. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. iculture. Here, as in Gor-ham, he won many friends. In 1868 he bought a goodfarm near the old Whipple stand, at Jefferson Mead-ows, where he died April 13, 1892. A widow and twosons survive him. 172 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICUI>TURE. Mr. Rogers, politically, was a Democrat. In princi-ple he was as unflinching as his illustrious and unassuming as he was, his friends soon learnedhis worth, and in a public capacity he served them manyyears. He was elected one of the selectmen severaltimes in Whitefield, and served Jefferson as
. New Hampshire agriculture : personal and farm sketches. iculture. Here, as in Gor-ham, he won many friends. In 1868 he bought a goodfarm near the old Whipple stand, at Jefferson Mead-ows, where he died April 13, 1892. A widow and twosons survive him. 172 NEW HAMPSHIRE AGRICUI>TURE. Mr. Rogers, politically, was a Democrat. In princi-ple he was as unflinching as his illustrious and unassuming as he was, his friends soon learnedhis worth, and in a public capacity he served them manyyears. He was elected one of the selectmen severaltimes in Whitefield, and served Jefferson as such twelveyears. He was town treasurer seven years, and repre-sented his town in the legislature in i874-75. He wasa charter member ofStarr King Grange,of which he was anhonored member atthe time of his death,and was an activezuorking member ofthe Methodist Episco-pal church for twen-ty-three years. Hewas a loving hus-band, a kind father, agood citizen, and anhonorable man. Lov-ing God and loving hisfellow-man, the worldis better because helived in Ezra B. Rogers. Life is ever Lord of death,And Love can never lose its own. Of the two sons of Mr. Rogers, Woodbury O. is aresident of Norwich, Conn., where he is in the serviceof the Norwich Dyeing and Printing Company. The younger son, John A. Rogers, now thirty yearsof age, remains on the homestead in Jefferson, and is aprosperous and enterprising farmer. The farm is ot PERSONAL AND FARM SKETCHES. 173 about two hundred acres in extent. The hay cropamounts to about sixty tons annually, and in 1896 somefive hundred bushels of oats were harvested. Dairyingis pursued quite extensively, about twenty-five cows andheifers being kept. Mr. Rogers is a member of theboard of selectmen in Jefferson, a Patron of Husbandry,and was chosen master of Starr King Grange in Decem-ber, 1895. HON. JONATHAN M. TAYLOR, Sanbornton. The old town of Sanbornton was not only among thelargest in the state territorially, but, in former years,among the wea
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