entitled Collected Writings of Neilson Rogers, edited by Jerry Lincecum, a Professor of English at Austin College. (Seen in picture, l. to r., are Dr. Peggy Redshaw, Neilson Rogers, and Dr. Jerry Lincecum). It was Dr. Lincecum who encouraged Neilson Rogers to complete this very readable book. It is a volume of sixteen stories that recount episodes from Neilson's personal life story, including the equally remarkable career of his father, Fred Stanley Rogers, who was also an attorney. The elder Rogers ran against Pat Neff for Texas Governor in 1922 and garnered 40% of the vote although he lost to the candidate from Central Texas. Fred Stanley Rogers went on to serve in the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman Administrations before he returned to the practice of law in Sherman with his son, Neilson. This interesting memoir recounts many of Neilson's activities as a leading citizen of the area, especially from the 1940s to the 1970s. His descriptions of Sherman, including the old Hotel Grayson and the early years of Lake Texoma, provide many colorful anecdotes. This volume captures the life and times of Sherman, and the North Texas area, during the four decades after World War Two in a unique, interesting narrative.
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Neilson Rogers
Today I attended a book-signing party to mark publication of an entertaining memoir by Neilson Rogers, a distinguished gentleman who is 93 years of age and who has been practicing law in Sherman, Texas for over seventy years. In recent decades, Neilson has also established a reputation as a fine local historian of Grayson County and the Red River Valley. He previously has written a history of Sherman and more recently has been conducting research on the Anglo-American influx into the Red River area at Jonesboro, Texas during the 1820s. In that regard, he has become an expert on the history of Miller Country, Arkansas prior to the Texas Revolution, especially regarding the transfer of the Common Law to Texas in the 1820s and 1830s. He has just published a delightful volume
entitled Collected Writings of Neilson Rogers, edited by Jerry Lincecum, a Professor of English at Austin College. (Seen in picture, l. to r., are Dr. Peggy Redshaw, Neilson Rogers, and Dr. Jerry Lincecum). It was Dr. Lincecum who encouraged Neilson Rogers to complete this very readable book. It is a volume of sixteen stories that recount episodes from Neilson's personal life story, including the equally remarkable career of his father, Fred Stanley Rogers, who was also an attorney. The elder Rogers ran against Pat Neff for Texas Governor in 1922 and garnered 40% of the vote although he lost to the candidate from Central Texas. Fred Stanley Rogers went on to serve in the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman Administrations before he returned to the practice of law in Sherman with his son, Neilson. This interesting memoir recounts many of Neilson's activities as a leading citizen of the area, especially from the 1940s to the 1970s. His descriptions of Sherman, including the old Hotel Grayson and the early years of Lake Texoma, provide many colorful anecdotes. This volume captures the life and times of Sherman, and the North Texas area, during the four decades after World War Two in a unique, interesting narrative.
entitled Collected Writings of Neilson Rogers, edited by Jerry Lincecum, a Professor of English at Austin College. (Seen in picture, l. to r., are Dr. Peggy Redshaw, Neilson Rogers, and Dr. Jerry Lincecum). It was Dr. Lincecum who encouraged Neilson Rogers to complete this very readable book. It is a volume of sixteen stories that recount episodes from Neilson's personal life story, including the equally remarkable career of his father, Fred Stanley Rogers, who was also an attorney. The elder Rogers ran against Pat Neff for Texas Governor in 1922 and garnered 40% of the vote although he lost to the candidate from Central Texas. Fred Stanley Rogers went on to serve in the Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman Administrations before he returned to the practice of law in Sherman with his son, Neilson. This interesting memoir recounts many of Neilson's activities as a leading citizen of the area, especially from the 1940s to the 1970s. His descriptions of Sherman, including the old Hotel Grayson and the early years of Lake Texoma, provide many colorful anecdotes. This volume captures the life and times of Sherman, and the North Texas area, during the four decades after World War Two in a unique, interesting narrative.
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