Rogers, Bernard bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 719, Isabel Township
Bernard Rogers was born in 1844, in Lebanon, Warren Co., O., son of James H. and Ann Rogers, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Ohio. Emigration - in 1855 to Mason Co., Ill., and in 1874 to Fulton. Bernard is a graduate of Bryant & Stratton’s College, and has taught school considerably. During the war he served in the Quartermaster’s Department of the Cumberland. In 1867, at Havana, he married Anna M. Buck, born in 1844 in Mason Co. She is a member of the M. E. Church, and has been a school-teacher. Mr. R. owns 190 acres of land. Sec. 14. Democrat. P. O., Havana.