Leander C. Rogers Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Fennimore, Biographical Sketches, Page 990 

LEANDER C. ROGERS, farmer and thresher; P. O. Fennimore; son of Joseph G. 
Rogers.  He was born in the town of Middlesex, Yates Co., N. Y., in 1833.  He 
came to Waukesha Co., Wis., in 1842.  In November, 1852, he came to Grant Co. 
with his father.  The latter, at that time, entered a quarter section of land in 
the town of North Lancaster, where his father settled in 1856, and where he 
resided till his death.  Leander C. came to Grant Co. permanently in 1854, and 
entered quarter of Sec. 25, in what is now the town of Mount Ida.  He has been a 
resident of this county since that time.  He settled in the village of Fennimore 
in the spring of 1874.  He was married to Emily A. Luse, born in Pennsylvania.  
They have three children - Seth C., Gra C. and Edna C.