Rogers, Rev. Caleb Smith of Bennington, Bennington Co, Vt ******************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ******************************************************************* File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by (c) 1998 Courtesy of David C. Young, PO Box 152, Danville, Maine 04223 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copy from "Free Baptist Cyclopaedia" Historical & Biographical by Rev G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M. Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co. 1889 page 577 Rogers, Rev. Caleb Smith, was born in Bennington, Vt., March 14, 1791. His parents, Nehemiah and Lydia (Smith) Rogers, moved to Luzerne County, PA., at an early day. He was converted in western New York when twenty-seven years of age under the labors of Rev. J. Parinenter, and licensed at the Bethany Q. M. Jan. 24, 1825. A year later he was ordained. He labored in Genesee and Livingston Counties. Until 1836, at Freedom, N. Y., until 1841, and, having moved to Sparta, Pa., in the Washinton and French Creek Q. M's. Until his death at Greenfield, Pa., Aug. I5, 1879. Here, though so aged, he had preached only the Sabbath before. He traveled extensively, and was well known and highly estestmed throughout this region.