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Roebling, Washington Augus- Tus
soldier, engineer, author, was born May 26, 1837, in Saxonburg, Pa. A suspension bridge was built over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry by him and many balloon ascensions were made for reconnoitering purposes and it was during one of these that he became the first to discover General Lee's army in motion for the march into Pennsylvania. Resigning in 1865 he took almost entire charge of building the suspension bridge in Cincinnati. Then came the Brooklyn bridge project, greatest work of all, undertaken first by his father. He is the author of Military Suspension Bridges.
Roehr, Julius Edward
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1892 he was elected a state senator for four years to the Wisconsin legislature. He is a successful lawyer and jurist of Milwaukee, Wis.
Roelker, Bernard
lawyer, author, was born April 24, 1816, in Germany. In 1856 he removed to the city of New York, and entered the firm of Laur and Roelker.
He soon established a large practice among the Germans. He published Constitutions of France; Argument in Favor of the Constitutionality of the Legal-Tender Clause in the Act of Congress, Feb. 25, 1862; and Manual for the Use of Notaries Public and Bankers. He also translated from the Swedish The Magic Goblet, a novel, and made a German adaptation of Cushing's Manual of Parliamentary Practice. He died March 5, 1888, in New York city.
Roemer, Jean
educator, college president, author, was born about 1815 in England. He was an educator of New York city, vice-president of the college of the city of New York from 1869; and the author of Dictionary of English-French Idicms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry; Principles of General Grammar; Cours de lecture et de traduction; Origins of the English People and Language; and Left in the Wilderness. He died Aug. 31, 1892, in Lenox, Mass.
Rogde, Peter Jacob
lawyer, was born Feb. 4, 1864, in Lee county, Ill. He received his education at the Northwestern university at Naperville, Ill.; the Luther college of Decorah, Iowa; and the law department of the university of Iowa.
He is a prominent lawyer of Sioux Falls, S. D.; has been state's attorney of his county; and takes an active part in public affairs.
Roge, Mrs. Charlotte Fiske
[BATES], educator, poet, was born in 1838 in New York. She is an educator and verse-writer of Cambridge and New York city who has written Risk, and Other Poems, and edited The Cambridge Book of Poetry and other works.
Rogers, Andrew J
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born July 1, 1828, in Hamburg, N. J. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Rogers, Anna M
educator, poet, was born in 1847 in Canada. She received her education in private seminaries, and has attained success in educaional work. For many years she has taught French in the public schools of San Francisco; and is the author of a volume of poems.
Rogers, Anthony a. C
merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 14, 1821, in Sumner county, Tenn. He was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-first congress.
Rogers, Asa
soldier, civil engineer, legislator, politician, was born Aug. 20, 1836, in Oakham, Va. He was a civil engineer up to April, 1861, when he entered the confederate service as a lieutenant in the first Virginia cavalry; was promoted to captain after the battles around Richmond in 1862; and served till the surrender at Appomattox. He then again took up engineering, and was elected railroad commissioner in 1880. In 1884 he was elected to the Virginia state senate; and in 1885 was appointed collector of internal revenue by President Arthur. For seventeen years he has been secretary of the republican state committee of Virginia.
Rogers, B. F
clergyman, poet. He is an eminent clergyman in the congregational church of Ft. Atkinson, Wis.; and is the author of a number of poems.
Rogers, Barton
educator, clergyman, poet, was born July 23, 1831, in Piermont, N. H. For three years he was chaplain of the fifteenth Illinois infantry during the civil war. He is a universalist clergyman and well-known in his denomination as an organizer and builder of churches.
Rogers, Charles
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served in the assembly of New York from Washington county in 1833 and 1837; and was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1845.
Rogers, Daniel
governor. He was governor of Pennsylvania in the years 1797 and 1798.
Rogers, Dennis Lucretius
lawyer, was born July 26, 1850, in Grand Rapids, Mich. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of his native city; and attended the Michigan state university. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer in his native city; is captain of the second regiment of the Michigan national guard; and is prominent in public affairs.
Rogers, Ebenezer Platt
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 18, 1817, in New York city. In 1862 he accepted the charge of the South Reformed church in New York city, where he continued until a few months before his death. He was the author of Earnest Words to Young Men in a Series of Discourses; and Historical Discourse on the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Albany. He died Oct. 23, 1881, in Montclair, N. J.
Rogers, Edward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1780 in Connecticut. He was for many years county judge of Madison county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1843 to 1845. He died May 23, 1857, in Galway, N. Y.
ROGERS, FAIRMAN; educator, author, was born Nov. 1, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a professor of civil engineering in the university of Pennsylvania in 1855-70; and the author of The Magnetism of Iron Vessels.
Rogers, Franklin Whiting
artist, was born Aug. 27, 1854, in Cambridge, Mass. He has devoted himself especially to the painting of dogs. Among his works are The Two Friends; Steady; Resignation; Loo; and Mischief.
Rogers, Henry Darwin
educator, geologist, author, was born Aug. 1, 1808, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a noted geologist who was professor in the university of Pennsylvania in 1835-46, and held the chair of natural history in the Scottish university of Glasgow from 1857 till his death. He was the author of The Geology of Pennsylvania; and Geological Map of Pennsylvania. He died May 29, 1866, near Glasgow, Scotland.
Rogers, Henry J
inventor, was born in 1811 in Baltimore, Md. He devised the code of signals by means of flags that is known by his name, which was adopted by the United States navy in 1846 and modified in 1861. He also devised a code of signals by means of colored lights, which was the first pyrotechnic system invented. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in Baltimore, Md.
Rogers, Henry Wade
lawyer, educator, college president, was born Oct. 10, 1853, in Trenton Falls, N. Y. Since 1890 he has been president of the Northwestern university of Evanston and Chicago. He has written a law treatise on Expert Testimony; compiled the Illinois Citations; and contributed to Forum, the North American Review, and other publications.
Rogers, Horatio
lawyer, jurist, author, was born May 18, 1836, in Providence, R. I. He is a Providence jurist who has published The Private Libraries of Providence; Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr; and edited Hadden's Journal and Orderly Books.
Rogers, J. H
musician, composer, was born in Germany. He is a successful. musician of Cleveland, Ohio; and the author of a number of songs and compo-- sitions.
Rogers, James
lawyer, congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837, and again from 1839 to 1843.
Rogers, James Harris
electrician,. inventor, was born July 13, 1850, in Frank-- lin, Tenn. In 1877 he was appointed. electrician at the United States capitol in Washington, D. C., and he continued in that office until 1883. He was the inventor™ of the secret telephone that was sold in New York for $80,000, also of the national improved telephone, and of the pan-elec-- tric system. He has lately devised what he calls visual synchronism.
Rogers, James Webb
soldier, clergyman, lawyer, author, poet, was born July 11, 1822, in Hillsborough, N. C. Heis a writer who in early life was an episcopal clergyman in Tennessee, and during. the civil war a confederate officer. He became a Roman catholic in 1878 and settled in Washington as a lawyer. He is the author of Lafitte, or the Greek Slave; Arlington, and Other Poems; and Parthenon.
Rogers, John
college president, was. born in January in 1631 in England. In 1682 he was elected president of Harvard college, resigning in 1684. He died July 2, 1684, in Cambridge, Mass.
Rogers, John
congressman. He was. a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1775 to 1776; and was chancellor of the state. He died in 1789 in Annapolis, Md.
Rogers, John
merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born May 9, 1813, in Caldwell, N. Y. He was elected from..
New York to the forty-second congress... as a democrat.
Rogers, John
sculptor, was born Oct. 30, 1829, in Salem, Mass. He is modeler of the famed Rogers' groups, which he began as illustrations of the civil war.
Rogers, John C
physician, legislator, was born March 26, 1835, in Ireland.. During the civil war he served in the army as assistant surgeon, and has practiced medicine in Pembroke, Maine, since 1866. In 1890 he was elected to the state senate of Maine. *