Dr. Samuel E. Rogers, of Prairie Grove, Ark., was born at Pendleton Court House, S. C., January 28, 1834, and is a son of Hugh Rogers, who was a native -0f the same State. His father and three brothers were born in Ireland, and were among the very early settlers of South Carolina. Hugh Rogers was married to Miss Martha W. McWhorter, and moved to Hall County, Ga., in 1839, making that State their home until 1851, whei;t they moved to Arkansas, and settled in Washington, where the father is still residing at the extreme old age of ninety-two years. His wife died in 1873. Dr. Samuel E. Rogers received a good education in the common schools and academies of Georgia and Arkansas, and began the study of his profession in the former State, continuing the same after coming to Arkansas under the preceptorship of Dr. Clark and, afterward, Dr. Rogers. He began practicing his profession during the war, and has continued the same until the present time, and now ranks among the first physicians of the county. He has also been largely engaged in farming, and has upward of 900 acres in three farms, with 500 acres under cultivation. He was married January 23, Hl34, to Miss Julia Ann West, a native of Ea3t Tennessee, and by her is the father of four children: Samuel H., Annie (wife of W. T. Neal), James C. and John E. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he is a Master Mason.