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while serving as examiner for the Uuivtrsitj* of Wisconsin and Lake Forest university. He then took service in the Catliolic Apostolic church and acted as evangelist for six yeai-s, making his home in Philadelphia, and in 1S90 became pastor of the sjime clmrch in Hartford, Conn., resigning in 1S92 because of failing health. He received the dt'gree D.D. from Berea in 1901. He is the author of: Birth of Bcrca College: A Story of Providener, with an introduction by Hamilton Wri.icht Mabie (UiOo).

ROGERS, John Henry, representative, was born in Bertie county, X.C., Oct. 9, 1S45; son of Absalom and Harriet (Rice) Harrell Rogers, and gran.lson of William and Peggy (Parker) Rogers and of James and Celia (Yates) Rice. His grand- parents antedate the Revolution of 1776, and were all Nortli Carolinians. He served in the Con- federate army as a private, and later as 1st lieuten- ant in the 9th Mississippi infantry, 1862-65; was graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1N6"^; taught school, studied law and was ad- mitted to the bar of Mississippi. He removed lo Fort Smith. Ark., in 1S69; was married, Oct. 9, 1S73. to Mary Gray, daugiiter of Dr. Tlieodore and Elizabeth (Sidney) Dunlop of Danville, Ky.; was circuit judge of the state, 1877-82, and a Democratic representative in the 48th-51st con- gresses, 1883-1891. He was chairman of the Arkansas delegation to the Democratic national convention in 1892. and was appointed U.S. judge for the western district of Arkansas in 1896. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Centre college, Danville, Ky., in 1895.

ROGERS, John Rankin, governor of Washing- ton, was born in Brunswick, Maine, Sept. 4, 1838; son of John and Margaret (Green) Rogers; grandson of John Rogers; great-grandson of Capt. John Rogers, a privateersman of 1812, and a descendant of William and Dinah (Rankin) Rogers, who emigrated from Londonderry', Ire- land, just prior to the Revolutionary war. He was a clerk in a drug store in Boston, Mass., 1852-56; engaged in the drug business in Jack- son, Miss., 1856; taught school in Cumberland county. 111., 1858-60; and was married in 1861 to Sarah L., daughter of Cyrus Greene of Neoga, 111. He was principally engaged in farming from 1861-70. He was again in the drug busi- ness in Brunswick, Maine, 1870-75, removed to Neoga, 111., and engaged in the same business for one year. In 1876 he removed to Kansas and en- gaged in farming, and in 1878 became active in organizing Farmers' Alliances. He edited the Kansas Commoner at Newton, 1887-90, and in 1890 removed to Puyallup, Wasii., where he was elected a member of the state legislature 1893, and held other oflBces. He was elected governor of Washington in 1895, and was re-elected in

1899 for the term to expire in 1904. He is the author of: The Irrcj^ressible Conflict (l8iU); Look- ing Forward (1896); The Inalienable Rights of 2Ian (1898). He died at Puyallup, Wash., Dec. 26, 1901.

ROGERS, Moses, navigator, was born in New- London, Conn., in September, 1780. He assisted Robert Fulton in his experiments with the steam- boat, and in 1808 commanded the Clermont. He was associated with Robert L. Stevens in the ,.5

command of the '•■-^-'^'~^~'' ■=-- ---:-- —-~- Pluenix, the first ocean-going steamer that made the trip from New York to Philadelphiain June, 1809. He later commanded the steamer Savan- nah on her trial-trip from Charleston to Sa- vannah, for which vessel he had built a 90-horse power low-pressure engine, which he placed in the hull under the direction of William Scar- borough (q.v.). He had as a passenger in tiiis trial-trip President Monroe. In the Savannah Captain Rogers, with his brother Stephen as engineer, made the first trip across the ocean in a steam vessel, leaving Savannah, May 28, 1819, and arriving at Liverpool, June 18, 1819, and sub- sequently visiting Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Norway. In the passage across the Atlantic, her engines were used 14 of the 22 days consumed in the passage, sails being used 8 days to save fuel. He died in Cheraw, S.C, Sept. 15. 1822.

ROGERS, Randolph, sculptor, was born in Waterloo, N.Y., Jul}* 0, 1825. He received a common-school education and engaged in busi- ness in Ann Arbor, Mich., and in New York city until 1848, when he went to Rome, Italy, to study modelling with Lorenzo Bartolini. He opened a studio in New York city in 1850, and in 1855 re- turned to Italy. Among his works are: Ruth (1851); Xydia (1856); Boy Skating; Isaac, a full- length figure; Isaac, an ideal bust (1805); mem- orial monuments for Cincinnati (1863-64), Provi- dence (1871), Detroit (1872), and Worcester, Mass., (1874); Lost Pleiad (1875); Genius of Connecticut, on the capitol at Hartford (1877), and an equestrian group of Indians in bronze (1881). He executed the statue of John Adams, in Mt. Auburn cemetry (1857); the bas-reliefs en the doors of the capitol at Washington, represent- ing scenes in the life of Columbus, which were cast in bronze at Munich, in 1858; completed the Washington monument at Richmond, by adding the figures of Marshall, Mason, and Nelson; the Angel of the Resurrection; and portrait statues of Abraliam Lincoln for Philadelphia, Pa. (1871), and William H. Seward for New York city (1876). He died in Rome, Italy, Jan. 15, 1892.