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* ROGERS. 228 ROGERS. oh(/i/ are found an account of his examinations written wliile in prison, and oilier papers. Consult the Life by Cliester (London, 1801). ROGERS, John {c.1572-1030). A Puritan divine. He was educated at Cambridge Univer- sity, became vicar of Honingham, Norfolk, in 15112; vicar of Haverliill, Sull'olk, in 1003, and from 100.5 luitil liis death was vicar of Dcdhani, Essex. He was a forcible preacher and his pub- lications, which were valued highly by English Puritans, include Slxly Memorials of a Godly Life (n.d.) : The Doctrine of Faith (1027); Treatise of Lore (1639) ; 1 Goilli/ and Fruitful Exposition Vpon All the First Epistle of Peter (10.30). His second son, Nathaniel (1508-10.5.5), was educated at Cambridge, w-here he graduated M.A. ; became curate at Bocking. Essex, and rep- tor of Assington, SufTolk. for five years, and in 1030 emigrated to New England, where he settled at Ipswich, ilass. He published a Letter Dis- coverinri the Cause of God's Wrath Against the Kation (1044). ROGERS, .ToHX (1829-1904). An American sculptor, born in Salem, JIass, He received his artistic training at Rome and Paris (1857-59). Upon his return to the United States he exhibited the "Slave Auction" (1800), which first brought him into prominence, and in 1860-05 he executed a series of war statuette groups in gray clay, among which were the "Picket Ciuard." "One More Shot," and "Union Refugees." His statuettes in green clay representing genre subjects, though very popular, cannot be classed as serious works of art. Among his works of this class are "Coming to the Parson" (1870), the "Charity Patient," and "Going for the Cows" (1873). Other statuette groups illustrate passages from Shakespeare, Irving's Hip Van Winkle, and Long- fellow's Miles Standisli ("John Alden and Pris- cilla"). His more ambitious efforts include the equestrian statue in bronze of General Revnolds (1881-83) in front of the City Hall. Philadelphia, and a bronze group of "Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman" (1887). ROGERS, Randolph (1825-92). An Ameri- can sculptor, born at Waterloo, New York. When twenty-one years old he went to Rome, and studied with the sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini until 1850, when he returned to New York. In 1855 he went back to Italy and remained there the rest of his life. During his visit to New York he exhibited some statues which attracted at- tention, among tliem "Nydia, the Blind Girl of Pompeii," and a "Boy with a Dog." Among his notable works may be mentioned a statue of ".John Adams" in the cemetery at Jlount Auburn, near Boston : the bronze doors of the new Capitol extension in Washington, the bas-reliefs of which represent the principal events of the career of Columbus ; the "Angel of the Resurrection" for the tomb of Col. Colt, at Hartford, Conn. (1801) : and figures of Jlarshall, JIason. and Nelson for the Washington monument at Richmond, Va., which was left unfinished by Crawford at his death. Rogers was extensively employed on a series of colossal memorial monuments for various American cities, as at Providence. R. I. (1871) ; Detroit, Mich. (1873): and Worcester, Mass. (1874). His other works include a colossal bronze statue of Lincoln for Philadelphia (1871) ; the "Genius of Connecticut" for the State Capi- tol in Ilartford; and a statue of W. II. Seward in New York (1870). Rogers presented a complete collection of casts of his works to the University of Michigan. ROGERS, Robert (1727-84?). An American soldier, one of the best known figures in the his- tory of American border warfare. Uv was horn, of Scotch-Irish parentage, at Londonilerry, N. H. In 1755, at the imtbreak of the French anil Indian Nar, he was connuissioned captain of a eom- l)any of rangers, which, under the name -Rogers's Rangers,' .soon became widely known. During the year 1756, with Fort William lleiirv as his base of operations, Rogers nnide thirteen daring raids into the country about Ticonderogu. In a scouting expedition to the north of Tieomlcroga in January, 1757, his band was almost annihilated by a greatly stiperior force of Indians and Canadians. Later Rogers accompanied Lord Loudon on his abortive Louisburg expedition, and in ilarch, 1758. he defeated a nmch larger force of the enemy near Tioondcroga. In August he re- pulsed an attack of the French under Marin near old Fort Anne. He took jiart in Wolfe's Quebec expedition, and later destroyed the village of the Abenakis, or Saint Francis Indians, who had long been the scourge of the New England frontier, though his own force was almost annihilated be- fore he got back to the English outposts. In 1700 he was with Amherst at the capture of Mon- treal, and late in the year was sent to Detroit, which capitulated to him. For some time there- after he lived quietly in New Hampshire, but in 1765 was in England, where he published his Journal, and also his more popular Account of 'North America. In 1700 he was made commander of the post of Michilimackinac, but two years later was sent in irons to Montrcai on a charge of conspiring to turn the fort over to the French. He was acquitted by court-martial, however, and in 1772-73 was in the Algerine ser- vice. At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he was suspected by the Patriots of being a Tory, was arrested in Philadelphia in 1775, and was turned over on parole to the New Hampshire authorities by order of Congress, but escaped to New York, where he was given a colonel's com- mission by Lord Howe, and recruited the Loyalist regiment known as the 'Queen's Rangers.' He resigned, however, and went to England in the winter of 1770-77, but returned to .America to- ward the end of the war, and for a time com- manded a second Loyalist regiment, which he re- cruited in Canada. Although he is generally said to have died in London in ISOO, according to a familytradition his death took place in 1784. His Journal (1705) contains valuable details of the French and Indian War. .4 Conciise Account of Xorth America (1765). intended to be a popular account of frontier life, particularly of the Indians, is a curious compound of fact and fic- tion. Rogers is also credited with the author- ship of a tragedy entitled Ponteach; or the Saimges of North America (1776). ROGERS, Robert William (1864—). An American Orientalist, born in Philadelphia. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, at .Johns Hopkins, where he graduated in 188". and at Leipzig and Berlin. .After three years as professor of English Bible and Semitic history at Dickinson College, he was appointed to n chair of Hebrew and exegesis in Drew Theological