This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EkDBAIB/6032 Message Board Post: EVENING POST ANNUAL, 1882 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of the State Officers, Representatives in Congress, Governor’s Staff, and Senators and Members of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Published Annually. Hartford, Conn.: Evening Post Association. 1882. Pg. 120 JOHN W. ROGERS, Representative for Seymour, New Haven County: Of Seymour, has been baggage-master at this place during the last nineteen years, and has also followed the occupation of a farmer. He is a justice of the peace, and has been constable and grand juror. He was born at Woodbury on August 20, 1813, and had no other educational advantages than those of the common school. He is a Republican.