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Born: 1886
Died: 1970
Mother: Ivie Elvina Southwick
Father: John Clark (Johnnie) Rogers
Married: Marian Hackett
Children:
- Margaret
b. 1915
m. Truman D. Sherer - Lewis Bayly
b. 1919
m. Emma Rogers Miller
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I have already touched on the fact that Emmet attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He was only 16 when he went out to Annapolis and he "bilged out" the first year, but he made it after a year of study at St. John’s prep school there. He graduated with the class of 1908. Later he taught navigation at the Academy and served the Navy with distinction in World War I, earning the Navy Cross. While still in his prime he found it necessary to retire from the service on disability; he was a commander at the time. He lived until 1970. The Navy tradition has continued in Emmet’s family. His only son had a long career as a civilian employee with the Navy Department, and his daughter’s son is an Annapolis graduate who attained the rank of commander in 1975.
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