ANTHONY ROGERS
Though not a resident of Missaukee county, Michigan, as long as many of his neighbors, none stand higher in general esteem than does the subject of this sketch. Mr. Rogers is a native of New Brunswick, Canada, where he was born on March 12, 1846. His parents, Anthony and Margaret (Sweet) Rogers, were New Englanders by nativity,and the subject's great-grandfather was an eye-witness to the throwing over-board of the tea in Boston harbor, being a very young man at the time. The subject's parents came from New Brunswick to Manistee, Michigan, in 1856, and remained there until their deaths, his occurring at the age of seventy-six years and the mother's at the age of eighty-six. The subject was the fourth born of their ten children and was but eight years old at the time of the family removal to Michigan. He has been from his sixteenth year engaged in the lumbering business an is considered an expert in this line. In 1883 Mr. Rogers left Manistee and went to Mecosta county, this state, and four years later went to Clare county, this state, where he remained for nine years. In 1896 he came to Missaukee county and settled in Norwich township, where he has since resided with the exception of four years in Lake City.

He is the owner of eighty acres of good land in section 26, Norwich township, forty acres of which he has improved and on which he grows abundant crops of all the products suited to the soil and climate. He is progressive in his methods and has achieved a distinctive success in his operations. In the fall of 1901 Mr. Rogers was elected to the responsible office of treasurer of Missaukee county, and so satisfactory were his services that in the fall of 1903 he was re-elected to the position. He also held the office of supervisor of Norwich township for two terms. Mr. Rogers was married at Manistee, Michigan on January 25, 1872, to Miss Jane Elizabeth Miller, a native of that county and the daughter of Oliver and Jane (Humphrey) Miller, natives of New York state. Fraternally Mr. Rogers is affiliated with the Free and Accepted Masons, Knights of Pythas, Knights of the Modern Maccabees and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while religiously he is with his wife, a member of the Presbyterian church. All movements looking to the betterment of the community along moral, social, or educational lines find warm supporters in Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and because of their many eminent personal qualities they have won and retain the friendship of all who know them
Contributed by Ida Recu
Biographical History of Northern Michigan by B.F. Bowen & Co. 1905, pp 670-671)