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Show LEWIS B. ROGERS of this city, who died suddenly yesterday in Nevada. is ;fe1sSs;i ; l'iv ' ,v- : ft m. fts 'W-s? ; : fcvjji . L i-.itji:i I i ,i ii., i in i,i 1 1 nU I DIES II fJEYl IS HE STEM 11 Lewis B. Rogers Stricken by Heart Failure at Town of Wabuska. A telegram from the sheriff at Wabuska, Wa-buska, Xev., yesterday announced the death of Lewis Burns Rogers, a well-known well-known insurance man of Salt Lake. The telegram stated that he was stricken with heart, failure just as he was boarding board-ing a train, and expired almost immediately. imme-diately. Mr. Rogers was a most active and successful suc-cessful business man. He was born in St. Louis, Mo.. July 10. 1357, coming to Salt Lake at the age of 18. It was not long until he became intimately acquainted ac-quainted vrith the Walker family ot this city, and for several years he was manager man-ager of the old Walker house, famed for manv years as one of the leading hotels of the west. In 1SS4 he married Jsina Holmes Walker, daughter of David F. Walker. Mrs. Rogers died in 1910. Mr. Rogers early became interested in the insurance business, in which he had engaged for the past twenty-five years. He was one of the five men sent to make insurance adjustments in San Francisco after the fire of 1906- He was superintendent of the Springfield Fire & Marine Insurance company and the Newark Fire Insurance, company of New Jersey for Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Montana. Mr Rogers was one nf the charter members of the local Elks lodge. He was also a member of the Commercial club of Salt Lake. ilr. Rogers is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mina Rogers Paynes, Gracia B. Rogers and Dorothy Rogers, a student in the University of Utah; one sister, Mrs. Alba B. Comfort of Douglas. Ariz., two grandchildren, Roger Walker Davnes and Barbara Dames. The body will be brought to Salt Lake for burial. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. |