Archibald Rogers Family
Compiled and Edited by Michael R.Reilly
Last Revised 02/23/2006
Descendants of Alexander Rodger
GenerationNo. 1
1.
ALEXANDER1RODGER(Source: LDS familysearch.org.). He married JANETMCLAGAN(Source: LDS familysearch.org.) August 06, 1792 in Errol, Perth, Scotland.
Notes for A
LEXANDERRODGER:
Possibly born 06 APR 1763 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland toAlexander Rodger and Elsbeth Duncan ?
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LEXANDERRODGERand JANETMCLAGAN:
Marriage: August 06, 1792, Errol, Perth, Scotland
Children of A
LEXANDERRODGERand JANETMCLAGANare:
i. GEORGE
2 RODGER, b. Abt. 1794.
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Christening: March 05, 1794, Errol, Perth, Scotland
ii. ALEXANDER RODGERS, b. Abt. 1795.
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Christening: December 20, 1795, Errol, Perth, Scotland
2. iii. ROBERT RODGER, b. Abt. 1797.
iv. ELIZABETH RODGERS, b. February 20, 1804.
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Christening: March 02, 1804, Kilspindie, Perth, Scotland
v. JOHN A. RODGERS, b. January 19, 1806.
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Christening: January 23, 1806, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland
vi. JANET RODGERS, b. January 07, 1808.
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Census: January 12, 1808, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland
3. vii. ARCHIBALD RODGERS, b. September 23, 1809, Perthshire, Scotland; d. May 16, 1891, age 81 yrs 7 mo.
4. viii. JAMES RODGER, b. September 11, 1811, Scotland.
Generation No. 2
2.
ROBERT2RODGER(ALEXANDER1)was born Abt. 1797.
Notes for R
OBERTRODGER:
Abt 1851 Robert and Alexander Rodgers were contracted to build a one-roomwooden schoolhouse in Town of Lisbon School District No. 2, later known asRichmond School, officially Lisbon-Pewaukee Joint 2 School District.
Alexander was probably his son.
Children of R
OBERTRODGERare:
i. ALEXANDER
3 RODGER, b. Abt. 1827, Scotland.
ii. MARY RODGER, b. Abt. 1832, Scotland.
3.
ARCHIBALD2RODGERS(ALEXANDER1RODGER)was born September 23, 1809 in Perthshire, Scotland, and died May 16, 1891 inage 81 yrs 7 mo. He married AUGUSTAAGNES NANCYHOWITT1850, daughter of ANDREWHOWITTand AGNESMCKERROW.She was born 1816, and died March 25, 1876 (Source: Lisbon Central Cemeteryheadstone inscription.).
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RCHIBALDRODGERS:
Date born 2: October 11, 1809, LDS files show this date
Burial: Lisbon Central Cemetery (Source: Lisbon Central Cemetery headstoneinscription.)
Census 1: 1870, “Arch Rodgers”
Census 2: 1850, Listed as “Arch Rodger”, age 40
Census 3: 1880, “Archabald Rodgers”
Christening: October 18, 1809, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland
Emigration: July 04, 1841 (Source: Waukesha Freeman, May 21, 1891.)
Occupation: 1867, Farm house abt 1/2 mile west of Sussex – N67 W25395 Hwy VV(1985 address).
Residence 1: 1889, Sold farm, grew grain, to Alexander Will for $5,775.
Residence 2: 1850, Living with Agnes, stepsons James and Andrew Templeton,and son George, age 4 mos
Residence 3: 1880, Lived with son-in-law George McKarrow (McKerrow), Belle(Isabelle, his daughter), and their daughter Jennie B. Archibald’s farm orGeorge’s? (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin.)
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UGUSTAAGNES NANCYHOWITT:
Name 2: Augusta (Agnes) Templeton
Burial: Lisbon Central Cemetery
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RCHIBALDRODGERSand AUGUSTAHOWITT:
Marriage: 1850
Children of A
RCHIBALDRODGERSand AUGUSTAHOWITTare:
i. GEORGE
3 RODGERS, b. Abt. April 1851 (Source: 1850 Federal Census, Lists him as being 4 mos old and census was taken on Aug 22, 1850.); d. August 29, 1871 (Source: Lisbon Central Cemetery headstone inscription.).
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Burial: Lisbon Central Cemetery
ii. AGNES RODGERS, b. Abt. 1853.
iii. JEANETTE (JENNETTE) RODGERS (Source: 1870 Federal Census, Listed as Jennette.), b. Abt. 1856.
5. iv. ISABEL (ISABELLA) “BELLE” RODGERS, b. July 14, 1858, Waukesha County, Wisconsin.
4.
JAMES2RODGER(ALEXANDER1)was born September 11, 1811 in Scotland. He married MARY.She was born in Scotland.
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AMESRODGER:
Christening: September 24, 1811, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland
Child of J
AMESRODGERand MARYis:
i. ROBERT
3 RODGER, b. Abt. 1837, England.
Generation No. 3
5.
ISABEL(ISABELLA)”BELLE”3RODGERS(ARCHIBALD2,ALEXANDER1RODGER)(Source: This Old House by Linda Schafer, Landmark, Spring and Summer issue,1985, Known as Isabella in 1870 Fed Census.) was born July 14, 1858 in WaukeshaCounty, Wisconsin. She married GEORGEMCKERROW,SR.September 26, 1877 in Archibald A. Rodgers home, Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin,son of GAVINMCKERROWand ELIZABETHHOWITT.He was born April 01, 1852.
Notes for G
EORGEMCKERROW,SR.:
After marrying Isabel Rodgers in 1877, he and Isabel lived in her father’shouse at least until 1880. The 1880 Census lists them and their daughter asliving on Archibald’s farm. George’s step father, William Simpson didn’t dieuntil 1891. Archibald also died in 1891. Since the Rodgers farm was supposed tobe sold to Alexander Wills in 1889, George may have taken over operation of theSimpson/McKerrow homestead between 1880 and 1889. Archibald may have moved withthem there (?).
Wisconsin Farmers’ Institutes Bulletin 37 1924
Born in Lisbon in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, he was educated at CarrollCollege in Waukesha, and taught in common and village schools in the Town ofLisbon for ten years. On September 26, 1877, he married Belle Rodgers and had atleast two children.
In 1893-94, he was one of the Conductors, i.e., he presided over andconducted Institute meetings, for the Farmers’ Institutes. After the untimelydeath of Superintendent William H. Morrison, in December 1893, McKerrow wasappointed as Superintendent of the Farmers’ Institutes on June 20, 1894, at anannual salary of $2,000, and served until his resignation of May 31, 1914. FromMay 20 to July 15, 1911, he was on a leave of absence to visit livestock showsin Great Britain.
According to Ernest L. Luther, the last Superintendent, McKerrow thought moreof his Oxford sheep and Guernseys than public office and did not want to leavehis farm, sheep, and herd, but “fell to the cajoleries of Dean Henry andthe agricultural committee of the regents, who permitted him to live on his farmand have time off during the growing season for a trial period of one year. DeanHenry added to his own many duties the work of completing Morrison’s ninth year,and McKerrow took over not for one year but for twenty years.”
During the McKerrow period, “the battle of silos, better breeding,better feeding, and spreading the new truths of the experiment station wentforward on the basis of some 130 institutes and the ‘Round-up’ institute eachyear, including regular women’s institutes where facilities permitted.”
With the closing of the ‘Round-up’ institute of 1914, McKerrow returned tohis farm in Waukesha County. During his twenty years as Superintendent, theWisconsin Legislature had increased the appropriation from $5,000 a year to$20,000.
In addition to his University responsibilities and his farm, he was activelyinvolved in many associations, serving as president of the American Oxford DownSheep Breeders’ Association and of the American Association of Farmers’Institute
Managers (1897), as well as vice president of the National Horse Breeders’Association, of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture, the Farmers’ NationalCongress, and the Wisconsin Good Roads League. He also served as director of the
American South Down Breeders’ Association.
McKerrow contributed articles to several agricultural journals including:American Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower, Breeders’ Gazette, Farmers’ Advocate,National Stockman and Farmer, Wisconsin Farmer and the Wisconsin
Farmers’ Institute Bulletin.
References:
“George McKerrow, Superintendent of Agricultural Institutes” in TheUniversity of Wisconsin, Its History and Its Alumni, With Historical andDescriptive Sketches of Madison, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Madison (Wis.): J.N. Purcell. 1899 : 329.
Luther, Ernest L.
“Farmers’ Institutes in Wisconsin, 1885-1933.” Wisconsin Magazineof History 30, no. 1 (September 1946): 59-68
http://cf.uwex.edu/history/indivbio.cfm?IndivID=183
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EORGEMCKERROWand ISABELRODGERS:
Marriage: September 26, 1877, Archibald A. Rodgers home, Lisbon, Waukesha,Wisconsin
Child of I
SABELRODGERSand GEORGEMCKERROWis:
i. GEORGE
4 MCKERROW, b. September 08, 1893.
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Occupation: Started Golden Guernsey Cooperative