of the
Baptist Church.  Mr. Rogers is the father of six children:  Charles (in
Texas), Florence, Daisy, Fannie, Henry and Una, all of whom are receiving
excellent educational advantages as they grow up.