BIOGRAPHY: Hiram ROGERS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 598-599.

  HIRAM ROGERS, Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pa, Pa., son of John and Martha 
(Allison) Rogers, was born in Paradise township, Lancaster county, Pa., April 6, 
1827.  His paternal grandfather, James Rogers, came from Ireland in the latter 
part of the eighteenth century, and settled in Lancaster county.  He married and 
reared a family of eight children:  George;  William;  John;  Robert;  Margaret;  
Eliza;  Jane;  and Mrs. Thomas.  The maternal grandfather of Mr. Rogers was 
James Allison, a resident of Lancaster county, who married and raised these 
children:  Andrew;  George;  Ann;  and Martha.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Allison spent 
their entire lives in Lancaster county.  The children of John and Martha 
(Allison) Rogers were:  Hiram;  John, married to Keziah Callister, has three 
sons, Samuel, Vinton, and John;  Ann (Mrs. William Graham), of Venango county, 
has five children, Hiram, Lizzie, William, Jonathan, and Gertrude;  Catharine 
(Mrs. George Shellenberger) has no children;  Rebecca (Mrs. George Brand), 
resides in Mifflin county with her sons and daughters;  and George L.  Mrs. 
Rogers, mother of Hiram Rogers, died in Lancaster county at the age of sixty-
three years;  his father died in Venango county, and is buried near Oil City.
  At the early age of nine years Hiram Rogers was placed among strangers.  As he 
grew older he worked among the farmers, and was allowed the privilege of 
attending school during the winter months.  At the age of fourteen, he went to 
learn the trade of blacksmith, with Andrew Lowry, at a place then known as 
Puddington, in Lancaster county.  Here he served an apprenticeship of two and a 
half years, after which, going to New York, he entered the Navy, and went aboard 
the United States naval ship "Lexington."  He sailed around Cape Horn and landed 
at California.  Next he went to the Sandwich Islands, returning home on a 
whaling vessel, after an absence of six years, lacking one month and fourteen 
days.  He then worked at his trade for Abraham Witmer, and the following spring, 
in 1852, he came to Milroy, Mifflin county, and worked here for Samuel Kessler 
until January, 1853.  He next entered the employment of William Mann, with whom 
he continued for thirty-six years.  He is a Republican, and has served as 
associated judge and in various minor offices.
  Hiram Rogers was married October 12, 1853, to Eliza, daughter of Andrew and 
Martha (Ream) Mayben, of Milroy.  Their children were:  Albert;  Mary (Mrs. 
Jerome Smith), resides in Centre county, with one son, Hiram;  and Fernando, 
married to Charlotte Arvemoy, who has these children:  Margaret, died in 
infancy;  Bertha;  Blanche;  Harry;  and Lloyd.  In January, 1858, Mrs. Rogers 
died, and Mr. Rogers afterwards married Mary J., daughter of Adam and Elizabeth 
(Wagner) Baird.  Their children are:  Inez, died aged ten years and three 
months;  Emma E. (Mrs. William Stouffer), has seven children;  William, married 
to Alice Ayers, has one child, Andrew, who is married to Savannah Brown, and has 
four children;  and James, died aged six years and three months.
  Mrs. Rogers' grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. Baird, resided in Huntingdon county, 
the grandmother living to the age of one hundred and six.  Mrs. Rogers is the 
oldest of ten children.  Three have died, and the others are:  Susanna;  
William;  Eliza;  Caroline;  Margaret and Joseph.