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HENRY ROGERS, proprietor of the Colt House,
Meadville, was born in Bradford County, Penn., in 1847, and is a son of
Hiram and Abigail (Parks) Rogers, natives of Pennsylvania, and of English
descent, his father being a wagon-maker by trade. They had a family of
five children. Henry Rogers received a common school education in his
native place, and first engaged in the oil business, in which, in all, he
has spent seventeen years. In 1884 he started his present hotel business,
which bids fair to be a success. He was married, in this city, in 1873, to
Sabina, daughter of Sylvester Boyles, one of the first settlers in
Meadville. In politics Mr. Rogers is an old-fashioned Jacksonian Democrat.
History of Crawford County,
Pennsylvania: containing a
history of the county, its townships, towns, villages, schools,
churches, industries, etc., portraits of early settlers and prominent
men, biographies, history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous
matter, Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885, page 766
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