Rogers
Rogers names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Rogers HENRY WADE, an Amerin an jurist and economist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY WADE, an Amerin an jurist and economist, born ican land Patent, N. Y., in 185 1853. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was connected with the law department of the University of Michigan from 1883 to 1891. From 1890 to 1900 he was president of the Northwestern University. In 1913 he was appointed United States Circuit Judge. He was chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, in 1893, and general chairman 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 International 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); "Introduction to Constitutional History as Seen in American Law" (1889). He contributed many articles to encyclopedias and reviews.
Rogers HENRY HUDDLESTONE, an American capitalist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY HUDDLESTONE, an American capitalist, born at Fairhaven, Mass., in 1840. He was educated in the Fairhaven High School, and after being newspaper seller, clerk, and railroad worker, went to Pennsylvania and settled at McClintock's Wells. Here he entered the oil business and had great success in the kerosene industry. In 1870 he settled in New York and in 1874 cooperated in the establishment of the Standard Oil Company. Eventually he became 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 Amalgamated 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 JAMES EDWIN THO-
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JAMES EDWIN THO-
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's, writing in 1921, still treated Henry Wade Rogers as a living figure; he had by then left the presidency of Northwestern for the deanship of Yale Law School, and he died in 1926 while still a federal appeals judge on the Second Circuit. The "Henry Huddlestone Rogers" of the second entry is more properly Henry Huttleston Rogers, whose privately financed "Tidewater railroad" opened in 1909 as the Virginian Railway; it was absorbed by the Norfolk & Western in 1959 and its coal route is now part of Norfolk Southern. Rogers is remembered today less as a Standard Oil executive than as the man who rescued Mark Twain's finances and paid for Helen Keller's education, a side of him Collier's does not mention. The third entry, cut off after two words, is James E. Thorold Rogers (1823-1890), whose price and wage series from "A History of Agriculture and Prices in England" are still mined by economic historians.
Written for this edition, 2026.