Rodgers
Rodgers names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Rodgers RAYMOND PERRY, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
RAYMOND PERRY, an American naval officer, born in Washington, D. C., in 1849. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868 and was appointed ensign in 1869, rising successively to the rank of rearadmiral in 1908. He served from 1893 to 1897 as naval attaché in France and Russia, from 1897 to 1899 as executive officer of the "Iowa," taking part in the a. From 1899 to battle of Santiago, Cuba. 1901 he was in command of the "Nashville," seeing service in the Philippines, and in China during the Boxer troubles. From 1904 to 1906 he was in command of the "Kearsarge," from 1906 to 1909 chief intelligence officer of the Navy Department, and from 1907 to 1911 presi- College and C dent of the Naval War commandant of the naval station in Narragansett, Bay, retiring in December, 1911.
Rodgers JOHN, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American naval officer; born in Maryland, Aug. 8, 1812. He entered the naval service in 1828 and soon showed that he had inherited the bravery of his father, Commodore John Rodgers. He was in the war against the Seminole Indians and rendered excellent service during the Civil War. In November, 1861, he took part in the battle of Port Royal, and in November, 1862, he led an attack on Drury's Bluff, on the James river, in which he was repulsed. He commanded the "Weehawken" in the attack on Fort Sur Sumter, in April, 1863, and in the same year he captured the Confederate ironclad "Atlanta," near Savannah. He was promoted rear-admiral in 1869, and in 1877-1882 was superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory. He died in Washington, D. C., May 5, 1882.
Rodgers CHRISTOPHER RAY- MOND PERRY, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHRISTOPHER RAY- MOND PERRY, an American naval officer; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, 1819. In 1833 he entered the United States navy as a midshipman; was in active service during the Seminole and Mexican Wars; and in 1861 became commander. In that year, in the "Wabash" of Admiral Dupont's squadron, he was fleet-captain at the battle of Port Royal. He commanded, in 1862, an expedition to St. Augustine and up the St. Mary's river. In the attack on the defenses of Charleston, April 7, 1863, he was fleetcaptain on the "New Ironsides." He was captain appointed superin superintendent of the United States Naval Academy 1874-78, and 1881, and in the year 1874 was promoted rear-admiral. He was retired in 1881; and died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 8, 1892.
Rodgers JOHN AUGUSTUS, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN AUGUSTUS, an American naval officer, born at Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1848. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1868, and was appointed ensign in 1869, rising successively to the rank of 08. He saw active ser- . rear-admiral in 1908 vice during the Civil War and took part in the battle of Santiago, Cuba, in July, 1898. His various other assignments included service with the torpedo service, at the Washington Navy Yard, the Naval War College, the light-house service, etc. From 1904 to 1906 he was in command of the "Illinois," and from 1908 to 1910 he was in command of the Navy Yard, Puget Sound, Washington, retiring in July, 1910.
Rodgers JOHN, an American naval officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American naval officer; born in Harford co., Md., July 11, 1771; son of a Scotch colonel of militia. He was a captain in the merchant service by 1789, and in 1798 entered the navy as lieutenant, becoming captain the year after. In 1805 he extorted from Tripoli and from Tunis treaties abolishing the former tribute and forbidding the slavery of Christian captives. On June 23, 1812, he fired with his own hand the first shot in the war with Great Britain, and during the war he took 23 prizes. He died Aug. 1, 1838.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 treats "Rodgers" as a naval dynasty, from the Commodore John Rodgers who fired the first American shot of the War of 1812 down to the two rear-admirals who retired in 1910 and 1911, and those biographies still stand as written. What the 1921 editors could not yet see was that the family's fame was about to shift from ships to aircraft: Calbraith Perry Rodgers had already made the first transcontinental flight across the United States in 1911, in the Vin Fiz, and Commander John Rodgers (1881-1926), an early naval aviator trained by the Wright brothers, led the 1925 attempt to fly from California to Hawaii, sailing his stranded seaplane the last stretch to Kauai after running out of fuel. Honolulu's airfield was named Rodgers Field in his memory in 1927; the site is now the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport. The naval entries themselves need no correction, only company.
Written for this edition, 2026.