- BENJAMIN C. ROGERS, Police Justice; born in Portage Co.,
Ohio, 1824; came to Beloit
- about 1848; he was employed by a Cincinnati (Ohio) publishing
house for four years, as a traveling salesman; discontinued that,
and commenced business at Clinton Junction, Rock Co., as a grain
buyer; he taught school when he first came here, about one year,
and then entered into mercantile business; he opened a general
store, and carried a large and assorted stock of goods; continued
in business for twenty years, and then sold out and retired,
October, 1876. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1871,
also Mayor of the city one year and Clerk of School Board; was
also alderman of Fourth Ward several years; he was elected Police
Justice in 1878. He first married, in Cleveland, Ohio, Marietta
PELTON; she died, then he married, in Madison, Wis., in 1872,
Miss Mary M. CHENEY. He owns the residence he occupies and other
property, assessed at $20,000.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 762-763.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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