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Scope and Content:
The Rogers Family Papers includes materials relating to the Rogers family of Hanover, Jefferson County, IN, dated 1840-1989. The collection contains family and business correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, photographs, church documents, bulletins, sermon notes, school documents and compositions, pamphlets, and miscellaneous documents and papers. Topics discussed include Rogers family history, Smith family history, religion, the Presbyterian Church, Hanover College, college life, fraternities and sororities, World War I, Influenza, war letters, the Great Depression, the temperance movement, alcohol, women's rights, women's suffrage, politics, President Woodrow Wilson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, social customs, courting and engagement customs, mourning customs, responses to early deaths of infant children, social activities, dancing, and a variety of postcard imagery.

Historical Note: The Rogers family moved to Hanover, IN, in 1916, to allow their three youngest children the opportunity to attend Hanover College. Henry Martyn and Alma Smith Rogers knew of the school through the Presbyterian Church, the denomination where H.M. Rogers was a minister, and their eldest son, who had attended prior to their move. In 2016, the Rogers family celebrated the 100th anniversary of the family's move to Hanover, IN, and their ancestral home located near the town limits of Hanover, IN. The home was initially named Bird Haven by the family due to the large bird population, and the name is still used as of the 100th anniversary.

Creator

• Rogers family

Subject

• Genealogy

• Smith family

• Women

• Hanover College

• Rogers family

• Political science

• Religion

• Presbyterian Church

• World War, 1914-1918

Publisher

• Hanover College

Language

• English

Identifier

• MSS14_FindingAid

Location

• Hanover, Indiana, United States

• Indiana, Indiana, United States

Keyword

• Hanover College, Rogers Family Papers, MSS 14

• Finding Aid

Date created

• 1840-1989

Resource type

• Book

Source

• 0df45e09-bf55-4b17-8102-11b5200fbda2

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/