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ROGERS 92 ROGERS Standard Oil Company. Eventually he be- came vice-president and was regarded as executive head. The money he made in oil he invested in other business, so that he became connected with the Amalga- mated Copper Company, United States Steel Corporation, the National Transit Company, and other mining, railroad, and industrial undertakings. He built the Tidewater railroad, 442 miles in length, exclusively with his own capital. He left over $100,000,000. Died 1909. ROGERS, HENRY WADE, an Amer- ican jurist and economist, born in Hol- land Patent, N. Y., in 1853. He gradu- ated from the University of Michigan in 1874. After studying law he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1877. He was con- nected with the law department of the University of Michigan from 1883 to 1891. From 1890 to 1900 he was presi- dent of the Northwestern University. In 1913 he was appointed United States Cir- cuit Judge. He was chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, in 1893, and general chair- man of the Saratoga Conference on the Foreign Policy of the United States, in 1898. He took a prominent part in the activities of the. Methodist Episcopal Church and acted as an official of many important committees. In 1908 he was chairman of the Committee on Interna- tional Relations in the Federal Council of the Churches. He was delegate to many international conferences on prison reform and other subjects. He wrote "Expert Testimony" (1883) ; "Introduc- tion to Constitutional History as Seen in American Law" (1889). He contrib- uted many articles to encyclopedias and reviews. ROGERS, JAMES EDWIN THO- ROLD, an English economist; born in Hampshire, England, in 1823; was Pro- fessor of Political Economy at Oxford, and will be remembered as a historian of economics. His principal work is "The History of Agriculture and Prices in England" (1866-1888), of which "Six Centuries of Work and Wages" (1885) is an abridgment. Among his other writ- ings are: "Cobden and Modern Political Opinion" (1873); "The First Nine Years of the Bank of England" (1887) ; "The Economic Interpretation of History" (1888); and "The Industrial and Com- mercial History of England" (1892). He died in Oxford, Oct. 12, 1890. ROGERS, JOHN, an American sculp- tor; born in Salem, Mass., Oct. 30, 1829; was a machinist in early life; developed u talent in clay modeling; and in 1858 went to Europe to study plastic art in Paris and Rome. He returned to the United States in 1859, and afterward produced a large number of statuettes in clay of a new composition. His first group, "The Checker Players," attracted popular attention. He became noted for statuette groups. He also executed the equestrian statue of General Reynolds, now at the city hall in Philadelphia. He died July 27, 1904. ROGERS. RANDOLPH, an American sculptor; born in Waterloo, N. Y., July 6, 1825; studied art in Europe in 1848- 1850, spending most of the time in Rome. He then returned to the United States; for five years had a studio in New York, and established himself in Rome in 1855. He executed the bronze doors of the Na- tional Capitol at Washington, D. C, and also several portrait statues and mem- orial monuments in Providence, Richmond, Detroit, and other cities. He produced busts that became famous, "Nydia," "Isaac," "Ruth," etc. His work was classed as "ideal." He died Jan. 15, 1892. ROGERS, ROBERT WILLIAM, an American orientalist, born in Philadel- phia, 1864. He was educated at the Cen- tral High School, Philadelphia, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins University, Haverford College, and the University of Leipzig, receiving the de- gree of Ph.D. from the latter two insti- tutions, and honorary degrees from several American universities as well as from the University of Dublin. From 1887 to 1888 he was instructor of Greek and Hebrew at Haverford College; from 1890 to 1892 professor of English bible and Semitic history at Dickinson College, and from 1893 professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis, Drew Theologi- cal Seminary. He was a member of numerous domestic and foreign oriental and archaeological societies as well as a member of various congresses of ori- entalists. He wrote: "Two Texts of Esarhaddon" (1889) ; "Catalogue of Man- uscripts" (1890) ; "Inscriptions of Senna- cherib" (1893) ; "Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia" (1895); "History of Babylonia and Assyria" (1900), 6th edition rewritten (1915) ; "The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria" (1909) ; "Cuneiform Parallels to the Old Testa- ment" (1912) ; "The Recovery of the Ancient Orient" (1912). ROGERS, SAMUEL, an English poet; born in Newington Green, London, July 30, 1763. His wealth, liberality, and social qualities gave his productions a great vogue. His best poem is the "Pleas- ures of Memory" (1792). He wrote also: "The Voyage of Columbus" (1812) ; "Jac-