August Horton Rogers, the son of Rausie and George Martin Rogers, was born in the backwoods of Breathitt County Kentucky on August 25, 1905, where his father owned and operated a sawmill.
When the opening of new mines fell to a trickle (about 1915), his lumber business dropped the family moved to Louisville,
He was number 7 of 9 children, 2 girls and 7 boys.