WI BIO - Juneau Co - ROGERS, E.D.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 386

E. D. ROGERS, Justice of the Peace, Necedah [Juneau County, Wisconsin], was 
born 27 June 1838 in Argyle, Washington County, New York. He attended school 
at the Argyle Academy until 1850, when he came to Madison [Dane County], 
Wisconsin. He worked in a store and attended school at the State University 
of Wisconsin [at Madison] until the spring of 1855, when he came to Necedah 
[Juneau County], and at once engaged as clerk for T. Weston & Company, 
serving about six years.

In 1863 E. D. ROGERS enlisted in the First Wisconsin Artillery, and served 
until the close of the war. [The Civil war officially ended in April 1865.] 
He was the first County Surveyor of Juneau County, being elected at the age 
of twenty-one, and served four years. [Assuming his given year of birth is 
correct, he became the first Juneau County Surveyor in 1851 or 1852.]

In 1858 he [E. D. ROGERS] was married to [Miss?] Helen A. WOODS, who was born 
in 1841 in Maine. They [E. D. and Helen A. ROGERS] have seven children: E. 
D., Amy, Eva, John, Harry, Mary, Mabel, and Hugh. Mr. ROGERS has been 
Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk for the past fourteen years. He has also 
served as Deputy Sheriff. Politically a Democrat, he served as a member of 
the Assembly in 1878. Fraternally he is a Mason.  Mr. ROGERS is at present 
engaged in insurance, real estate, and cranberry business. 

Submitted by Cathy Kubly