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Charles H. Rohrer, railroad agent at New Haven, is a native of Harrisburg, Penn., born in 1858, and the son of J. F. and S. E. (Spiece) Rohrer, natives of Pennsylvania, where they were reared and married, and where for nearly thirty years they have lived. The father is of German descent, and is engaged in the real estate and loan association business. He was for about fifteen years interested in the mercantile business at Harrisburg. The mother is of Scotch-Irish descent. Charles H. was reared at home, and educated in the public schools of Harrisburg. At the age of fourteen he learned telegraphy and followed this for several years. He then returned to his home, and was in business with his father until 1877, when he went to Kansas City, and from there to Ottawa, in the service of the Kansas City, Lawrence & Southern Railroad Company. In 1880 he came to New Haven, Mo., where he has since been in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. In August, 1881, he was united in marriage to Miss Lillie A., a daughter of Dr. S. C. and Augusta Griswold. She was born in New Haven, and is a descendant of the Griswolds of Connecticut, who immigrated to America in 1639, from Warwickshire, England. By her marriage she became the mother of three children: Mabel Edna, Charles H., Jr., and Dosa E. Mr. Rohrer is a Republican in politics, and cast his first presidential vote for James A. Garfield, in 1880. He has spent a large portion of his life in the service of several of the leading railroad companies, in all of which he has given entire satisfaction, his changes all having been by his own request.