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DELANY G. ROGERS
Vol. 5, p. 1802, 1803

Delany G. Rogers, of Buffalo, Oklahoma, has been an early settler in
both the States of Kansas and Oklahoma. In fact, he has lived nearly
all his life close to the frontier and in intimate touch with the
people and the activities of a new country. Mr. Rogers only recently
retired from the office of postmaster at Buffalo, a position he had
held for a number of years. His chief vocation in life has been
farming and stock raising, and it is the testimony of his friends and
neighbors that whatever he does, he does well.

His birth occurred in a log house on a farm in Jefferson County,
Indiana, on April 6, 1862. His birth occurred while his father was
away fighting the battles of the Union in the Civil War. His parents
were Gamaliel and Lydia (LEWIS) Rogers. His father was born November
17 1840, in Jefferson County, Indiana, and was still a very young man
when the war broke out. He served three years as a private in Company
C of the 6th Indiana Infantry, but with the exception of that service
has spent all his active life as a farmer. From Indiana he moved out
to Kansas in 1886, locating on government land in Clark County. That
was his home for six years, after which he spent two years in Mead
County, then returned to Clark County for eight years, and finally
moved to Texas County, Missouri, where he still has his home. He has
now reached the age of three-quarters of a century, and has lived so
usefully he can enjoy the comforts of retired existence. In 1858
Gamaliel Rogers married Lydia Lewis who was also born in Jefferson
County, Indiana, August 17, 1840. To their marriage were born ten
children, four sons and six daughters, namely: Florence, born
December 5, 1860, was married in 1880 to Merritt M. COSBY and they
now reside at Protection, Kansas; Delany G., who was the second in
order of birth; Willis born in 1864 and died in 1885; Jessie, born in
1868, was married in 1888 to Charles PAULEY, and they now live at
Oklahoma City; John Belle, born in 1870, is now an osteopathic
physician at Hastings, Oklahoma, and in 1905 she became the wife of
Charles MORRISON; Celia, born in 1872, married in 1910 Mr. L. DEES,
and they now live at Rosston, Oklahoma; Samuel Nicholas, born in
1874, is a farmer in Harper County, Oklahoma; Tena, born in 1876,
married in 1908 to Charles SWORKEY and they now live at Norman,
Oklahoma; Pearl, born in 1878 was married in 1905 to William and they
live in Beaver County, Oklahoma.

It was on a farm in Jefferson County, Indiana, that Delany G. Rogers
spent his early youth. He had the advantages of the local public
schools. The discipline of farm work gave him a rugged constitution,
and an experience which he has utilized in his own active career. In
1884 he moved out to Clark County, Kansas, and secured a tract of
Government land in a district which at that time had very few
agricultural and permanent settlers. Mr. Rogers lived in Kansas until
1899, and in the meantime had improved an excellent farm there. In
the latter year he moved to old Woodward County, Oklahoma, and again
acquired a homestead, situated two miles from the Town of Buffalo.
While Mr. Rogers' activities have kept him in town for a number of
years, he still owns considerable land has most of it under
improvement.

On February 23, 1907, he was appointed postmaster of Buffalo, and
continued the incumbent of the office through two terms until
February 23, 1915. He is an active republican, is affiliated with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is a member of the Methodist
Espicopal Church.

On October 16, 1884, at Taylorsville, Indiana, Mr. Rogers married
Miss Isabelle PHILLIPS, daughter of Madison and Mary (WALLACE)
Phillips. Mrs. Rogers was born June 11, 1860, in Jefferson County,
Indiana, and her parents were natives of the same state. It will be
recalled that Mr. Rogers left Indiana and went out into the new
country of Kansas in 1884. He made that trip as his wedding journey,
being accompanied by his young bride, and they journeyed across the
country by wagon and team, like some of their pioneer ancestors who
had come from a point still further east to the region of the Ohio
Valley. Mr. And Mrs. Rogers are the parents of seven children, four
sons and three daughters, namely: Ora Lawrence, born August 14, 1885,
now the wife of Irwin BAKER of Ashland, Kansas; Madison Gamaliel,
born May 25, 1888, and still living at Buffalo; Estella Iris, born
March 10, 1890, was married in 1908 to Pirl BAKER, and they now live
at Protection, Kansas; Alta Rachel, born February 19, 1892; William
McKinley, born May 10, 1894; John, born February 14, 1896; and Edward
Taft, born August 20, 1907, died July 20, 1908.

Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Donald E. Conley, 26 July 1999.

SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An
Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The
American Historical Society, 1916).