William Barton Rogers (Person)
William Barton Rogers
1804 AD - 1882 AD
American geologist, physicist, and educator who founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- 3rd President of the National Academy of Sciences 1879–1883 Preceded by Joseph Henry
1st President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1878–1881
During the time Rogers lived in Virginia, he was a slaveowner, with two slaves in his household in 1840 and six slaves in 1850; one, his cook, was Isabella Gibbons.
In 1849, he married Emma Savage of Boston.
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