Bio of Rogers, Charles Frederick (b.1831) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Rogers, Charles Frederick, (page 1278), mayor of Lake City, is descended
from an English family that settled in Virginia about two hundred years
ago. He was born at Barnstead Parade, New Hampshire, November 17, 1831.
Charles Harris Rogers, the father of this subject, was a native of New
Jersey, and married Abigail S., daughter of Robert Copp, of New Hampshire.
The father was two terms a member of the New Hampshire state senate. In
1849 Charles F. Rogers set out to carve his fortune, having been fitted
for the battle of life by a common-school education. After seven years
spent as clerk and bookkeeper at Lowell, Massachusetts, he went into the
clothing trade in Boston. Subsequently he spent two years in business in
Nashua, New Hampshire. In the spring of 1857 he came west and occupied
three years as a clerk in Columbus, Wisconsin. On November 1, 1860, at the
latter point, he was united in matrimony to Miss Alice R., daughter of
Horace C. and Julia A. Cooper. In August of that year he opened a drygoods
store in Lake City, in partnership with Mrs. Rogers father. In the year
1862 he went into the agricultural implement business in connection with
the drygoods business. He conducted a successful business here in this
line for thirteen years, but kept the implement business up until 1880,
and retired to engage in other and lucrative pursuits. He is at present a
stockholder and director of the First National Bank, and is well known for
business integrity and acumen. Also stockholder in the First National Bank
of Wabasha, and vice-president. He was elected mayor of the city in 1883;
was the candidate of the republican party for state legislator in 1878. He
was one of the original members of the Masonic lodge here, having become
connected with that order in Columbus, Wisconsin; is a regular supporter
of the Congregational church, of which Mrs. Rogers is a member. The latter
is an accomplished lady, and a leader in social and church affairs. Three
daughters have been given to grace the handsome home of Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers, and christened Helen Julia, Alice Josie and Etta May. They are all
becoming musicians.