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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, 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.