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GEORGE ALFRED ROGERS
ROGERS, GEORGE ALFRED, Merchant and Contractor, Los Angeles, California, was born March 26, 1876, at Plattsburg, New York, the son of Robert H. Rogers and Hattie M. (Schutt) Rogers. On March 26, 1907, he married Ethel S. Benson at Long Beach. There are two children, Helen Faye and George Alfred Rogers, Jr.
He was educated in the schools of Plattsburg and then went to Cornell University where he received his LL.B. in June, 1897.
After graduation he went into general contracting. He built the roads and water systems for the United States government barracks at Plattsburg and at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, dredged and removed rock for the government in New York harbor, Boston harbor, and Newport. Later he built water systems in North and South Carolina.
He went to Los Angeles, November, 1905, and took up the sale of road making machinery and contractors’ supplies. Is building roads for Los Angeles County.
He is a member of the Phi Sigma Kappa College Fraternity, the Masonic Order, the Cornell Club of Southern California, the University Club of Los Angeles, the City Club of Los Angeles and the Chamber of Commerce.
Transcribed 7-24-09
Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 321,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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