Genesee County MI Archives Biographies.....Rogo, Charles 1836 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

CHARLES ROGO. The gentleman whose name is at the head of this sketch is the
owner of a tidy little farm located on section 3, Flushing Township, Genesee
County. It comprises sixty acres of land and is in excellent condition. Its
proprietor was born in Prussia, January 1, 1836. He is a son of Joakin and
Regina (Wyatt) Rogo, both natives of Prussia. Our subject's father was engaged
as a laborer upon a farm. He came with his family, which comprised his wife and
eight children, to America in 1842 and settled in Niagara County, N. Y., where
he was engaged as a farm laborer and later purchased a small place in the
township of Wheatfield. They lived there for some years and then removed to
Royalton in the same county, where they lived until the father's death. He was a
Democrat in politics, and in religious belief with his family belonged to the
Lutheran Church.

  The eight children that were included in the family were Fredericka, John,
Christ, Mena, William, Frederick, Charles and Caroline. Our subject received the
advantages offered by the public schools of Niagara County and when old enough
was engaged in work on the neighboring farms by the month. He continued to work
out until his marriage in 1859, his bride being Miss Jane E. Cobb, a native of
Akron, Erie County, N. Y. She was born December 19, 1836, and is a daughter of
Lucius and Electa (Whitney) Cobb, natives of New York and Vermont respectively.
He was a large farmer. Mrs. Rogo's father was one of the prominent men of Akron
and held many of the township offices. He was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, as is his wife who, at the age of eighty-four years, is a
resident of Akron.

  Our subject was the superintendent of a dairy after his marriage and also
worked in a mill. He rented a place for three years and later moved to Canada
and was engaged in farming for eighteen months and then in 1873 came to Michigan
and settled where he now lives. At that time there was not a tree cut on the
place. He built a log house which was 20x26 feet in dimensions and a story and a
half in height. Since then the work of improvement has progressed rapidly. He
has cleared off his farm and has a fine orchard and shade trees. Mrs. Rogo is
proud of the fact that she helped to saw the logs for the house. She was a brave
woman who was undaunted by difficulties that would have paralyzed the efforts of
many a weaker one of her sex. Her husband and one son had the ague when they
came here and were unable to do much work; then Mrs. Rogo stepped into the
harness and did everything that offered and was at all remunerative. For the
first three or four years they endured the privations of pioneer life. The
second year of their stay they procured a yoke of yearling steers and at the end
of the first winter traded for a three-year-old yoke of steers. They rented a
cow for a year for $10 and the calf became their own. Now Mr. Rogo has three
horses, two cows and ten sheep, also twenty-one hogs. There is no farm around
this vicinity that Mr. Rogo has not given a helping hand to log off. He and his
wife have been the parents of two children, both sons, whose names are Truman H.
and Endle C. Truman married Carrie Stone and resides in Flushing; they have one
son, Glenn. Endle married Nina Stephenson and resides in Flint; they have one
daughter, Neva D. Our subject is a Republican in politics and belongs to the
Farmer's Alliance. He has been Pathmaster for four years and is a good farmer of
this township.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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