JOHN JACOB ROGERS

Rogers, John Jacob (1881-1925), Son of Jacob Rogers and Mary Howard (Carney) Rogers; married, October 2, 1907, to Edith Frances Nourse, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Lowell, Middlesex County, Mass., August 18, 1881; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1904 and from the law department of that university in 1907; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Lowell in 1908; member of the Lowell city government in 1911; school commissioner in 1912; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1913, until his death; during the First World War enlisted on September 12, 1918, as a private with the Twenty-ninth Training Battery, Tenth Training Battalion, Field Artillery, Fourth Central Officers’ Training School, and served until honorably discharged on November 29, 1918; died in Washington, D.C., March 28, 1925; interment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Mass.
Father's name: Jacob
Mother's name: Mary H
Spouse: Edith Frances Nourse
Estimated birth year: abt 1882
Birthplace: Maine

Sources:
United States Federal Census
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell