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Charles Theodore Rogers

Grundy County

CHARLES T. ROGERS

MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee, appointed to prepare a suitable memorial resolution commemorating the life and public service of the late Charles T. Rogers, begs leave to submit the following report:

Charles Theodore Rogers was born at Wheatland, Iowa, on December 21, 1863, and died on January 18, 1946, at Azonza, California, while visiting a sister and a brother.

Mr. Rogers was the son of Charles C. and Eliza A. Rogers and a direct descendant of Thomas and Josephine Rogers who came to America on the Mayflower. He moved with his parents to Grundy county in 1879.

He attended Coe College and the Iowa College of Law and was admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1897, and since that time practiced law in Grundy Center, Iowa.

He was an active Republican, serving as a member of the county and state committees, and served his district as State Senator in the Forty-third General Assembly by appointment of the governor. He was a charter member and the first president of the Grundy Center Rotary Club; a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa, a member of the I.O.O.F., O.E.S., A.F. and A.M., Shrine, a 32 Degree Scottish Rite, and a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

On June 12, 1889, he was married to Gertrude Edna Moffett who preceded him in death. Two sons were born to them, Lawrence Ervein, also deceased, and Robert Moffett Rogers of Kansas City, Missouri.

Mr. Rogers was a capable, conscientious and honest citizen and a man who devoted many years of his life to community service.

Therefore Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-second General Assembly of Iowa, That in the passing of Senator Rogers, Iowa has lost a distinguished citizen whose life symbolized integrity and honesty in affairs of the state.

Be It Further Resolved, That this resolution be spread upon the records of the Journal of the Senate of the Fifty-second General Assembly of Iowa, and that an enrolled copy thereof be transmitted to his son, Robert Moffett Rogers, of Kansas City, Missouri.

JOHN BERG,

IRVING D. LONG,

ROBERT A. ROCKHILL,

Committee.

The resolution was unanimously adopted.

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