Show z- z ii S 'S 4 I ah I Iti ti p tl 0 M JL p eg t p ib a 4 C k I r- r S c HE H. H ROGERS II I. J I HENRY ENRY H. H ROGERS LIFE STORY BRIEFLY TOLD Born in Mass Large stockholder director and vice president of Standard Oil com corn pany President and director Amalgamated Copper company President and director National Transit company National Fuel Gas company New Hew York Transit company Richmond Light and Railway com corn pany 0 Vice-president Vice Anaconda Copper Min Mining cOl company l any United Metals S Selling Sell ll ing company Brooklyn Union Gas company Trustee Mutual Life Insurance company of New York Yort Director United States Steel corporation Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul Railway company Union Pacific Railroad company New Jersey Terey Staten Island Ferry company Rapid Transit Ferry Terry company Staten Island Ferry company company- Atlas Tack company Farmers' Farmers Loan and Trust company Guaranty Trust company Mutual Alliance Trust company National Bank of Fairhaven New York Carbide and A company Richmond Borough company Tennessee Copper company etc Member Union league Engineers' Engineers Metropolitan New York Ya Yacht ht and Lotos clubs Mado Made many gifts to public institutions of Fairhaven M Member of American Fine ine Arts society Now New England society Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan polita museum of fine arts American museum of ot natural history His last great enterprise was the building of the Virginia railway miles long from Deep Water W W. Va to Sewalls Sewall's point Va largely with his his' own private fortune The railway cost coat Mr Rogers was one of the half dozen richest men in the United States b but t it it is impossible to reach leach an accurate tc estimate of the value of ot his prop pron- cities S The stroke he suffered today was va-s the second attack of the tIle kind and Mr Rogers heeded tho warning of tho the first suffered in 1907 and gradually withdrew from speculative enterprises and placed his affairs in such a that death is expected to cause but little change in in the tha conduct of the many enterprises with which ho was connected |