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Clayton Rogers, a druggist and farmer of Milford, Mo., was born in Fayette County, Penn., in 1842, and has been a resident of Barton County, Mo., since 1874. His parents, George P. and Eliza (Clayton) Rogers, were also born in the “ Keystone State,” the former in 1802, and the latter in 1814. When Southern Ohio was almost a wilderness, George P. Rogers moved there and was one of the men who established the first iron furnace in the State, at Brush Creek, called the Brush Creek Furnace. He was an active politician, and, previous to the late war, was a stanch Whig. In 1862 he enlisted in the Union Army, but was too old for active service, and soon returned home, having merely joined in order to induce others to do so. In his political views he then became a Republican, and so remained until his death, in 1885. He was a great admirer of James G. Blaine. His wife is still living and enjoys good health. Clayton Rogers commenced business for himself in 1861, and then enlisted in the Thirty-third Ohio as a private, and was mustered out in 1865 as first lieutenant, having participated in the following battles: Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge Resaca, Pumpkin Vine, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta and Jonesboro, besides many minor combats and skirmishes, but was never wounded or taken prisoner. After the war he returned to Ohio, and entered a commercial college, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and afterward spent some time as a clerk in a clothing store. In 1868 he came to Missouri, and located at Bolivar, being engaged in teaching there, and then came to Stockton, where he was occupied in the photograph business and clerked in a drug store until 1874. Since that time he has resided in Barton County engaged in his present business. He was married in Stockton on the 17th of June, 1871, to Miss M. E. Brazier, a native of Missouri, and by her is the father of three children, two living: Lily Dell, who died December 11, 1874; Maud, born June 17 1874; and Ethel Lee, born April 13, 1879. Mrs. Rogers is a member of the Christian Church. Mr. Rogers has been township treasurer and trustee two terms, being elected on the Republican ticket, of which he is a member, and has been postmaster of Milford for nine years. He is very public-spirited, and gives liberally to all worthy enterprises. He owns 120 acres of good farming land. His brothers and sisters are as follows: S. J., married, and living in Ohio; A. I., who is in the Pension Department, at Washington, D. C; W. P., residing in Kansas; Hattie C., wife of F. L. Johnson, residing in Ohio; George P., a painter, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Mary C., wife of F. L. Lepage of Ohio; Libbie C.; and J. A., a boot and shoe merchant of Ironton, Ohio.