In Westerly, R. I., January 2, 1900, Professor Lester Courtland Rogers, aged 70 years and 22 days.
Prof. Rogers was born in Waterford, Conn., Dec. 11, 1829. He was graduated from Alfred Academy in 1853, and from Williams College in 1856, and from Rutgers Theological
Seminary in 1860. In 1862 and 1863 he was Chaplain of the Twenty-ninth New Jersey Volunteers. From 1858 to 1895 he served almost continuously as pastor of various
Seventh-day Baptist churches, his longest pastorate being at New Market, N. J. In 1888 he was appointed to the Charles Potter Professorship of History and Political Science in
Alfred University, a position which he held till failing health caused him to resign in June, 1898. He was ever an earnest and faithful Christian, a scholarly and efficient
instructor, a thoughtful and fluent writer, an able and eloquent preacher, and completed with his three score and ten years a well-rounded and useful life. He was married in
youth to Miss Josephine Wilcox, of Homer, N. Y., who with one son, Charles Potter Rogers, of New York, and a brother, Orson C. Rogers, of Westerly, R. I., survive him.
