WI BIO - Dunn Co - ROGERS, S. C.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 290

S. C. ROGERS, superintendent of boarding house of Knapp, Stout & Company, 
Downsville [Menomonie Township, Dunn County, Wisconsin], was born in 1835 in 
Wayne County, Pennsylvania, where he lived until fifteen years old, when he 
came to Wisconsin with his parents, Clayton and Triphonsa ROGERS. The family 
settled in the western part of Dane County [Wisconsin] in 1850. Clayton and 
Triphonsa ROGERS removed to Crawford County [Wisconsin] in 1853, where they 
lived until their deaths.

In 1862 Mr. S. C. ROGERS enlisted in the 31st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
and served until the close of the war, and was in active service during the 
whole term of his enlistment. His regiment belonged to the 20th Corps during 
the last part of the war, and marched with Sherman to the sea, the last 
engagement in which he participated being the battle of Bentonville. [The 
Civil War officially ended in April 1865.]

After the war he [S. C. ROGERS] returned to Crawford County [Wisconsin], 
afterward moved to Vernon County [Wisconsin], and came to Dunn County 
[Wisconsin] in 1872. He worked for Knapp, Stout & Company [then the largest 
white pine milling corporation in the world, incoporated in March 1878] for 
one year, and then had charge of the boarding house [built by Knapp, Stout & 
Company for its mill workers] until 1880, when he came to Downsville [Dunn 
County, Wisconsin; eight miles south of Menomonie, the community of Menomonie 
being platted in 1859 and in the 1880's officially spelled "Menomonie" to 
avoid confusion with other places in Michigan and Wisconsin spelled 
"Menomonee," such as the Menomonee River which forms part of the border 
between Upper Michigan and Wisconsin.] 

His wife [the wife of S. C. ROGERS] was Emily PIXLEY, who was born in New 
York. [See also the Dunn County, Wisconsin, biography of E. PIXLEY, who may 
have been the first husband of this Emily. Note that this ROGERS biography 
neither gives the name of Emily PIXLEY as "Miss Emily PIXLEY," nor does it 
state that PIXLEY was her maiden name.]

[Both Menomonie and Downsville are on the Red Cedar River, which was used to 
carry logs and joins the Chippewa River in Dunn County, a short distance 
north of the border between Dunn and Pepin Counties. The pond or lake north 
of Menomonie, the largest in Dunn County, was used by Knapp, Stout & Company 
to store logs. The mills of Knapp, Stout & Company were located west of this 
lake, where the lake connects to the Red Cedar River, commonly known as the 
Menomonee or Menominee River. The mill at Downsville and three mills at 
Menominee were closed, respectively, in 1900 and 1901. The last raft of 
lumber from Knapp, Stout & Company went down the Red Cedar River in August 
1901.]

Submitted by Cathy Kubly