ROGERS
ROGERS
ROGERS, Robert Empie, chemist, was born
in Baltimore, Md., Marcli 29, 1813 ; son of Pat-
rick Kerr and Hannah (Blythe) Rogers, and
brother of William Barton Rogers (q.v.). His
early education was superintended by his father.
In 1826 he entered his brothers' school at Windsor,
Md., and in 1828 he matriculated at Dickinson
college, continuing his studies at William and
Mary college, 1828-31. In the summer of 1831 he
was employed in railway surveying in New Eng-
land ; spent the following winter in New York
city, where he delivered four lectures on chemis-
try ; resumed surveying near Boston, Mass., in
May, 1833, and in the fall entered the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania,
from which he was graduated in 1836. Mean-
while he constructed a galvanometer for his
brother James and assisted his brotlier Henry in
preparing models to illustrate the latter's lectures
on crystallography. He served as chemist to
the geological survey of Pennsylvania, 1836-43 ;
was acting instructor in chemistry in the Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1841—42, and professor of gen-
eral and applied chemistry and materia medica,
1842-52. He was married, March 13, 1843, to
Fanny Montgomery, daughter of Joseph S. Lewis
of Philadelphia, Pa. Upon the death of his
brother James in 1852 he became professor of
chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania and
dean of the medical faculty in 1856, and also
served as acting surgeon at the West Philadel-
phia Military hospital, 1862-63. In January of
the latter year, as the result of a painful injury
received while demonstrating the operation of an
ironing machine in the hospital laundry, he was
obliged to suffer the amputation of his right
hand. Dr. Rogers's wife died, Feb. 21, 1863, and
he was married secondly, April 30, 1866, to Delia
Saunders of Providence, R.I. With Dr. H. R.
Linderman, he was appointed. May 10, 1872, by
Secretary of the Treasury Boutwell a committee
to examine the melter's and refiner's department
of the U.S. mint at Philadelphia, Pa., visiting
in this connection the San Francisco mint, 1873,
and the assay-office in New York city, 1874, and
he executed several other government appoint-
ments of a similar nature, including the annual
assay commissions, 1874-79. He was a chemist
to the gas-triist of Philadelphia, 1872-84, and in
1877 severed his connection with the University
of Pennsylvania to become professor of medical
chemistry and toxicology in the Jefferson Medical
college of Philadelphia, retaining the position
until a few months before his death, when he
was made professor emeritus. He was a fellow
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons ; an
incorporator and member of the National Acad-
emy of Sciences ; president of the Franklin insti-
tute of Philadelphia, 1875-79, and a member of
various other scientific organizations, to whose
Proceedings he contributed. He also edited,
with James B. Rogers, " Elements of Chemistrj' "
(1846), and Charles G. Lehman's " Physiological
Chemistry" (2 vols., 1855). Lee: " Eulogy on
the Life and Character of Dr. Rogers" by J. W.
Holland. M.D. (1885). He died in Philadelphia,
Pa.. Sept. 6. 1884.
ROGERS, Robert William, orientalist.was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 14, 1864; son of Dr. Samuel and Mary (Osborne) Rogers ; grandson of John and Esther (Rapp) Rogers and of Wil- liam and Ann (Kerr) Osborne. He attended the Central High school in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsj-lvania, 1882-84, and was graduated from Johns Hojikins in 1887. He was a graduate student at Jolms Hopkins university, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford col- lege, and the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig ; and was instructor in Greek and Hebrew at Haverford, 1887-88. He was married, June 3, 1891. to Ida Virginia, daughter of Henry Zook and Elizabeth (Ascough) Ziegler of Philadelphia, Pa. He was professor of English Bible and Sem- itic history at Dickinson college. Pa., 1890-92, and was elected professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at Drew Theological semin- ary, Madison, N.J., in 1893, and non-resident lecturer at the Woman's college, Baltimore, Md., in 1896. He was a member of the Society of Biblical Archgeology, London ; the American Oriental society ; the Society of Biblical Liter- ature and Exegesis ; the Oriental club of Phila- delphia ; the American Philosophical society ; a member of the Eighth International Congress of Orientalists in Stockholm and Christiana in 1889, and a member and honorary secretary of the Assyrian and Babylonian section of the Ninth International congress in London in 1892 ; official foreign delegate to the Tenth International con- gress at Geneva, Switzerland, in 1894, to the Eleventh International congress at Paris in 1897, and to the Thirteenth at Hamburg in 1902. The degrees of A.M. and Ph.D. were conferred on him by Haverford college in 1890; that of D.D. by Wesleyan university in 1894, that of Ph.D. by the University of Leipzig in 1895, and that of LL.D. by Nebraska Wesleyan and Baker uni- versities in 1899. He is the author of : Two Texts of Esarhaddon (1889); Catalogue of Man- uscripts, chiefly Oriental, in the library of Haverford college (1890); Unpublished InscTrip- tions of Esarhaddon (1891); A Translation of the Inscriptions of Sennacherib (1892); Outlines of the History of Early Babylonia (1895), and A History of Babylonia and Assyria (2 vols., 1900).
ROGERS, Thomas J., representative, was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1781. He was brought to Easton, Pa., by his parents when three years
