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Calvin J. Rogers was born in Hickman County, Tenn., July 3, 1823, the eldest of eleven children born to the marriage of John W. Rogers and Patience Tansil. The father was born in North Carolina, July 5, 1798, and there married. He came to Tennessee residing for a few months in Hickman County, where our subject was born. From that time until 1848 he resided in Weakley County, and at the latter date moved to the Lone Star State where he died in 1853. The mother was born in North Carolina, February 20, 1802 and died in Texas in June, 1882. Calvin J. Rogers received a common school education, and has made farming his chief business through life. October 9, 1845, he wedded Mary A. Gleason, daughter of W. W. Gleason, who was a prominent merchant of Dresden, Tenn., born in Virginia in 1804, and died near Dresden in 1865. To Mr. and Mrs. Rogers seven children were born, only the following two of whom are living: Jennie L. (Mrs. Lee C. Taylor) and Mary Calvina (Mrs. J. M. Moore). Their mother was born in Gibson County, September 3, 1826. Mr. Rogers served in the Confederate Army and belonged to a select company in the Trans-Mississippi Department. This company, being of superior drill and equipment, became a bone of contention between Gen. Wharton and Col. Bailor, resulting in the former’s death. Mr. Rogers served two years and was paroled. He is a Democrat, a Royal Arch Mason, and he and wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He owns 700 acres of land and a splendid residence in a beautiful location.