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Excerpt from The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings and Addresses of the Seventh Congress, at Lexington, Va;, June 20-23, 1895
The brothers rogers. By W. H. Ruffner, LL.D., of Lexington, Va. Four brothers who were all eminent in science; their ancestry; sketch of their father, Patrick K. Rogers, who was himself a college professor; the brothers educated at William and Mary College; Sketch of James Blythe Rogers, a great chemist and Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania; William Barton rogers succeeded his father as professor in William and Mary College; dominant family tendency led him into natural science; a strong and original investigator; first State Geologist of Virginia; the first scientist to read, describe, and publish to the world the true rock strata of America; divides the honors with his brother, Henry; his reports did incalculable service to science, and were of inestimable value in the development of Virginia's natural re sources; professor in the University of Virginia; his works on sci entific subjects of various kinds; his last years spent in Boston; Henry Darwin Rogers made Professor of Geology in the University of Pennsylvania while comparatively young; appointed State Ccolo gist of New Jersey before he was twenty-seven years old; made geo logical surveys of New Jersey and Pennsylvania while his brother William was engaged in doing the same service for Virginia; all four brothers engaged in the same kind of work simultaneously; noviii. The scotch-irish IN america.
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