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John Almanza Rowley Rogers was born on 12 November 1828 in Cornwall, Connecticut, the son of John C. and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Rogers.
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John Almanza Rowley Rogers was born on 12 November 1828 in Cornwall, Connecticut, the son of John C. and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Rogers.
He attended Williams Academy, Stockbridge, Massachussets, until his parents moved to Ohio, and then entered Oberlin College.
After receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1851, he prepared for the ministry in Oberlin Theological Seminary, supporting himself by teaching in Oberlin Academy and, during the long vacations, in New York City.
He graduated in 1855.
On his wedding trip at the beginning of 1856 he was asked to take a group of orphans to Roseville, Illinois. After preaching in the Congregational church of that town, he was invited to become its pastor and was there ordained.
He remained in Roseville for about two years, and then, hearing that a friend had given up missionary work in Kentucky because of hardship and danger, he felt impelled to go there himself. The spirit and ideals of antislavery Oberlin had made a deep impression upon him, and he felt that nothing could help Kentucky so much as a similar Christian college.
A few years before, John Gregg Fee had established an antislavery church in what came to be known as Berea, Madison County, Kentucky, and in 1855 had opened a school. Rogers chose this place for his labors and in April 1858 moved to Berea with the endorsement and financial support of the American Missionary Association. Here he and his wife began teaching fifteen pupils in a room the sides and roof of which were of split clapboards. Rogers made desks, maps, and charts, and introduced such startling innovations as music, pictures, and lectures. The school proved popular, and before the close of the term its enrollment had greatly increased. The following term two additional teachers were employed.
Rogers was one of the little group which drew up a constitution for a college, completed and signed in July 1859, a stipulation of which was that the college should be "under an influence strictly Christian, and, as such, opposed to sectarianism, slaveholding, caste, and every other wrong institution or practice. "
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry inflamed the whole South and in December 1859 Rogers and ten others were ordered by an armed mob to leave the state. They appealed to Governor Magoffin, who answered that he could not protect them. They then left the state, but continued to make payments on land they had bought for the site of the college.
After serving for a time as traveling secretary of the American Missionary Association, in New York and New England, Rogers became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Decatur, Ohio, with the understanding that he might leave at a month's notice and return to Kentucky.
In 1865 the exiles went back to Berea and reopened the school. Rogers conducted it and was also associated with Fee in the pastorate of the church. A college charter was obtained and the institution grew rapidly. Rogers was instrumental, in 1868, in having the trustees call Edward H. Fairchild, then head of the preparatory department at Oberlin, to the presidency, but remained as professor of Greek until 1878, and served as trustee up to the time of his death.
After resigning his professorship, he was pastor of a church in Shawano, Wisconsin, for five years.
He then retired to Hartford, Connecticut His death occurred at the home of a daughter-in-law in Woodstock, Illinois,
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After preaching in the Congregational church of that town, he was invited to become its pastor and was there ordained.
After serving for a time as traveling secretary of the American Missionary Association, in New York and New England, Rogers became pastor of the Presbyterian church in Decatur, Ohio, with the understanding that he might leave at a month's notice and return to Kentucky.
They appealed to Governor Magoffin, who answered that he could not protect them.
In 1856 Rogers married Elizabeth Lewis Embree of Philadelphia, a Quaker girl.
John Raphael Rogers was his son.
