Rogers, John Henry – Rolfe, William James
Rogers, John Henry
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 9, 1845, in Bertie county, N. C. He served in the confederate army from March, 1862, to the close of the war, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1877 he was elected circuit judge, and was re-elected in 1878.
He resigned in 1882, and was elected a representative from Arkansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a democrat. In 1896 he was appointed United States district judge for the western district of Arkansas.
Rogers, John R
merchant, journalist, governor, author, was born Sept. 4, 1838, in Brunswick, Maine. He was educated in his native town, learned the drug business in Boston and followed it for some years in Mississippi a n d Maine. He engaged in farming in Iowa and Kansas, and held several public offices in the latter state, serving as a commissioner of Harvey county for some years. He established and was editor for three years of the Kansas Commoner, now published at Wichita. He came to Washington in 1890, locating at Puyallup, where he has since resided. He was a member of the fourth legislature as a representative from Pierce county, and took a very active interest in legislation pertaining to education, coal mining and taxation. In 1896 he was elected governor of Washington. He was the author of the measure familiarly known as the barefoot schoolboy law, and it was due chiefly to his energetic efforts that the bill was enacted after a memorable contest.
Rogers, Mina L
poet, was born Sept. 22, 1840, in Franklin county, Mo. She has written both prose and verse for the periodical press; and her poems appear in Poets of America, Woman in Sacred Song, and other standard works.
Rogers, Nathaniel Peabody
journalist, author, was born June 3, 1794, in Portsmouth, N. H. He established at Concord, N. H., the Herald of Freedom in 1838, one of the pioneer anti-slavery papers in the United States. He wrote for the New York Tribune over the signature The Old Man of the Mountains. He died Oct. 18, 1846, in Concord, N. H.
Rogers, Nina Mandeville
educator, poet, was born April 17, 1842, in Natchez, Miss. She has attained a favorable reputation as a poet of the south, especially in the state of South Carolina. For many years she has been engaged in educational work, and resides in Florence, S. C.
Rogers, Orville D
poet, was born in 1867 in Marietta, Iowa. He has been editor of the Brooklyne Blade of Denver, Col.; and has filled several public positions in Kit Carson county, Col. He has contributed extensively both prose and verse to the periodical press; and his poems have been a valuable acquisition to current literature.
Rogers, Randolph
sculptor, was born July 6, 1825, in Auburn, N. Y. He opened a studio in New York, where he remained until 1855. Among his earlier works are Ruth, an ideal bust; Nydia; Boy Skating; Isaac, full-length; and the statue of John Adams, in Mt. Auburn cemetery. One of his best-known works, the bas-reliefs on the doors of the capitol at Washington, representing scenes in the life of Columbus, was designed in 1858, and cast in bronze at Munich. In 1861 he completed the Washington monument at Richmond, which had been left unfinished by Thomas Crawford.
Rogers, Robert Cameron
littérateur, author, was born in 1862 in New York. He is a littérateur of Buffalo; and the author of The Wind in the Clearing, and Other Poems; Will of the Wasp, a yarn of the War of 1812; and Old Dorset, a collection of short stories.
Rogers, Robert William
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1864 in Pennsylvania. He is a methodist clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological seminary, Madison, N. J., from 1893; and the author of Two Texts of Esarhaddon; Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; and The Inscriptions of Sennacherib. In
Rogers, Sherman Skinner
lawyer, legislator, was born April 16, 1830, in Bath, N. Y. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Buffalo, N. Y., where he has practiced his profession since 1854. 1873 he was a member of the constitutional commission of New York; in 1875-76 was a senator in the New York state legislature; and during 1884-87 was one of the first commissioners of the Niagara Falls state reservation. Since 1881 he has been president of the Reform association of Buffalo, N. Y.; and has always been active in public affairs pertaining to the material interests of his adopted city.
Rogers, Sion H
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 30, 1825, in Wake county, N. C. He was elected to the thirty-third congress; and was elected to the legislature of North Carolina in 1860. He served in the confederate army as colonel of the forty-seventh North Carolina regiment. He was attorney-general of North Carolina from 1862 to 1868; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Rogers, Thomas J
journalist, congressman, author, was born in 1781 in Ireland. He was the author of biographical dictionaries of revolutionary worthies; edited a political paper; and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1818 to 1824. He died Dec. 7, 1832, in New York city.
Rogers, William
educator, clergyman, was born July 22, 1751, in Newport, R. I. In 1789 he was chosen professor of oratory and English literature in the college of Philadelphia, and in 1792 to the same post in its successor, the university of Pennsylvania, which place he resigned in 1811. He died April 7, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rogers, William Augustus
astronomer, educator, was born Nov. 13, 1832, in Waterford, Conn. The observatory at Alfred was built and equipped by him. In 1870 he was appointed assistant in the Harvard observatory, and he became in 1877 assistant professor of astronomy. In 1886 he was called to the chair of astronomy and physics at Colby university.
Rogers, William Barton
scientist, college president, author, was born Dec. 7, 1804, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an eminent scientist of Boston, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1862, and its president in 1862- 70, and again in 1878-81. He was the author of The Geology of the Virginias; Elements of Mechanical Philosophy; and The Strength of Materials. He died May 30, 1882, in Boston, Mass.
Rogers, William F
soldier, congressman, was born March 1, 1820, in Northampton county, Pa. In 1864 he was appointed provost marshal of the thirtieth district of New York. He was elected comptroller of the city of Buffalo in 1866, and mayor in 1868. He was appointed major-general of the fourth division national guard; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth congress.
Rohde, John Martin
educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 28, 1852, in St. Louis, Mo. He graduated from the Central Wesleyan college of Warrenton, Mo., and immediately began educational work. In 1881 he entered the St.
Louis German Methodist Episcopal conference, and has filled pastorates in Mount Vernon, Bland, Morrison, Pinckney, and Steinhagen, Mo. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Central Wesleyan college; and the author of The Joy of Prayer, a work on devotion, now in its third edition.
Rohe, George Henry
physician, author, was born Jan. 26, 1851, in Baltimore, Md. He is a successful physician of Baltimore, Md.; and author of Textbook of Hygiene; Manual of Skin Diseases; and Annual, Universal and Medical Sciences.
Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna Katharine
[GREEN], author, was born Nov. 11, 1846, in Brooklyn, N. Y. She is a very popular novelist of Buffalo whose detective romances display much inventive skill. She is the author of The Sword of Damocles; The Leavenworth Case; A Strange Disappearance; Hand and Ring; The Mill Mystery; Behind Closed Doors; Cynthia Wakeham's Money; Marked Personal; Miss Hurd; An Enigma; Dr. Izard; Old Stone House, and Other Stories; 7 to 12; X, Y, Z; The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock; That Affair Next Door; Risifi's Daughter, a Drama; and The Defense of the Bride, and Other Poems.
Rohrbacher, Phillipp
engineer, business man, was born Jan. 30, 1838, in Germany. In 1853 he crossed the plains to California, and became chief engineer of the Stockton fire department. He was the president of the United States Brewing company of San Francisco, Cal., and president of the Royal Eagle Distilleries company of San Francisco and Owensboro, Ky. He was supreme arch of the United States United Ancient Order of Druids at the time of his death, which occurred on April 25, 1897, in San Francisco, Cal.
Rolfe, John Carew
educator, author, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of Latin in the university of Michigan; and the author of Heauton Timorumenos of Terence.
Rolfe, William James
scholar, educator, author, was born Dec. 10, 1827, in Newburyport, Mass. He is a distinguished Shakespearean scholar and educator of Cambridge. He has published Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated editions of Shakespeare, the Friendly Edition in twenty volumes, and a School Edition in forty volumes; and a series of annotated editions of selections from Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith, Scott, and other English poets.
He has also edited Craik's English of Shakespeare; and is co-author with J. H.
Hanson of several classical text-books, and with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge Physics.