W. G. ROGERS, M. D.
Dr. W. Rogers, now a resident and practitioner of medicine in the
city of Charlottesville, Va., was born in Albemarle county, Feb. 26,
1822. His father, Dr. James B. Rogers, for many years a practitioner
in the same county, died in Dec., 1863. His father, Parnassus Rogers,
had sixteen children, five of whom were doctors. He was for many
years a member of Albemarle court and High Sheriff under the old
constitution of Virginia. His father was Giles Rogers, an uncle of
George Rogers Clarke, who was associated in the exploration of the
great western wilderness with Meriwether Lewis and afterwards appointed
Governor of Louisiana by Mr. Jefferson. Meriwether Lewis
was the son of Robert Lewis of Belvoir, Albemarle county, Va., the
father of Nicholas Lewis who married Mary Walker, daughter of Dr.
Walker of Castle Hill, Albemarle county, Va., the great grandfather
and great-grandmother of Dr. W. G. Rogers and of Mrs. Dr. Alfred
C. Wood, now of Kentucky. His grandmother was Mildred Wood,
daughter of Nickolas and Mary Lewis, of The Farm, near Charlottesville,
Va. His mother was Margaret Wood, daughter of Mildred and
David Wood. Giles Roger's family intermarried with the Byrds of
Westover, Va. Dr. W. G. Rogers was educated in the Oldfield schools
of Albemarle, the most of which were classical and at the University
of Virginia where he graduated in Medicine in 1844. In Sept., 1849,
he married Marion S. Wood, daughter of Benjamin and Jane Wood,
formerly Anderson, a niece of Meriwether Lewis. There have been
seven children born of this marriage. Their births occurred in the
order named: Jennie A., William B., Maggie Lewis, Marion Rogers,
all deceased. Those who survive are Ella Walker, who married James
R. Wood and now resides in Kentucky; Benjamin Wood and William
Lewis who live in Charlottesville, Va. Dr. Rogers was appointed to
practice his profession during the war between the states, and is a
member of the Charlottesville Medical Society and the Virginia State
Medical Society and is actively interested in everything pertaining to
the advance of the profession, to which the greater part of his life has
been devoted. His postoffice address is Charlottesville, Va.
