Elizabeth Selden White Rogers (July 23, 1868 - December 18, 1950) was a civic reformer working to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation.
She was born on July 23, 1868, most likely in New Haven, Connecticut. Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton. She marr...
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Elizabeth Selden White Rogers (July 23, 1868 - December 18, 1950) was a civic reformer working to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation.
She was born on July 23, 1868, most likely in New Haven, Connecticut. Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, she was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton. She married John Rogers, Sr. (1865-1939) in 1895, he was later the at Cornell Medical School. Together, they had a daughter Elizabeth Selden Rogers who married Francis H. Horan. She was also the sister of
She was chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Woman's Party, and was one of the most forceful speakers in the "Prison Special" bus tour across the country; during which suffragists spoke of their experience in jail. Rogers was arrested on July 14, 1917 for picketing in front of the United States White House, and was sentenced to sixty days...
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