Biographies for Osage County Kansas

OSAGE COUNTY, KANSAS

BIOGRAPHIES

ROGERS, JAMES

James Rogers, was born at Oxford, N.H., October 18,1826. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1851, and taught school a short time afterward. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. After practicing in Patterson, N. J. he moved to Kansas, arriving in 1856 and settling in Burlingame. He was a free-state man, and like the rest suffered for his principles. He was regent of the Normal School 1867-69, was a member of the house of representatives of 1863, 1864, and 1869, and of the senate of 1867-68. He married Mary B. Harper in 1855. She died in 1873 and in 1874 he married Mrs. Anna L. Toby Heywood. Mr. Rogers died July 28, 1880. (Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society 1907-1908, Vol. X, edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary, State Printing Office, Topeka, 1908, page 267)