Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed.,
1886.  Monroe County.

B. B. RODGERS is the eldest of three sons born to Peter G. and Margaret
(Hodges) Rodgers, of Clark County, Mo.  His younger brothers are
Benjamin and Robert.  He was born September 10, 1859.  His parents were
not in affluent circumstances, and he received only a common school
education until the age of nineteen, when he entered the Keokuk
Mercantile College, at Keokuk, Iowa, where he continued two years; then
began the study of newspaper work, which he has continued up to the
present time.  April 7, 1884, he was united in marriage with Nannie
Helms, a daughters of Col. W. C. Helms, of Monticello, Mo. She is a lady
of rare talent for newspaper work, and assists her husband in the
publication of the Tompkinsville Banner, which is Republican in
politics, and the first paper published in Monroe County, Ky.  In
November of the same year, (1885), Mr. Rodgers began the publication of
another paper at the same place, the Kentucky Farmer, which is the
second paper of its kind published in the State.  Mr. Rodgers is a
member of the Anit-Horse-Thief Association of the United States.  He and
wife are members of the Christian Church.  In politics he is a
Republican.

Rodgers Helms Hodges
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Clark-MO IA MO

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