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Rogers, Henry Wade – Rogers, Nina Mandeville
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. *
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.