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ROGERS, O. A., cashier, P. O. Clarinda; born January 1, 1850, in Watertown, New York. His parents went to Aurora, Illinois, in 1854. He there passed his youth and received a common school education. When sixteen years of age he went to learn the turner’s trade with the firm of Rising & Kendall, of Aurora, with whom he remained two years. Among his other occupations he was messenger boy in a telegraph office, When he came to Iowa he went to Hamburg, Fremont county, remaining only a short time. He then went to Manti, in the dry goods house of O. S. Ride & Co. In 1870, when Shenandoah was laid out, the firm last named moved their stock to that town, and Mr. Rogers went as salesman, opening the first stock of dry goods in the city. In 1872 he went into the bank of Moore & Webster, as book-keeper, with whom he remained until 1875, At that time Messrs. Rogers & Webster opened a bank in the new town of Essex, under the style of B. M. Webster & Co., he being the junior member of the firm. In January, 1879, he disposed of his interest to his partner, and coming to Clarinda entered the banking house of Webster, Linderman & Co., as the junior member of the firm, assuming the duties of the cashier. Mr. Rogers was married September 1, 1872, to Miss S. E. Tiperry, a native of Illinois. They have two children: Rock G. and Pearl M.