Rodgers, J. W.

RODGERS, WILSON

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/5/2013 at 06:59:12

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

RODGERS, J.W.—Jackson Twp—pg 661-2. Grocer, of the firm of Rodgers Brothers. Was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, September 17, 1836. He two years later moved with his parents to Jefferson county, Ohio, where he lived until he was seventeen years old, when he started out to make his own way in the world. In 1856 he came west to Marshall county, and in the following March, 1857 he came here, working on a saw-mill. Afterward he attended Iowa College for one term; then in 1863 he started his present business, in which he has been very successful. He was married in this place October 29, 1865, to Miss Emily Wilson, youngest daughter of Gideon Wilson, who came here in 1848. Their family consists of two sons and one daughter: Wilson G., Mabel, Eugene K.