Will Rogers – Wikipedia

Rogers was born on his parents’ Dog Iron Ranch in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma.The house in which he was born had been built in 1875 and was known as the “White House on the Verdigris River”. His parents, Clement Vann Rogers (1839–1911) and Mary America Schrimsher (1838–1890), were both of mixed-race and Cherokee ancestry, and identified as …

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