The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
COL. FoRDYcE II. ROGERS /,
DEAD

1t is with very sincere regret that
this paper announces the death OF
Col. Ford H. Rogers, which occurred
on Monday at his home in Detroit
Michigan. He was personally well
known to the editor of this paper, and
we esteemed him very highly.
Col and Mrs. Rogers for the past
few years have been spending their
winters in this city, and have made
a great many warm friends here, who
will be much grieved to learn of Col
Rogers death. When they returned
to Michigan in the summer they had
planned to return to Ocala the first of
October for the winter, and were ex-
pecting to build beautiful winter
home here this year. A few weeks
ago news of Col. Rogers illness came
to Ocala, and they then expected to
be able to come by November first,
but on the second Col Rogers passed
away. The following account of his
life and death from the Detroit Free
Press of November 3rd will be of in
terest to his Ocala friends:
"Fordyce Huntington Rogers, for
many years one of Detroits leading
figures in the business world, with
many philantropic deeds to his
credit, died Monday at at the family
home, 81 Peterboro street, from a
complication of diseases due to his
advanced age.
"Mr. Rogers was native of De-
troit, born October II, 1910. He cele-
brated his seventy-fourth birthday
less than month ago. Those who
survive him are his widow, Grace J.
Haynes-Rogers, and two sisters who
live in California. The funeral will
be held Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock from his late home.
"Mr. Rogers life history reads like
a romance out of some old and treas
ured volumn. He was the son of
George w. and Jane Clark Emmons
Rogers, who came to Detroit from
Vermont in July 1910, and was a
nephew of Fl. M. Emmons, once a
noted federal Judge and prominent
not only in Michigan but elsewhere.
"The family later moved to Pom
tiac, where he was educated in the
public schools. After the war, in 1868,
he moved to California, becoming
cashier of the Pacific bank, of San
Francisco. There he married Eva C.
Adams and later engaged in extern
sive mining operations. His wife
died and he moved to New York. May
7, 1895 he married Grace J. Haynes,
who survives him.
In the year 1879 and 1880 he en-
gagged in business in New York as a
banker and broker. He then removed
to his home city, Detroit, and bought
the Detroit White Lead works from
an assignee in bankruptcy. Deem.
Der, %, 1880, the company was incor.
porated and he became it's general
manager and president. He was in.
strumental in bringing the company
to position where it's name is known
in all the leading countries of the
world, putting it on firm and grow
ing financial and manufacturing ba-
sis.
"Mr. Rogers did not confine his &C.
tivities to one company, however. He
was president of the American Paint
and Glass Co., the McLennan Paint
Co., and the Rogers Paint and Varnish
Co. He served in the first Michigan
cavalry in the war of the rebellion as
a first lieutenant and battalion adju
tant.
HE retired from all active duties
March 1, 1910, and then devoted his
spare time to philanthropic affairs
Many charities were aided by his gen
erous donations. He always had a
helping hand outstretched for young
men and assisted a number in estab
fishing themselves in business"