Possibly born 06 APR 1763 Saint Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland to Alexander Rodger and Elsbeth Duncan ?

Marriage: August 06, 1792, Errol, Perth, Scotland

Abt 1851 Robert and Alexander Rodgers were contracted to build a one-room wooden schoolhouse in Town of Lisbon School District No. 2, later known as Richmond School, officially Lisbon-Pewaukee Joint 2 School District.

Alexander was probably his son.

Date born 2: October 11, 1809, LDS files show this date

Burial: Lisbon Central Cemetery (Source: Lisbon Central Cemetery headstone inscription.)

Census 1: 1870, "Arch Rodgers"

Census 2: 1850, Listed as "Arch Rodger", age 40

Census 3: 1880, "Archabald Rodgers"

Christening: October 18, 1809, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland

Emigration: July 04, 1841 (Source: Waukesha Freeman, May 21, 1891.)

Occupation: 1867, Farm house abt 1/2 mile west of Sussex - N67 W25395 Hwy VV (1985 address).

Residence 1: 1889, Sold farm, grew grain, to Alexander Will for $5,775.

Residence 2: 1850, Living with Agnes, stepsons James and Andrew Templeton, and son George, age 4 mos

Residence 3: 1880, Lived with son-in-law George McKarrow (McKerrow), Belle (Isabelle, his daughter), and their daughter Jennie B. Archibald's farm or George's? (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin.)

Name 2: Augusta (Agnes) Templeton

Burial: Lisbon Central Cemetery

Marriage: 1850

Christening: September 24, 1811, Kilspindie, Perthshire, Scotland

After marrying Isabel Rodgers in 1877, he and Isabel lived in her father's house at least until 1880. The 1880 Census lists them and their daughter as living on Archibald's farm. George's step father, William Simpson didn't die until 1891. Archibald also died in 1891. Since the Rodgers farm was supposed to be sold to Alexander Wills in 1889, George may have taken over operation of the Simpson/McKerrow homestead between 1880 and 1889. Archibald may have moved with them there (?).

Wisconsin Farmers' Institutes Bulletin 37 1924

Born in Lisbon in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, he was educated at Carroll College in Waukesha, and taught in common and village schools in the Town of Lisbon for ten years. On September 26, 1877, he married Belle Rodgers and had at least two children.

In 1893-94, he was one of the Conductors, i.e., he presided over and conducted Institute meetings, for the Farmers' Institutes. After the untimely death of Superintendent William H. Morrison, in December 1893, McKerrow was appointed as Superintendent of the Farmers' Institutes on June 20, 1894, at an annual salary of $2,000, and served until his resignation of May 31, 1914. From May 20 to July 15, 1911, he was on a leave of absence to visit livestock shows in Great Britain.

According to Ernest L. Luther, the last Superintendent, McKerrow thought more of his Oxford sheep and Guernseys than public office and did not want to leave his farm, sheep, and herd, but "fell to the cajoleries of Dean Henry and the agricultural committee of the regents, who permitted him to live on his farm and have time off during the growing season for a trial period of one year. Dean Henry added to his own many duties the work of completing Morrison's ninth year, and McKerrow took over not for one year but for twenty years."

During the McKerrow period, "the battle of silos, better breeding, better feeding, and spreading the new truths of the experiment station went forward on the basis of some 130 institutes and the 'Round-up' institute each year, including regular women's institutes where facilities permitted."

With the closing of the 'Round-up' institute of 1914, McKerrow returned to his farm in Waukesha County. During his twenty years as Superintendent, the Wisconsin Legislature had increased the appropriation from $5,000 a year to $20,000.

In addition to his University responsibilities and his farm, he was actively involved in many associations, serving as president of the American Oxford Down Sheep Breeders' Association and of the American Association of Farmers' Institute

Managers (1897), as well as vice president of the National Horse Breeders' Association, of the Wisconsin State Board of Agriculture, the Farmers' National Congress, and the Wisconsin Good Roads League. He also served as director of the

American South Down Breeders' Association.

McKerrow contributed articles to several agricultural journals including: American Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower, Breeders' Gazette, Farmers' Advocate, National Stockman and Farmer, Wisconsin Farmer and the Wisconsin

Farmers' Institute Bulletin.

References:

"George McKerrow, Superintendent of Agricultural Institutes" in The University of Wisconsin, Its History and Its Alumni, With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Madison, ed. by Reuben Gold Thwaites. Madison (Wis.): J. N. Purcell. 1899 : 329.

Luther, Ernest L.

"Farmers' Institutes in Wisconsin, 1885-1933." Wisconsin Magazine of History 30, no. 1 (September 1946): 59-68

http://cf.uwex.edu/history/indivbio.cfm?IndivID=183

Marriage: September 26, 1877, Archibald A. Rodgers home, Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin