J. N. Rodgers, a farmer, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, January 12, 1845. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Corbin) Rodgers, natives of Vermont, the former of Irish and the latter of Scotch descent.  Our subject was raised and educated on the farm, and has followed farming through life.  He owns 130 acres of land in Claibourne Township, where he has spent most of his life. In 1865, he enlisted in Company B, One Hundred and Eighty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry, as a drummer boy, and served until January 20, 1866, when he was ,discharged at Columbus.  He was married, in 1869, to Mary Baumgartner, a native of. Ohio, of German descent.  They have had four children born to them, viz.: Charles W., Hattie, Dora and Clara.  Mr. Rodgers is a Republican in politics.