Collection #:
SC 1003

 

ROGERS FAMILY
PAPERS, 1853–1867

 

 

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Folder Listing

Cataloging Information

 

 

Processed by:
Ellen Swain
14 August 1992
Updated
1 November 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

 

Collection INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder

COLLECTION DATES: 1853-1867

PROVENANCE: Frank Rogers

RESTRICTIONS: None

COPYRIGHT:

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS:

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1992.0364x

 

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Jonathon Rogers came to Madison County, Indiana in July 1834, settling on a forty acre farm southeast of Pendleton. He married Elizabeth Thomas and raised seven sons: Joseph N., Charles, William, Levi, Jonathon T., Henry, and Benjamin F. Rogers. During the Civil War, Henry and Benjamin were mustered into the Thirty Fourth Indiana regiment. Henry was killed at Chattanooga in 1864 and Benjamin died in 1878 leaving a wife and five children. After her husband's death, Elizabeth Rogers married James Dawson. She died on March 26, 1867.

Sources:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Madison and Hamilton Counties, Indiana. Chicago: Biographical Pub. Co., 1893.

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of tax and personal receipts (1853–1867) addressed to Elizabeth Dawson, Benjamin F. Rogers, and J.T. Rogers. One tax receipt is addressed to Elizabeth Rogers (1855). A letter, dated November 8, 1862, is written by Benjamin F. Rogers to his brother Jonathon and describes the warm weather in "Arksow." An ointment recipe and two Pendleton and Warrington Turnpike Co. tax slips (1867) are also included.

 

 

FOLDER LISTING

FOLDER CONTENTS

1          Tax receipts, 1853-1867; letter, 1862

 

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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