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Kentucky New Era (Hopkinsville, KY)
September 23, 2011
Retired watchmaker keeps on ticking
For more than half a century, Francis Xavier Rogers, 87, has kept many of our clocks and watches ticking.Rogers, whose father and brother were both watchmakers, helped in the family watch repair business as a young boy. "I started helping my father by taking the clocks apart so they'd be ready for him to fix them," he said. All this happened in Boston, where his family later expanded the business to include a jewelry store. The arrival of Rogers in our community was the
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