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Rogers, Orville D – Rollins, Daniel G

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, 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professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological seminary, Madison, N. J., from 1893; and the author of Two Texts of Esarhaddon; Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; and The Inscriptions of Sennacherib.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, 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.

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.

Rollins, Daniel G

lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1842, in Great Falls, N. H.

He was assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1866-69; assistant district attorney of New York county in 1873-80; then district attorney till 1882, and then surrogate of the county till 1888.