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1863 young Rodgers left Tennessee and went to Madison, 

 Indiana, for the purpose of attending school in that city, 



but becoming imbued 

 with the spirit of pat- 

 riotism he volunteered 

 and entered the 5 ad 

 Regiment Indiana In- 

 fantry Volunteers, 

 serving until the close 

 of the war. He was 

 discharged at St. L,ouis, 

 July 10, 1865, and 

 again entered his life- 

 long occupation that 

 of farming settling 

 in Williamson county, 

 Illinois. In 1873 ^ e 

 moved to Clay county, 

 J. IV. Rodgers. Arkansas, where he 



bought a new farm and followed the plow-handles through 

 crop time for five years. Getting in very bad health, in 

 1883 h e moved to Stoddard county, Missouri, where he 

 has since resided. He was elected delegate to the State 

 Wheel in September, 1887, the annual meeting of which 

 convened at West Plains, Missouri, October 12, 1887. 

 While attending this meeting his business abilities were 

 recognized and he was elected Secretary of the State 

 Wheel. Under his able control the Missouri State Wheel 

 is fast taking rank among the most able, efficient and 

 best conducted State Wheels of America. He is always 

 ready and willing to work for the best interests of the 

 Order. At the annual meeting of the State Wheel at 

 Dexter, Missouri, on the i9th of September last, he was 

 unanimously re-elected Secretary for another term of one 

 year, and also elected a delegate to the National Wheel, 



