Biography of Harris Rogers, page 695.  History of De Kalb County, Indiana.  
Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Harris Rogers, farmer, section 4, Keyser Township, was born in New York, 
Nov. 12, 1821, a son of Elisha and Hannah Rogers.  When he was a child his 
parents moved to Pennsylvania, and in 1836 moved to Medina County, Ohio, 
where he grew to maturity.  In 1846 he moved to De Kalb County, Ind., and 
bought eighty acres of land in section 4, Butler (now Keyser) Township,  his 
land was unimproved, but he has put it under good cultivation and erected 
good farm buildings, and has increased his farm to 100 acres.  In addition 
to agriculture he has engaged extensively in the manufacture of drain tile, 
being the first man in the vicinity to engage in the enterprise.  Mr. Rogers 
was married Jan. 2, 1842, to Miss Paulina J. Vaughn, a native of the State of 
New York. They have on son---Charles F.   They reared to young womanhood a 
daughter---Cornelia Ensley, now the wife of William Dove.  Mr. Rogers is not 
identified with any religious or secret organization.  Politically he is a 
Republican.  He is a strict temperance man, and that all may know his 
principles has a cabinet-size photograph of each member of the family, ten 
in number, with the date of birth inscribed on each, on the wall of the 
front room, and over the door is the motto, “A Temperance Family.”  If one 
should become a drunkard or tippler, his picture will be turned face to 
the wall, that all may know who has caused the division on this question.

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