 Chas and Anna had one daughter, Minnie Rogers (Zabriskie) (born 1857, died NYC) who would later play a role in his bed manufacturing business, becoming a leading player in the company following her father's death in 1917.Rogers began his entry in the bed manufacturing business contracting cots for Public School 135 in the Borough of Manhattan in 1854, with another bedding maker named Bradford Willard, a loose association which continued until the late 1850s.Due to bed bugs and vermin during this period in the city, iron and brass beds became fashionable both for style and as they harbored no hiding places for the pests as most wood furniture did.