Rogers family papers, 1719-1955.

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Rogers family papers, 1719-1955.

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Correspondence and papers, ca. 1719 - 1955, pertaining to various members of the Rogers family, particularly the sculptor, John Rogers, Jr. Other correspondents include: John Rogers, Sr., Daniel Denison Rogers, Sarah Ellen Derby Rogers, Ellen, Martha, Laura, Clara, and Harriet Moore Francis Rogers, Eunice B. Thomas, and Derby Rogers, as well as some of John Rogers, Jr.'s business acquaintances, and other friends and relatives of the Rogers family. Many are letters written by John Rogers, Jr., describing his activities and experiences while in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1856-1857, in Chicago in 1859, and thereafter in New York City. He writes often about his work as a sculptor, mentioning various problems, people he meets, and technical matters. The miscellaneous papers include a diary kept by John Rogers, Jr. in southern Spain in 1849, including a few sketches, his passport, patents of some of his groups, his autobiography, transcribed by his son, Derby Rogers, genealogical papers about the Rogers and Bromfield families with biographical sketches of Daniel Denison Rogers, Elizabeth Bromfield Rogers, Martha Rogers, and Henry Bromfield Rogers, as well as a typed copy of Henry Bromfield Rogers's reflections on the death of the Rev. William Ellery Channing, and his report to the Rev. Frederick W. Knapp on the work of the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Savage's Station, near Washington, D.C., in June - October, 1862. Thre are also bank books, clippings, poems inspired by Rogers's groups, written by Elizabeth M.V. Schip ca. 1941, account books, albums, John Rogers Jr.'s passport, and a sketchbook of his containing working drawings of textile and other machinery made in the machine shops of the Amoskeag Corporation, Manchester, N.H. Some eighteenth-century family papers include papers of the Rev. Daniel Rogers: manuscript sermons, Hebrew grammar and other student notebooks, and a diary, 1740-1753, which includes descriptions of travel and preaching with George Whitefield.

5 linear feet (12 boxes)

Churchill County Museum

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Churchill County Museum

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Rogers, Daniel Denison, 1751-1825

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United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

Rogers, Laura Derby, 1834-1907.

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Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842

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William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) graduated from Harvard College in 1798. He served on the board of the Harvard Corporation from 1813 to 1826, where he worked for the establishment of the Divinity School, which occurred in 1816. A Unitarian minister, Channing served as the pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston from 1803 until his death in 1842. In 1819 he gave the landmark Unitarian sermon, Unitarian Christianity, which upon publication sold thousands of copies. A believer in the aboli...

Rogers, Ellen Derby, 1828-1894.

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Rogers, Harriet Francis, 1841-1927.

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Rogers, Clara Kathleen

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Mormon Brigham Young Academy student. From the description of Notes, 1893-1894. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122424960 ...

Rogers, John, 1829-1904

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John Rogers (1829-1904) was born in Salem, Mass., and received his education in the Boston public schools. While employed in various jobs he began to model in clay during his leisure hours and in 1858-1859 spent time in Rome studying methods of reproducing clay groups in plaster form. On his return, he went to Chicago where he exhibited, for a charity fair, "The Checker Players," a group in clay that attracted much favorable attention. During the Civil War, he modeled small statuette groups, mos...

Thomas, Eunice B.

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Amoskeag manufacturing company

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Amoskeag was founded in 1825 by Samuel Slater and others, with mills in Manchester, New Hampshire, and corporate headquarters in Boston, Mass. It was incorporated in 1831 and became one of the largest producers of cotton cloth in the world. It closed in bankruptcy in 1935, and its assets were taken over by Amoskeag Industries, formed by a group of Manchester citizens and businesses to act as a holding company and real estate broker for the bankrupt manufacturer. From the description ...

Rogers, John, 1800-1867.

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Brumfield family.

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Rogers, Derby, 1872-1955.

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Rogers, Daniel, 1707-1785

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Whitefield, George, 1714-1770

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Epithet: Reverend; of Add MS 34068 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fb Epithet: Reverend; Preacher British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001152.0x0000fc Methodist clergyman. From the description of Papers, 1750-1759. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504475 Clergyman and evangelist. ...

Perry, Martha Rogers, 1840-1925.

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Schip, Elizabeth M. V.

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Rogers, Sarah Ellen Derby, 1805-1877.

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Rogers family.

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John Rogers, Jr., was a successful sculptor, who worked mainly in New York City. From the description of Rogers family papers, 1719-1955. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476025037 ...