El Dorado County Biographies


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CALVIN S. ROGERS
 
            Is a son of William and Hannah (nee Fox) Rogers, he was born on the 
28th day of October, 1827.  His parents were farmers, and young Calvin was 
reared on the farm.  In the month of August, 1849, he sailed under Captain Hale 
in the ship Alex Coffin, around Cape Horn to California.  He arrived in San 
Francisco in January, 1850.  He went on an old whale boat to the mouth of the 
Merced river and there disposed of the boat and packed into the mines in 
Mariposa county.
            In 1850 he left the southern mines and came to Salmon Falls, thence 
to Forbestown and Rich Bar on the Feather river, after several attempts at 
Forbestown and Salmon Falls; he finally came to Greenwood creek, and began 
mining in company with Buck and Reed.  Later he bought a ranch on Alder creek, 
kept a boarding house two years at Michigan Bar, and in 1855 he purchased an 
interest in the ranch he now owns of 160 acres in a beautiful little valley.  On 
the 10th day of November, 1881, he was united in marriage to Rachael Culbertson, 
a daughter of Israel and Sarah C. Hodgkin, who was born in Maine, in 1832.  She 
came to California in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are both members of the Pilot 
Hill Grange of which she is the organist.
 
Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California with Illustrations & 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men & Pioneers - Oakland, Cal. - Paolo 
Sioli, Publisher, 1883. p � 261-262
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler