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NAME ROGERS 993 ROGERS lege, and Henry D. Rogers, state geologist of Pennsylvania and regius professor of natural history in the University of Glasgow. Dictny, of Amcr. B;og. F. S. Drake. S. D. Gross. An Autobiography, vol. i, p. 67. Lives of Emin. Philadelphians Now Deceased. H. Simpson. 1859. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., New York, 1888. Rogers, John Coleman (1781-1855). Coleman Rogers, as he was called generally, was born March 6, 1781, in Culpeper County, Virginia. In 1787 his father emigrated to Kentucky, and settled in Fayette County, at a place known as Bryant's Station, about five miles from Lexington. Coleman Rogers was the seventh among eleven sons and one daugh- ter. .lthough six feet two Inches in height and weighing usually one hundred and eighty pounds, he was one of the smallest of the family, and in early life suffered from bronchial trouble. But little is known of his history prior to his twenl3'-first year, but it is probable he went only to the local schools. At the age of twenty-one he began to study medicine with Dr. Samuel Brown (q. v.), of Lexington. In 1803 he went to Philadelphia (making the journey on horseback in twenty-three days), where he remained eighteen months for lec- tures at the University of Pennsylvania. While there he was the private pupil of Dr. Charles Caldwell (q. v.). Although qualified, poverty prevented his graduating before leaving Philadelphia. On his return to Kentucky he settled in Danville, and formed a partnership with Dr. Ephraim McDowell (q. v.). In No- vember, 1805, he married Jane Farrar, and in 1810 returned to Fayette County, where he re- mained until 1816, when he again went to Philadelphia and eventually received an M. D. in 1818 from the University of Pennsylvania. While there he was offered the position of adjunct professor of anatomy in the medical department of Transylvania University; this he declined. In 1818 he removed to Cincin- nati, Ohio, where he became associated with Dr. Daniel Drake (q. v.) in practice, and was a colleague of Drake in the Medical Col- lege of Ohio, and one of the original incor- porators of that institution. He was vice- president and professor of surgery at its organization. In 1821 he removed to Newport, Kentucky, then a village opposite Cincinnati; settling finall}-, 1823, in Louisville, Kentuckv', where he remained. He was for ten years surgeon to the ^Marine Hospital in Louisville. In 1832, in connection with Drs. Harrison, Powell and A. G. Smith, he organized the Louisville Medical Institute and was appointed professor of anatomy. For more than fifty years he was in active and successful practice. He died, February 16, 1855, aged seventy- four years. A. G. Drury. Address on Coleman Rogers, M. D., by. H. M. Bullitt, Louisville, 1855. Rogers, Joseph Goodwin (1841-1908). Born in Madison, Indiana, November 23, 1841, he was the son of Dr. Joseph H. D. and Abby Goodwin Lane Rogers. His father was a giant in stature and of great force of character as befitted a pioneer physician in Indiana and Kentucky at an early day. His mother was a gentlewoman of refined and cultivated tastes. From his father he inherited a sturdy, forceful and strong character; from his mother refined tastes, high ideals and an artistic temperament. His education was largely derived from his mother, as at the early age of eight he suffered from Pott's disease and for many years was confined to bed. He became a diligent student and an omnivorous reader of good books and was self-taught to a remarkable degree. When eighteen he began to study medicine under his father's dictation, later at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, from the latter receiving his AI. D. in 1864. He served as a surgeon in a military hospital until the close of the Civil War, and then went abroad for two years of travel and study. He fitted him- self to practice as an ophthalmologist and upon his return, entered upon a successful career at Madison, Indiana, for many years. In 1879 he was offered the superintendency of the Indiana Hospital for the insane at Indianapolis, which, after much hesitation and at great personal sacrifice, he accepted as a duty owed to the public. For four years he devoted himself to the reorganization and development of the hospital and freed it from political and partisan interference. He proved to be too much in advance of .public opinion and he retired with honor at last rather than sacrifice his high ideals of right and duty. His special fitness for hospital management, however, had been proved, and in 1883 he was selected by the Governor of Indiana, and a newly appointed commission, medical engineer for the erection of three hospitals for the in- sane. He entered upon his duties with great enthusiasm and energy and at the end of five j-ears had planned and erected the North- ern Hospital at Logansport, the Eastern Hos- pital at Richmond, and the Southern Hospital at Evansville, Indiana, three modern hospi-