John Byron Rogers
Born: 1887
Died: 1971 in California
Mother: Ivie Elvina Southwick
Father: John Clark (Johnnie) Rogers
Married: Phylis Mulkey
Child:
- Betty Jane
b. 1917
m. Irby Jackson Massey
Sources and Additional Information:
Byron starred in football at Drury College and joined Kappa Alpha fraternity, a southern group that had recently decided to open chapters north of the Mason and Dixon line. He went on to the University of Michigan, hoping to win a letter in football under the Legendary Coach Yost. Failing in that he dropped out and married at the end of his first year there. By subsequently became a draughtsman and spent much of his life in California. He died there in 1971. By had one daughter.
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