Robert Empie Rogers
Robert Empie Rogers | |
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Born | Baltimore, Maryland | March 29, 1813
Died | September 6, 1884 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | (aged 71)
Education | University of Pennsylvania |
Spouses | Fanny Montgomery
(m. 1843; died 1863)Delia Saunders
(m. 1866; died 1883) |
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Robert Empie Rogers (March 29, 1813 – September 6, 1884) was an American chemist.
Biography
Rogers was born in
He graduated at the medical department of the
During the American Civil War, he served as acting assistant surgeon at the West Philadelphia military hospital 1862–63. There he suffered a serious accident which necessitated the amputation of his right hand.[2] In 1864, caught up by the "oil fever" sweeping the United States, he made a significant investment in the Humboldt Oil Company, of which he was one of the founders. By 1873, the investment turned out to be a total loss, his more than anyone's since he was the largest shareholder.[3]
Rogers was appointed in 1872 by the United States Department of the Treasury as one of a commission to examine the melters' and refiners' department of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. He visited the mint in San Francisco in 1873, and in 1874 the assay office in New York, and subsequently until 1879 he was frequently engaged on government commissions for the various mints, making valuable reports, in addition to which he served on the annual assay commissions from 1874 to 1879. From 1872 until his death, he was one of the chemists that were employed by the gas trust of Philadelphia to make analyses and daily photometric tests of the gas.
The degree of
Besides various articles in the transactions of the societies of which he was a member, and in scientific journals, he was associated with his brother James in editing Elements of Chemistry (Philadelphia, 1846), and edited Charles G. Lehman's Physiological Chemistry (2 vols., 1855).
In 1843 he married Fanny Montgomery. She died in 1863, and he married Delia Saunders in 1866. There were no children.
Further reading
- William S. W. Ruschenberger, "A Sketch of the Life of Robert E. Rogers, with Biographical Notices of His Father and Brothers," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, v. XXIII (1886).
- Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 49. October 1896. pp. 837–841. .
Notes
- ^ a b c Biographical Memoirs. Vol. V. National Academy of Sciences. 1905. pp. 291–309. Retrieved December 16, 2021 – via Google Books.
- Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 49. October 1896. p. 838.
- Popular Science Monthly. Vol. 49. October 1896. pp. 838–839.
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References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.