The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-05-19
Master Mind, Who With John D.Rockefeller, Form ed Standard Oil Company, lAmalgamated Copper and Many of the Biggest Cor porations in the World.
(Special from United Presso

CTS, whose master mind and business ability more than anyone else's, with the possible exception of John D. Rockefeller made possible the forma- ton of the Standard Oil Company, the Amalge mated Copper Company and many of the biggest corporations in the world, is dead. Stricken with apoplexy while in bed at his town house, East 18th street, shortly after 6 o'clock this morning, he sank quickly and within an hour his physician, Dr. Edmund Prince Fowler, who had been hurried ly called from Pelham Manor to the bedside of the stricken millionaire, and had shattered all speed records to reach the patient, only to have his trip prove futile, pronounced him beyond all aid. At the bedside were Mrs Rogers, his son, H. H. Rogers, Jr., and his three daughters.
 News of MT. Rogers death was long time in reaching the outside world. short time before the stock market opened, however, some of the mi1lionaire's closest associates heard the news and they at once made ar engagements to protect the stock list from assault by the bears when they learned of MT. Rogers death. Word was quickly sent to the office of the Star 6ard Oil brokers and when the market opened all of them were on the floor of the Exchange. The result was as naQ been anI1C1pdISu fOT d. Lew moments the list was under pressure but then came a flood of buying orders from the Standard and allied brokers and the recessions were soon made up although there still existed a pan1cky feeling in parts of the room.
 |, MT. Rogers was at his office yester- day seemingly in about his usual health. Most of the day was occupied ginian Railway. the trunk line which he has just built from tidewater to the mountains of Virginia and West V1r- ginia. Born in 1840 in Mattapossett, Mass, he had been interested in many financial projects but it is doubtful If there was one of them that occupied his attention during the 69 years of his life which was as dear to him as this new railroad. He felt so strongly about it that he personally guaranteed the bonds of the company with his own private fortune. depositing as part of the general fund gilt edged securi- ties of the Standard Oil Company and several big railroad companies. After he had opened the road he came back to his home which had been made ready for him. Last night he had just completed the details of his pet jro- ject.
 The fact is generally understood that he had, at the time of lis death, no speculative connections whatever. John D. Ryan, who was very close to him said that he was certain there was no reason for public speculative appre- hension. MT. Rogers was interested in many corporations, being an officer in some 25 of them.
 Rogers, as a boy, attended the Fair haven High School and was graduated in it's first class. He was compelled to cramp his legs under the small seats used there and made VOW that when he got rich enough he would see that this was remedied. And he did, as the first thing he did after he got money was to give Fairhaven $75.00O school house. After leaving school he sold newspapers for a. while and then went to New Bedford where he became a clerk in a store at $3 a week. He held this place for five years and then became baggage master on the rail road at s1.16 a day. In the early sixties he started for the Pennsylvania oil fields to make his fortune, prev iously having married Miss Abbie T. Clifford of F'airhaven They went to McClintocks on Oil Creek, but after a short time Rogers came to Brooklyn to join the force at the Charles Pratt Oil Works. Soon afterwards he was taken into partnership in the firm and the partnership continued until in 1874 the union of the chief refineries in New York, Philadelphia. Cleveland and Pittsburg as the Standard Oil Com pany was effected
 Mr. Rogers became the head man Of the manufacturing concern and also one of the trustees. From that day to the time of his death he was one of the controlling factors or the cOnD1ne He was believed to have had more act ual experience in petroleum than any other man in the firm.
 MT. Rogers first wife died in 1895, and a year later he married Enelle Augustus Arndel, daughter of the head of a big diamond firm whose first hus- band whom she divorced. was Lucius R. Hart. MT. Rogers built a magnifi- cent Masonic Temple at Fairhaven and also supported a big orphan asylum. He is survived by his wife and three children, Henry H. Rogers, Jr., Mrs. w. E. Benjamin, Mrs. w. R. Van Broughton and Miss Mai Rogers-Mott- Coe. His youngest daughter eIoped with Joseph c. Mott in 1893 when she was but IT, but the parents sued for a divorce on the ground that the scou- pie had never lived together as man and wife and were minors. After the divorce was granted in June, 1900, she married William R. Coe.
 Many prominent financierS called at the home during today to express their sympathy. The meeting of the Ana conda Company was ordered postpon- ed out of respect to his memory.