Washington County Biographies



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E. M. Rogers, M. D.

E. M. Rogers, M. D., Hartford; son of Daniel and Huldah (Farmer) Rogers; he was born in Windham, Bradford Co., Penn., Jan. 14, 1831; when he was 3 years of age the family moved across the State line into the town of Owego, N. Y., where he spent his early years on a farm, receiving his education in the district school and the academy of Owego; he devoted some time to teaching, and, in 1853, commenced reading with Dr. Phelps, of Owego; continued his studies at this place two years, and, in 1855 and 1856, he took a course at the Michigan State University at Ann Arbor. In 1856, he came to Washington Co., and located at Boltonville and began the practice of medicine; he remained in Boltonville one year, then went to Cascade, Sheboygan Co., where he continued to practice till 1860, when he went to New York City and took a regular course of lectures at the Medical College of the University of New York, and received his diploma. He then returned to Cascade and resumed practice. He was married, in the town of Farmington, Washington Co., Nov. 13, 1861, to Miss Harriet L. Hazleton, daughter of Squire and Catharine Hazleton. Mrs. Rogers was born in Madison Co., N. Y. February, 1862, the Doctor received a commission as Assistant Surgeon to the 12th W. V. I.; after six months' service, was promoted to Surgeon of the same regiment, and served till the close of the war; during his service he was appointed one of the three operating surgeons of the Fourth Division of the Seventeenth Army Corps of the Army of Tennessee, to whom all capital operations were intrusted. During his entire service he was never sick or disqualified for duty a single day. On his return from the army, in 1865, he established himself at Hartford, where he has continued in practice of his profession to this date. In politics, he is a stalwart Republican; he was a Delegate to the Republican National Convention that nominated James A. Garfield, and was one of the first of the Wisconsin Delegates to favor that nomination. His family consists of the wife and two children-Frederick, aged 19 years, and Lena, aged 11 years.

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