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William

Evans Rogers (April 11, 1846 –

March 10, 1913) was an American businessman and railroad executive who married

into the Fish family. Rogers was

born in Philadelphia on April 11, 1846, to William Evans Rogers, a Philadelphia

attorney, and Harriette Phoebe (née Ruggles) Rogers. Among his

siblings was Cornelia Rogers, who married Captain Samuel Emlen Meigs.

From December 1856 until October 1858, he was educated in Paris, France.[3] In 1861, he entered the University of Pennsylvania with

the class of 1865 where he was a member of the Philomathean Society and

the University Glee Club. Rogers, a corporal in the University Light Artillery,

left Penn at the close his sophomore year to enter the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He became a private in the 1st Troop of

Cavalry of the City of Philadelphia. He eventually graduated from the United States Military

Academy at West Point in 1867.[4] Following his graduation from West Point, he

served as a second lieutenant in

the Army Corps

of Engineers until he resigned from the Army in 1869.After

retiring from the Army, Rogers moved to Detroit, Michigan where he entered the lumber business

and helped organize Presque Isle County. Rogers City, Michigan, the

county seat of Presque Isle, is named in his honor.In 1875, he moved to Garrison, New York,

located just outside of New York City, where he worked as a cotton exporter.[1] In 1883, he was appointed him to the New York

State Board of Railroad Commissioners by then Governor,

later U.S. President, Grover Cleveland, serving for nine years total of which five were

spent as chairman. In 1892, he was admitted to the bar in New York and practiced

law.

Later, William Rogers worked for the Delaware,

Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. On February 13, 1868 Rogers

was married to Susan LeRoy Fish (1844–1909).

Susan was the daughter of Julia (née Kean) Fish[7] and Hamilton Fish, the former Governor of New York and U.S. Secretary of State (under

President Ulysses S. Grant). She was

also the sister of Nicholas, Hamilton Jr., and Stuyvesant Fish. Together, they were the parents of six

children, with one son and three daughters surviving, including.

·        

Julia Fish Rogers (1868–1938), who married the artist

Kenneth Frazier (1867–1949) in 1893.

rector of St. Square

former Brooklyn mayor and U.S. Representative Alfred Chapin, in 1908. They divorced in 1920 and she married

his cousin, Hamilton Fish III.

In 1892, Roger's wife and several members

of their extended families, were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred",

purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times. Conveniently,

400 was the number of people that could fit into Mrs. Astor's ballroom. Susan died of pneumonia at their home in New York on Wednesday, January

20, 1909. Rogers died in New York City on Monday, March

10, 1913. They are buried at St. Philip's

Church Cemetery in Garrison, New York.

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