Santa Clara County Biographies


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F. S. ROGERS
 
            F. S. Rogers, of the firm of Morey & Rogers in Gilroy, was born in 
Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts, August 15, 1822.  His parents were 
Obadiah and Lydia (Reed) Rogers, both of whom belonged to old Massachusetts 
families.  They are both dead.  In 1832, when ten years of age, his parents 
removed to Lenawee County, Michigan, where he received his education and 
subsequently taught school.  In 1848 he went to Georgetown, in Scott County, 
Kentucky, and engaged in teaching there, and two years later crossed the plains 
to California, arriving at Placerville, September 2, 1850.  Here he engaged in 
mining and also practiced dentistry.  At the end of six years he returned to the 
Eastern States and practiced his profession for nine months, when he came again 
to California and located in El Dorado County, where he worked at dentistry and 
also engaged in the business of running a saw-mill.  This mill was unfortunately 
destroyed by fire, whereby a heavy loss was sustained.  Consequently, in search 
of fresh fields for his energy, he came to Santa Clara County, in 1866, and 
located his family temporarily in Santa Clara, but removed to Gilroy September 
4, 1867.  About this time he entered into partnership with J. C. Zuck for the 
purpose of conducting a real-estate business, and later Mr. Hoover joined the 
firm, when the style of the firm became Zuck, Rogers & Hoover.  He was largely 
instrumental in opening many of the prominent thoroughfares in Gilroy.  The firm 
of Morey & Rogers was organized in September, 1887, to do a general real-estate 
and insurance business.
            In his political affiliations, Mr. Rogers is a Republican.  He was 
married October 23, 1856, to Dency C. Wilder, a native of New York, by whom he 
had three children, namely:  Edward O., born August 29, 1861, died September 17, 
1863; Fanny W., born August 9, 1865; and Eugene F., May 15, 1868.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 309
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy