The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Among them are The Slave Auc-tion; Picket Guard; One More Shot; Conting to theParson; Going for the Cows; The Favorite Scholar;and a series of three groups, illustrating Irvings Le-gends of Sleepy HolloTv. He also executed the eques-trian statue of Gen. John F. Reynolds, which standsbefore the City Hall in Philadelphia. ROGERS, Randolph, an American sculptor;born in Waterloo, near Auburn, New York, July 6,1825. From 1848 to 1850 he studied sculpture atRome; then for five years he had a studio in NewYork, an
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . Among them are The Slave Auc-tion; Picket Guard; One More Shot; Conting to theParson; Going for the Cows; The Favorite Scholar;and a series of three groups, illustrating Irvings Le-gends of Sleepy HolloTv. He also executed the eques-trian statue of Gen. John F. Reynolds, which standsbefore the City Hall in Philadelphia. ROGERS, Randolph, an American sculptor;born in Waterloo, near Auburn, New York, July 6,1825. From 1848 to 1850 he studied sculpture atRome; then for five years he had a studio in NewYork, and in 1855 he returned to Italy. He residedmany years in Rome. His works include the idealbusts Ruth; Isaac; Nydia; Boy Skating; and TheAngel of Resurrection, which is on the monument toColonel Samujl Colt in Hartford, Connecticut; LostPleiad; Genius of Connecticut, on the state capitol atHartford; memorial monuments for Cincinnati,Providence, Detroit, and Dorchester, Massachusetts;an equestrian Group of Indians; and the portrait-statues yi^//;/ Adams, placed in xMount Auburn ceme-. JOHN ROGERS. 6o8 ROGERS —ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH tery; Abraham Lincoln, unveiled at Philadelphia in1871; and William H. Seward, at Broadway andTwenty-third streets, New York City. He also madethe bas-reliefs on the bronze doors of the capitolat Washington, which represent scenes from thelife of Columbus. He died in Rome, Jan. 15,1892. ROGERS, \M Barton, an American geolo-gist, brother of Henry Darwin Rogers (, in theseSupplements); born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,Dec. 7, 1804. He was educated at William andMary College, and became professor there in was made professor in the University of Virginiain 1835, and held this post till 1853, when he re-moved to Boston. During this period he made ageological survey of Virginia. In 1864 he organizedthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of whichhe became president. In 1876 the American Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Science chos
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