John Rogers (Harvard)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Rogers
President of Harvard College
Term	1682 – 1684
Predecessor	Urian Oakes
Successor	Increase Mather acting
Born	(1630-01-11)January 11, 1630 Coggeshall, Essex, England
Died	July 12, 1684(1684-07-12) (aged 54) Massachusetts

John Rogers (January 11, 1630—July 12, 1684) was an English academic in early Colonial America. Eldest son of minister Nathaniel Rogers, he was born in Coggeshall, a small town in Essex, and immigrated to New England with his family in 1636. In 1649, at age 19, in the recent settlement of Cambridge (known as Newe Towne until 1638), he earned a B.A. from Harvard College which, only seven years earlier, in 1642, had graduated its first class of students. In 1652, following an additional three years of study, he received an M.A. and, in 1660, married Elizabeth Denison of Ipswich.

Residing in Ipswich and, despite neither having been ordained as a minister or trained as a physician, Rogers practiced medicine and assisted in the ministry of his brother-in-law, local historian William Hubbard, whose service as Ipswich pastor ultimately extended for more than 50 years. In 1682, Rogers was appointed President of Harvard, but having held the position for only two years, died suddenly at the age of 54.

References

Harvard History of the President's Office

Academic offices
Preceded by Urian Oakes	President of Harvard College 1682–1684	Succeeded by Increase Mather, acting

v t e Presidents of Harvard University

Eaton (as schoolmaster) Dunster Chauncy Hoar Oakes Rogers Mather* S. Willard* Leverett Wadsworth Holyoke Winthrop* Locke* Winthrop* Langdon J. Willard Pearson* Webber Kirkland Quincy Everett Sparks Walker Felton Hill Eliot Lowell Conant Pusey Bok Rudenstine Summers Bok* Faust

* indicates acting president

Authority control	VIAF: 53711449

Persondata
Name	Rogers, John
Alternative names
Short description	President of Harvard University
Date of birth	January 11, 1630
Place of birth	Coggeshall, Essex, England
Date of death	July 12, 1684
Place of death	Massachusetts

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.