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J. W. Rogers, M. D., was born near his present residence in 1832. His father, Dr. Jubilee Rogers, was born in North Carolina, in 1784, and was married to Harriett Davis, who was also a native of North Carolina and born in 1793. She died in 1858, having borne eight children, four of whom are living. The family came to Hickman County, Tenn., in 1825, but in 1826 permanently located in Weakley County. They were among the very early settlers, and became the owners of 640 acres of land. The father was one of the leading physicians of the county for about twenty years, and died in 1855. His children who are living are John, a lawyer of Dresden; Peleg, a physician residing near Dresden; Benjamin, who is a farmer of the county, and Dr. J. W. Rogers, who was educated in the Dresden Academy, and made his home with his parents until he was twenty-four years of age. About 1853 he began studying medicine, his brother Peleg being his preceptor, and in 1854 and 1855 attended medical lectures in the Louisville (Ky.) University. In 1857 he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Penn., and graduated as an M. D. a year later. After his return he and Dr. T. J. Frazier became partners and continued such for two years. In 1863 he located in Dresden, and up to the present time has been a prominent physician and resident of the town and county. In 1861 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirty-second Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and after one year’s service returned home. June 29, 1871, he married Miss Edwinie Riggs, who was born in Weakley County, April 19, 1852, and by her he became the father of two children: Lucille and Edwinie. Dr. Rogers is a useful member of society and has been a life-long Democrat in politics. He belongs to the Masonic and I. O. O. F. fraternities, and his wife is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.