Charles Rogers

Charles Rogers (April 30, 1800 – January 13, 1874) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Biography Rogers was born in Northumberland, New York, on April 30, 1800. His father died when Rogers was 10 years old, and after his mother's remarriage he was raised primarily by an uncle in Lake George. He attended Granville Academy, and graduated from Union College in 1818, where his classmates included William Henry Seward, Sidney Breese, Alonzo Potter and Augustus Porter. Rogers then studied law with his stepfather, Judge Esek Cowen, and was admitted to the bar. His father had been a successful lumberman and merchant, and Rogers was financially secure enough to pursue life as a gentleman farmer in Sandy Hill, along with research in botany and other scientific fields and writing on politics and other topics.