Solano County Biographies

JAMES ROE ROGERS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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was born in Kentucky, November 14, 1826, and, at the age of fourteen, moved with 
his parents to Missouri, where he remained until Spring of 1850, when he 
emigrated to California, making the trip across the plains with ox teams.  He 
first settled in Sacramento, where he bought a hotel on the road leading from 
that city to Bear river, Grass valley and Nevada.  This business he followed 
until early in 1857, when he left for Poor Man�s, Nelson and Hopkins� creek, on 
Feather river, and from there to Middle Yuba, where he worked until the Fall, 
whence he proceeded to the southern mines.  In the Spring of 1853, he paid a 
visit to the State of Missouri, once more crossing the plains in the Fall of the 
following year and located in Santa Rosa valley, Sonoma county, engaging in 
stock raising.  In the Fall of that year he purchased a farm of five hundred 
acres in Elmira township, on which he now resides.  Mr. Rogers married, first, 
in Sacramento, September 15, 1853, Miss Mary Ann Williams, she died June 4, 
1865; and secondly, January 14, 1866, Miss Laura C. Church, of Dixon, who was 
born June 15, 1844.  His family consists of six children, four by his first and 
two by his second wife; their names are:  Ann Eliza, born October 9, 1854, died 
January, 1857; Commodore Perry, born February 17, 1857; Seldon M., born April 
26, 1859; Zilla N., born September 25, 1861; Celia May, born May 30, 1873; and 
Bertie Agnes, born January 16, 1876.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 463

[Transcriber�s note: This biography was in the section on Vacaville, not the 
Elmira section.]