 He was also active in supplying wholesale supplies to other furniture makers in the city including the Herter Brothers.Chas also opened a second retail location at 89 S. Salina Street in Syracuse, New York in 1882 and had moved locations to 346–348 S. Warren Street, Syracuse by 1885.In 1894, Rogers took on his first true partner, his nephew William O. Rogers (born 1864, died January 1, 1944, Madison, New Jersey.)