Tuscola-Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Rogers, George W. 1853 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE W. ROGERS. Our subject has successfully engaged in the mercantile
business at Reese, for sometime. He is a son of Isaac H. and Mary (Youmans)
Rogers, natives of Canada and New York respectively. They removed to Wisconsin
in 1851 and there George W. was born May 27, 1853. The following year Mr. Rogers
moved back to Canada, his wife having died at the birth of our subject.

  George W. Rogers was reared on a farm and remained with his father until the
age of nine years, when he was sent to Denmark Township, Tuscola County, to live
with his aunt and uncle. Two years later his father again married and they
settled in Tuscola County, making a home for the child for the next three years.
The elder Mr. Rogers was a tanner by trade. Having trouble with his eyes he was
compelled to relinquish his work, and young George entered the family of Mr.
Slafter and was with him for one year. At the end of that time, his father
having removed to a forty-acre farm in Denmark Township, our subject went to
care for him and to manage the farm. He remained there one year and then started
out in life for himself, being variously employed.

  In 1878 our subject went to Hunter's Creek and engaged in farming for John
Clark, having the superintendency of a gang of thirty-five men. He then was
engaged by Stanley, Henderson & Co., at Farmers' Creek during the winter of
1879-80. He afterward went to the lumber woods in Northern Michigan, remaining
there until the spring of 1880, when he returned to Denmark Township, when he
assumed the duties and responsibilities of married life, taking to wife Flora
Hubbard, a daughter of Obadiah Hubbard, a native of Canada, where she was born
May 28, 1855. This lady became the mother of two children, Lawrence B., and a
daughter who died in infancy. Mrs. Flora Rogers died in August, 1882.

  December 18, 1885, our subject was married to his present wife, Alice Henry, a
daughter of William and Mary Henry. This union has resulted in the birth of
three children—Melvin E. and Harry are surviving; the other child died in
infancy. Mrs. Alice Rogers was the mother of one son by her first husband, whose
name was J. Best; her son is named William H. Best. In 1883 Mr. Rogers began
selling agricultural implements for Eddy &e Streeter of Bay City, and in 1884 he
began selling goods for a Saginaw firm, also binders for Miller & Co., and in
the fall of 1884 he put in a stock of hardware in which business he has ever
since been engaged. Politically, our subject is a Democrat. He is now filling
the office of Justice of the Peace and also Township Clerk and has been
Councilman. He has also received the appointment of Notary Public from the
Governor of Michigan. Socially he is a member of the Tent No. 183 K. O. T. M.
and has been Commander of the same for the past three years. He is also a member
of Reese Court, No. 727, I. O. F.


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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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