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Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840 - 1909) An evaluation on the 150th Anniversary of his Birth by Earl J. Dias The Millicent Library Fairhaven, Historical Series Few men in the history of this nation have left so indelible a mark or exerted so enduring an influence on their native communities as Henry Huttleston Rogers.
Rogers, Henry Huttleston Rogers: Portrait of a Capitalist . published in 1974. This title suggests that Dias saw Rogers as a great captain of industry although this point is not really argued within the book. Dias primarily discussed Rogers’s personal life and briefly delved into some of his business expeditions. In the preface Dias wrote that:
Henry Huttleston Rogers, the Standard-Oil magnate who became one of the most powerful tycoons of his day, was born in 1840. He lived during his childhood and early youth in the house at 39 Middle Street, which still stands today. 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 ...
engineered by Henry H. Rogers between 1 893 and 1 900 (Davis, S. xiv).1 Henry Huttleston Rogers, who was on the second level of authority at Standard Oil but second to none in business savvy, and was called "Hell-Hound" Rogers by his detractors, predicated his strategy for helping Clemens on the fundamental public relations principle
Henry Huttleston Rogers, Fairhaven's most distinguished son, was born there Jan. 29, 1840, and died May 19, 1909, in New York City. Of typical New England stock and Old Colony antecedents, his continued identity with Fairhaven made him dearly beloved in that community. The Rogers family is, perhaps, one of the most ancient and numerous of the old settled families in the country. There were no ...
26. Apr. 2015 · Among the treasures, Harry inherited after his father’s death in 1909 was perhaps the one Henry Huttleston Rogers loved most — his 85-room mansion on Fourth Street in Fairhaven.
A later generation may not recognize Henry Huttleston Rogers as instantly as Clemens’s generation did. The magnitude of his wealth, the ruthlessness with which he was said to have gained and controlled it, and his occasional benefactions were envied, feared, or applauded by his contemporaries. But he was among the last of his kind: “the astonishing career of Mr. Rogers,” explained an ...
