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Rogers was an average student, and he was in the first graduating class of the local high school in 1856. Continuing to live with his parents, he was hired on with the Fairhaven Branch Railroad , an early precursor of the Old Colony Railroad , as an expressman and brakeman .
Jan 2, 2023 · Mattapoisett was filled with rejoicing yesterday because of its new school building, the gift of Henry Huttleston Rogers, whose liberality to the towns in which he spent his boyhood is familiar to newspaper readers the country over.
Jun 22, 2020 · If Fairhaven, Massachusetts, has a resident philanthropist, it’s Henry Huttleston Rogers. Rogers, who made a fortune in oil refining, began donating buildings to his hometown in 1885,...
Henry Huttleston Rogers and Mark Twain first met in early October, 1893. The meeting, according to Twain himself, was "accidental and unforeseen."5 One of Rogers' friends intro-duced the tycoon to the author at a social gathering in New York. Since Rogers had been a long-time admirer of Mark Twain's work, he and the author at
Sep 1, 2021 · The handwritten manuscript of Mark Twain's speech given at the dedication of Fairhaven Town Hall in 1894. Henry Huttleston Rogers may have been one of the wealthiest men in the world in the...
A member of the first graduating class of Fairhaven High School, Rogers, after completing his secondary school studies, worked as a clerk in a grocery store, then as a baggage master for the Old Colony Railroad, and, at the age of 20, left to seek his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania.
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Youth and education. Henry Huttleston Rogers was born into a working-class family in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, on January 29, 1840. He was the son of Rowland Rogers, a former ship captain, bookkeeper, and grocer, and Mary Eldredge Huttleston Rogers.
