Rogers, Lewis F.

ROGERS, ELSWORTH, BOYNTON, RAYMOND, CAMPBELL, THOMAS, MAE, DAVIDS, DRAPER, ROWELL, TEED

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PORTRAIT & BIOGRAPHICAL ALBUM OF CLINTON COUNTY, IOWA 1886 (CHAPMAN BROS.)  Containing full page portraits & biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county. (Also available on FHL film 1036331 Item 9)
LEWIS F. ROGERS
Lewis F. Rogers was born in Halderman Township, Ontario, Canada, march 18, 1817. He is the son of William and Catharine (Elsworth) Rogers. Miss Elsworth was the daughter of Joab and Sarah Elsworth.
Mr. Rogers was born in the State of New York in 1788, and was taken to Canada while an infant, and died in 1849, at the residence of his son, Lewis F., in Clinton County. His wife was born near Greenbush, N. J., in 1787, and went with her parents to Canada when she was 2 years of age, and died in Wisconsin in 1951. The husband followed the trade of a carpenter and came to Iowa the same year of his death, 1849, settling with his son, the subject of this sketch, on their present home, on section 1, Hampshire Township.
Our subject came to this county in 1845. At that time the country was largely unsettled, and hunting was amply rewarded by those who undertook it. Before this Mr. Rogers took for his partner in life Miss Sarah M. Boynton, who was born in Fletcher, Vt.; they were married Dec. 18, 1839, At Whitby, Ontario, Canada. She was the daughter of Abial and Jeanette C. Boynton. Her father was born Aug. 16, 1788, in West Boulston, Mass., and his parents were of English descent, Abial Boynton was the son of Abial and Lois (Raymond) Boynton, the latter born in Holden, Mass., Jan. 2, 1762. He died Sept 1, 1827, in Vermont.
Abial Boynton, Sr., was born Dec. 23, 1753, in Sterling, Mass., and died Dec. 17, 1810, at West Boylston. He was the son of Ephraim and Elizabeth Boynton. Ephraim Boynton was born Aug. 23, 1707, and died Aug. 23, 1778. Elizabeth Boynton died March 15, 1791. Jeanette C. Boynton was born in Londonderry, N. H., Nov. 1, 1791. She was the daughter of William and Agnes (Campbell) Thomas, the former of whom was born in Portsmouth, N. H., and the latter in Londonderry, same state. She was the daughter of Henry and Jeanette (Mae) Campbell. Henry Campbell, her father, was the Duke of Argyle, and was born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1712, died in 1807.
Mr. Lewis F. Rogers, our subject, was a pioneer of the early days, and brought the first two-horse breaking-plow into the county. He also sold the first fifty broadcast seeders brought into the county.
Lewis Rogers has been the father of nine children, of whom seven are living at the present writing. They are as follows: Haskel A. Rogers; Sarah A., wife of George B. Davids; Benjamin L.; Mary S., wife of George W. Hill; Imogene M., wife of Milton M. Draper; Jessie M., wife of E. C. Rowell; Lucy C., wife of Fremont H. Teed. In politics our subject is a Republican and has held many offices of trust in his township and county. He has been Supervisor and School Director and has 300 acres of land, all well improved and abundantly prolific. He is engaged in the breeding and selling of Alderney cattle, and also owns imported Norman horses and Cleveland bays. He owns four of the latter at the present writing. He has also improved real estate in Lyons and a residence on Pearl street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. As one of the pioneers Mr. Rogers came here with very little capital, but by dint of industry and energy he has, aided by his good wife, succeeded in gaining for himself and family a comfortable competency.
We take pleasure in this connection in presenting a view of Mr. Roger’s homestead. 

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