ROGERS, Darius

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• _COLOR: 11
• Residence: 1855, Greece, NY

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Darius Rogers died at his home in Ferndale at 3:30 yesterday morning. He had been seriously indisposed for about two months and his death was not altogether unexpected. He will be buried tomorrow, Sunday. The funeral will leave the residence at 10:30 and will proceed to the Congregational church at Ferndale where service will be conducted by the pastor at 11 o'clock. From there the funeral will go to Paradise (Woodlawn) cemetery, east of Ferndale, where the interment will take place.

Mr. Rogers had an eventful life along the lines he chose. He was nearly 73 years old though his well preserved and robust frame made him ten years younger. He was born in Monroe county near Rochester, New York. He graduated at the state normal school at Albany and taught school for years among the cultured people of the Empire state. Then he moved to Kansas in the early days of that fast developing commonwealth. He located at Rogers' mills, on the Neosho river, near where Chanute now is and for a dozen years, in company with his brother, was in the mill and mercantile business. The last three years of this time he was in the wholesale and retail merchandising in Chanute. Then they came to California and he entered the employ of Hon P. B. Cornwall and managed the store of the company during the life of the B. B. coal company. When it closed down Darius joined his brother in the mercantile business at Ferndale.

That was about 22 years ago. A. A. Rogers had already been in business there a year and a half and the solid log houses that stand in East Ferndale yet were built by them. Darius took up a claim first on the site of East Ferndale and later moved across the river and took up the townsite of West Ferndale and has lived there ever since. He was known to all the early settlers. Bluff, hearty, outspoken, always holding decided opinions and always ready to express them decidedly he made some enemies and very many friends. His early literary and scholastic training and the wide experiences of his after life fitted him for leadership and he was always at the front in local affairs. In politics he was always a straight republican and in the conventions of his party when Darius Rogers took the floor there was always a straightforward declaration made regarding the policy to be pursued. In the last county convention he was a candidate for a county office and expected to get the nomination but by a turn of the convention wheel at the last moment it was given to another section of the county.

His family consists of his wife, two sons, Arthur and Edwin and a younger daughter, May. His brother, A. A. Rogers, lives in this city and the remainder of the family are yet back on the old homestead in New York state.
From The Daily Reveille, February 6, 1897

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