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J. W. ROGERS, farm and stock; P. O. Covell; was born March 9, 1835, on a farm in Perry Co., Penn., remained there engaged in farming, working for people by month and day; his father was a weaver by trade, was born in 1806; married, June 19, 1827, to Elizabeth Waterson, born in Perry Co., Penn. J. W. Rogers was third son of W. L. Rogers, and, in 1847, he came with his parents to Peoria, Ill., settling there for four years, his father engaging in weaving and teaming, and thus employed his son; they next moved to a farm near Peoria, renting of Charles Denton for four years; he then came to Funk’s Grove Township, remaining five years farming; he then, with his father, bought the present farm of 160 acres, which they have earned by their own labor and management, was married, in 1862, to Nancy A. Hull, born in Illinois in 1841. Mr. Rogers has worked by the month at $10, the receipts of which he has frugally used, has grown from a poor boy to a manhood accompanied by plenty of the world’s sustenance. He and his wife have not forgotten the eternity of life, and have been active members of M. E. Church some time; have four children, viz., Lelia, Louis E., Jesse, Eddy; deceased — Ollie. His father and mother live with him.