CAPTAIN CHARLES ROGERS AND FAMILY 

Captain Charles Rogers was a native of Orford, N. H., born October 7, 1795. His father, Nathaniel Rogers, was a descendant of John Rogers, the martyr, and his mother, wife of Nathaniel, was Eunice Allen, a near relative of Colonel Ethan Allen, of Vermont. Captain Charles Rogers married Permelia H. Ramsey, a descendant of the fifth generation from Mrs. J Hannah Dustin, the heroic Indian captive of New England fame. Captain Rogers removed with his family from Haverhill, N. H., to this town, in the spring of 1816. These parents had eight sons and three daughters, of whom all, with the exception of two, lived to the age of maturity. Five sons and two daughters at this date, August, 1874, are still living.  Nearly all these children received instruction in Bradford Academy, and in the business of life have had a fair degree of success. Four of the sons, Charles, James, George and William, are lawyers. The two first named are located at Burlingame, Kansas; George, at Eureka, in that state ; and William at Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.  James was a graduate of Dartmouth College, in the class of 1851. In his adopted State he has several times been a member of the State Legislature, both of the House and the Senate, and for some years a member of the State Board of Education. The other son, Barton, is a clergyman, now located at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Jefferson Liberal Institute, a flourishing seminary of learning, located at Jefferson, Wisconsin, owes its origin to him.  In 1862, Lambard University, of Illinois, conferred on him the honorary degree of A. M.

On the breaking out of the Rebellion, Captain Rogers had six sons living, all patriotic young men, who devoted themselves to their country's service, and were all in the . war at the same time. George, who enlisted as a private, was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General. He was in several hotly contested battles, and several times slightly wounded. Barton served as Chaplain of the Fifteenth Illinois Infantry for nearly three years. All, with the exception of Thomas, survived the hardships and perils of the war, and lived to see the independence and integrity of our country preserved and firmly established ; he, brave fellow, lost his life in Arkansas.  As it regards the marriages and domestic relations of the sons and daughters of Captain Rogers, we are able to give only the following brief account. 

Charles married Miss Fannie Clark, of Patterson, N. J. They have four sons and one daughter.  James married Mary Harper, of Sandwich, Mass. They had one son and one daughter. After the decease of this, his first wife, he married a lady from Kinderhook, N. Y.  Barton married Miss Elizabeth C. Vedder, of Berlin, Wisconsin.   They have two sons and two daughters.  George married Miss Josie Carey, of Chicago, Illinois. They have one son. William married Miss Nettie Horton, of Bradford, Vt. They have two sons. Thomas, who died in the army, never married.  Elizabeth, a sister of the above named sons, married John L. Fitch, of Manchester, N. H. They had three daughters. The remains of this entire family repose side by side in the cemetery of Manchester.  Mira married Eleazer M. Hall, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., and is settled there. And Miss Emma is at this date still with her father in Bradford.

Mrs. Rogers, mother of this family, died December 15, 1870, at the age of sixty-nine years.  Captain Charles Rogers, at the age of seventy-nine years, still in very comfortable health, has through life been an honest, hard working man; from the beginning of the anti-slavery movement, one of its earnest promoters; and in him the temperance cause has invariably had a warm and steadfast friend. He is still living in the nice stone cottage, the only one in this village, which he built several years ago, enjoying the kind regards of all around him    Biographie Index

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