(died December 20, 1912)

William Rogers, for over thirty years a resident of this village, died at his home, corner Miner and West streets, Friday after an illness of about a year, aged fifty-eight. Funeral services from the Presbyterian church. Burial at Fairview.

Mr. Rogers was born in Norwood and came to Canton when he was about eighteen years of age. He was a carpenter by trade and pursued that vocation up to within a few months of his death when illness confined him to his home.

Surviving are a widow, three sons, Harold, Frank and Henry. Two brothers and one sister also remain, viz., Byron H. and L.K. Rogers and Mrs. Nancy Scott, all of this village.

(From the Tuesday, December 24, 1912 edition of the Canton Commercial Advertiser, front page. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).