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Arranged by type of record: family and personal papers (13 cubic feet), business records (7 cubic feet), and oversize materials (.75 cubic feet).
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The Rogers family was one of Volusia County's most notable pioneering families. In 1874, David Dunham Rogers moved with his wife, Julia Frances Davis, and their infant son to Daytona from Plainfield, New Jersey. In 1876, D. D. Rogers was one of the 25 city council members who incorporated Daytona Beach, and he was one of the first land surveyors in Volusia County. In 1884, he purchased almost 50 acres of land on the beach peninsula east of Daytona and established Seabreeze, a residential subdivision. Over the next 100 years, D. D. Rogers and his children (Clarence Mord, Mary Josie, Mabel Titsworth and Walter David) became some of the most prominent and influential members of the community.
Clarence Mord Rogers was born in 1874 in Plainfield, New Jersey. In Florida, Clarence followed in his father's footsteps and was active in the community as a member of several local boards and commissions, and he worked as a civil engineer in Daytona Beach. In 1906, he married Louise Frances Mannl and they had eight children: Mary Katrina, Frances Randolph, Elizabeth Louise, David Edward, Crosby Underwood, Clarence Mord, Jr., Julia Davis and Ruth Titsworth. He died in 1933.
Mary Josie Rogers was born in 1876 in Daytona Beach. In 1907, she became one of the first female physicians to practice in Florida, focusing her practice on holistic rather than traditional medicine and meeting with patients in the house her father built on Beach Street. In 1922, Dr. Rogers was elected as the first female mayor of Daytona Beach and one of the first in the southern states. By 1946, she was Chief of Staff of Halifax District Hospital. She died in 1975 in Daytona Beach after a long and prolific life of medical practice and political activism.
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This collection contains a variety of records that document more than a century of Rogers family history in Daytona Beach and the surrounding areas. It is organized into two distinct types of records: family papers and business records. The family papers contain letters between family members and friends, personal diaries and day books, genealogies of several branches on the Rogers family tree, property and tax records, photographs, and other materials related to the various hobbies and interests of the Rogers family. The business records document D. D. and Clarence Rogers's professions as land surveyors, civil engineers and local leaders. These records include correspondence regarding equipment and projects, financial ledgers, business journals, patents, survey field notes and drawings, and other related materials.
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Civil engineering Civil engineers Florida
Business records. aat Deeds. aat Diaries. aat Estate inventories. aat Field notes. aat Genealogies. aat Land surveys. aat Letters. aat Machine-readable artifacts. aat Photographs. aat Reminiscences. aat Survey field notes. Tax records. aat
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