Born in the city of New York, on the 7th of November, 1830, his parents being Edmund J. and Rebecca (Piatt) Rogers. His preparatory studies were pursued at Fairfield, Connecticut, and afterward at Northampton, Massachusetts. In 1844 he entered the university of the city of New York, from which he was graduated in 1848 with the first honors of his class. Soon after leaving college he went to Augusta, Georgia, where his elder brother then resided, and spent a year in teaching. Returning to the north in 1849 he commenced the study of law at Northampton, then the family home, in the office of the Hon. Osmyn Baker and Hon. Chas. Delano, then prominent members of the bar of Hampshire county, and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in the month of February, 1852. He removed to New York city soon after, and in the autumn of 1853 accepted an invitation to become professor of pleading, practice and evidence in the State and National Law School, then located at Poughkeepsie, New York. He continued to occupy this chair for two years, after which he returned to New York city and commenced the practice of his profession. In the autumn of 1856 he made a trip to the west and visited Davenport, Iowa, being induced to do so chiefly by the circumstance that his friend and former fellow-student, the late VV. H. F. Gurley, who, during the administration of President Lincoln, was United States district attorney for Iowa, resided there. The result was that in the following February (1857) he removed to Davenport. He formed a law partnership with his friend Gurley which lasted three years and was then dissolved, and in 1860, he formed another partnership with Chas. E. Putnam, Esq., formerly of Saratoga Springs, New York, under the firm name of Putnam and Rogers. Mr. Rogers has devoted himself almost constantly to his profession, evading all public offices, except one term (1866-7) which he served with great ability in the state legislature. In 1875 he was offered by the governor of Iowa the appointment of judge of the seventh judicial district, but declined it. He was for two years the chair of lecturer on constitutional law in the law department of the Iowa State University. Mr. Rogers was for many years a member of the Reformed church, but is not at all sectarian in his views, being in sympathy with all evangelical Christians. In politics, he was in early life a Whig. He was identified with the republican party. Shortly after removing to Iowa, in 1857, he married Miss Mary Norman, daughter of the Rev. F. H. Van Derveer, of Warwick, New York.
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