Show Author and Inventor t I Dies at Age of 85 PORTLAND ore D Dec c. c 17 W- W 1 Lebbeus Harding Rogers 85 author inventor and industrialist died at athi athis athu hi hu his home here yesterday esterday If Rogers was born in Cincinnati Ohio July 26 1847 In 1870 he or organized organized organized or- or the Rogers Manifold Carbon Paper company in New York He Heim was irac granted 82 pat patents many of oC them for improvements of carbon paper products and was the inventor o of the system for laying for laying underground wires in flexible tubing He was atone at atone atone one time a director in 32 corporations He H founded and for 20 years was a director of the Mount Morris bank of ot New NevI York Pin tun ii his later years he wrote many pamphlets and books and md spent much of at II his 3 time traveling He had made hI his home here for the last ten years i- i Two sons L. L H. H Rogers Jr of New NewYork NewYork York and Homer A. A Rogers of oC Portland Port Port- land bad survive 1 1 |