Lengthy obituary -
The Glasgow Weekly Times - Jan 12, 1887
Glasgow, Barren Co., KY.

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From "A History of the City of Chicago, Its Men and Institutions", pub 1900 - p. 398:

"John Gorin Rogers. a descendant on the paternal side of Giles Rogers, and on the maternal of Captain William Byrd, who came from England to Virginia about 1692, was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, December 25, 1818. Giles Rogers was a planter and surveyor. Captain Byrd received from the English crown a patent to lands upon which the greater parts of the cities of Richmond and Manchester, Virginia, now stand. Byrd Rogers, son of John and Mary (Byrd) Rogers, and grandson of Giles Rogers, settled in Fayette County, Kentucky, early in the year 1800. He had two daughters and four sons. of whom one. George, the father of the subject of this notice. became eminent as a physician. The mother of Mr. John Gorin Rogers was a daughter of that John Gorin who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war and as a major in the Var of 181;. She died in 1870, in the seventy-first year of her age. Two of her sons attained the dignity of the judicial bench. George Clark Rogers, who died in 1871, served for many years as Circuit judge in Kentucky. while John Gorin Rogers was elected Circuit Court judge of Cook County in 1870. on the occasion of its being created a judicial circuit. under provision of the new constitution ratified by the people in that year. He was reelected in 1873. 1879 and 1885. After a period of tuition, which lasted until he was sixteen years old, in a private school at Glasgow. Kentucky, Mr. Rogers was enrolled as a student at Center College, Danville, Kentucky. At that time the college was somewhat famous for the excellence of its law faculty. From Center College Mr. Rogers proceeded to Transylvania University, Lexington. Kentucky, and graduated as LL. B. in 1841. For about sixteen years he followed his profession with marked success in his native town, Glasgow, a part of the time in association with his uncle. Hon. Franklin Gorin, one of the oldest and best lawyers in the state. But Glasgow was too narrow a field for the proper exercise of Mr. Rogers' abilities. Accordingly. he came to Chicago in 1857, and almost instantly took front rank among the practitioners in the courts of Cook County. His promotion to the bench followed in the very nature of things. His mind was preeminently judicial in tone, his bearing was both kindly and dignified and his language was almost classic in its elegance. Though a Democrat by birth, education and natural disposition, Mr. Rogers was able to divest himself entirely of political ties when legal questions were under consideration, and. indeed, many Republican votes were cast for him, although he was always the nominee of Democratic conventions. After his accession to the bench Mr. Rogers abstained from all active manifestations of interest in current politics. yet he held to his old faith, voted as a Democrat. and in private conversation expressed himself clearly as a Democrat. Nor were his counsels unsolicited or unheeded by the leaders of his party; but he justly held that the judicial ermine should be kept free from the odor, as well as from the slime, of what often is called. or rather miscalled. "practical politics." Yet he had in him the stuff of which the higher class of politicians is made. In 1848, being then only thirty years of age. he was national elector from Kentucky on the Taylor ticket, and in 1852 he was honored with a like position on the Scott ticket. He also was a member of the Democratic National Convention of 1856,~by which Fillmore was nominated as presidential candidate. Judge Rogers was an active member of the I. O. O. F., and in 1871 he was chosen treasurer of the relief committee of the association. through the agency of which $125,000 was received and disbursed for relief of the sufferers of the great Chicago fire. Prior to this he had been elected grand master for the state of Illinois and grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the United States. He was one of the founders of the charity organization of Chicago. was elected first president of the Illinois Club. and also was prominent in the Iroquois Club. But no political or social affairs were allowed to impinge on the domestic circle of Judge Rogers. He was peculiarly a family man. and was peculiarly fortunate in his family surroundings. His wife, formerly Miss Arabelle Crenshaw, was a daughter of Judge Benjamin Mills Crenshaw, judge of the Circuit Court and afterward of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. Her cultured intelligence and native instinct stimulated and sustained him in every trying crisis—and the life of no man is free from trying crises. The four children of this happy union were Henry; Geo. Mills Rogers, who fitly upholds the legal fame of his father; one daughter is the wife of Mr. Joseph M. Rogers. manager of the Queen Fire Insurance Company; while the younger daughter. Sarah, is married to Judge Samuel P. McConnell."

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Barren Co., KY. Marriage Record:
ROGERS, John to CRENSHAW, Arbella E, Dec 17, 1844

Home in 1850: Division 1, Barren, Kentucky
John G Rogers 31
Arabelle C Rogers 24
Henry Rogers 2
Julia Rogers 0

Home in 1870: Chicago Ward 13, Cook, Illinois
John G Rogers 51
Belle Rogers 44
Henry Rogers 22
Julia Rogers 20
Sarah Rogers 17
Mills G Rogers 16
William Crenshaw 32
Sarah Crenshaw 28
Mary Wade 22

Home in 1880: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
John G. Rogers 61
Belle Rogers 54
Henry Rogers 32
Julia Rogers 30
Julia Rogers 2
George Rogers 1
George Rogers 26
John G. Rogers 20
Samuel Mcconnell 31
Sarah Mcconnell 27
Horas Mapier 19
Mary Roloughlin 22

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