BIOGRAPHY: Isaac Hallerman RODGERS, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 609.

  ISAAC HALLERMAN RODGERS, McVeytown, Mifflin county, Pa., was born near 
Downingtown, Chester county, Pa., January 7, 1838, son of Samuel and Sydney 
(Hallerman) Rodgers.  His grandparents, Matthew and Ann Rodgers, who were both 
of Scotch-Irish descent, came to America from Ireland about 1803.  Matthew 
Rodgers had in his youth learned ship-carpentry, and worked at that trade in 
this country.  He assisted in fitting out the fleet with which Commodore Perry 
won his memorable victory on Lake Erie, in September, 1813.  His business 
engagements required Mr. Rogers to visit different cities;  and the last 
knowledge that his family had of him was that he had gone to Pittsburg, after 
which they heard from him no more.  Matthew and Ann Rodgers had three sons and 
four daughters.  The sons were:  Matthew, married and resided near Philadelphia, 
where he died, leaving one daughter, Sarah (Mrs. Joseph Longer), and where their 
descendants now reside;  Samuel;  and Robert, married and went to Iowa as a 
pioneer settler, was a brick-maker, and has left a family who are among the 
substantial citizens of the State.  One of the daughters of the elder Matthew 
Rodgers, Margaret, became Mrs. Hood, of Philadelphia, and had children.  The 
second son, Samuel Rodgers, mentioned above, was educated in that city, and 
learned the trade of milling spices, at the village of Milltown, in Philadelphia 
county.  Here also he was married to Sydney, daughter of Jacob Hallerman.  His 
subsequent life was spent in various places and occupations;  he was a farmer in 
Chester county, Pa., for nine years;  then State supervisor on the Pennsylvania 
Railroad between Downingtown and Paoli for about six years, the last five of 
those years being passed in the borough of Frankford;  he next bought a farm at 
Gwynedd, Montgomery county, where he remained about four years;  then for a 
short time turned his attention again to milling, at Frankford;  removed in 
1860, to Cecil county, Md., where he had purchased a farm in the vicinity of 
Lewisville, on which he lived for about eight years, and in 1868, removed to 
Mifflin county.  Here he became a resident of Lewistown, and having bought the 
Mt. Rock mills, managed them for several years, and finally sold them to Andrew 
Spanogle, and retired from active business life.  He died in 1885, at the age of 
eighty.  His wife was long deceased, having died in 1844.  Their children are:  
Julia Ann (Mrs. Alexander Harrison);  Maurice, married Isabella Gilmore, has 
three children;  Eliza (Mrs. Cool), has one son;  Isaac H.;  and Annie M. (Mrs. 
Edward Miller), has one daughter.
  Having received a common school education, Isaac H. Rodgers learned the 
milling business with his father, and resided with his parents until he was 
twenty-nine.  He began business on his own account in Lewistown, in 1885, having 
purchased the Logan steam flouring mills;  in 1893, he bought the Brookland 
roller flouring mills at McVeytown, where he now resides.  He has been very 
successful financially, the products of his mill enjoying a good reputation, and 
being always in demand.  He is a liberal and public-spirited citizen.  He 
belongs to the Republican party.
  Isaac Hallerman Rodgers was married October 18, 1868, to Sarah, daughter of 
Gideon and Elizabeth Brahm, of McConnellsburg, Fulton county, Pa.  Their 
children are:  Joseph L., died aged about nine years;  John, associated with his 
father in the milling business;  Anna Mary;  and Samuel, who died when about two 
years old.  The family attend the Methodist Episcopal church.