Benjamin Talbot Rogers

Background

Rogers, Benjamin Talbot was born on August 3, 1865 in Rockland, Michigan, United States. Son of Benjamin Talbot and Sarah Louise (Johnson) Rogers.

Education

Bachelor of Laws, Lawrence University, 1886, Master of Arts, 1889. Bachelor of Divinity, Nashotah House, 1889, Doctor of Divinity, 1907.

Career

Deacon 1889, priest, 1889, Protestant Episcopal Church. Rector Saint James’ Church, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1889-1893. Warden Grafton Hall, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, 1893-1916, and canon Saint Paul’s Cathedral.

Warden Racine (Wisconsin) College, 1916-1919.

Professor ecclesiastical history, DeLancey Divinity School, Buffalo, New New York Historiographer, 1929-1933, and assistant minister Trinity Church, New New York

Member of staff Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.

Achievements

• Benjamin Talbot Rogers has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member of staff Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Member commission to arrange for a World Conference of Christian Churches, and deputation to Europe, Egypt, and Palestine. Member Provincial Synods of Mid-West, 1916-1919, of Washington, 1926-1928, of New York and New Jersey, since 1930.

Connections

Married Nellie Lum Mead, 1889.

Father:

Benjamin Talbot Rogers

Mother:

Sarah Louise (Johnson) Rogers

Spouse:

Nellie Lum Mead