Los Angeles County
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ROGERS, ROBERT IRWIN, Banking, Los Angeles, California, was born at El Paso, Woodford County, Illinois, November 22, 1868, the son of Samuel Talmadge Rogers and Mary Virginia (Pickrell) Rogers. He married Mabel Josephine Clement, June 28, 1895, at Willoughby, Ohio.
He attended the public schools of El Paso, Illinois, and later the high schools of the same town. Then he went to Eureka College, Eureka, Illinois, and completed his course there. To finish his education he went abroad, attending the Teichmannische Institute at Leipsic, Germany, for two years.
Mr. Rogers returned to America in 1891. On March 28th of the same year he went to Pasadena. He started to work for the National Bank of California at Los Angeles, October 11, 1891. Two months later he was advanced to the receiving tellership; four years later he was made paying teller. January 1, 1900, he was made assistant cashier. Went to the First National Bank of Pasadena, February, 1905.
As cashier, he remained with that institution two years, and then returned to the National Bank of California, at Los Angeles, as cashier, in January, 1907. He was elected vice president of the institution the same year.
His business interests have grown, and he is now an investor in various other enterprises and properties.
Mr. Rogers is a stockholder and director in the bank with which he has been identified so many years, and also a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of Pasadena and the Pasadena Savings & Trust Co.
He is a member of the California Club, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Country Club, Crags Country Club and University Club, of Los Angeles, and the Valley Hunt Club of Pasadena.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 186, International News Service,
New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2009 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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