Rogers, Rev. Caleb Smith of  Bennington, Bennington Co, Vt

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Copy from  "Free Baptist Cyclopaedia"  Historical & Biographical  
by  Rev G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M.   
Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co. 1889
page 577

Rogers, Rev. Caleb Smith, was born in Bennington, Vt., March 14, 1791.  His parents, 
Nehemiah and Lydia (Smith) Rogers, moved to Luzerne County, PA., at an early day.  He was
converted in western New York when twenty-seven years of age under the labors of Rev.  
J. Parinenter, and licensed at the Bethany Q. M. Jan. 24, 1825.  A year later he was 
ordained.  He labored in Genesee and Livingston Counties.  Until 1836, at Freedom, N. Y., 
until 1841, and, having moved to Sparta, Pa., in the Washinton and French Creek Q. M's.  
Until his death at Greenfield, Pa., Aug. I5, 1879.  Here, though so aged, he had preached 
only the Sabbath before.  He traveled extensively, and was well known and highly estestmed
throughout this region.