Julia Ellen Rogers
Born(1866-01-21)January 21, 1866
Minburn, Iowa, U.S.
DiedMay 20, 1958(1958-05-20) (aged 92)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
OccupationWriter, teacher
GenreNatural science
Relatives

Julia Ellen Rogers (January 21, 1866 – May 20, 1958) was an American author and educator in various fields of natural history and science.

Biography

Rogers was born in Minburn, Iowa, in 1866, the daughter of Daniel Farrand Rogers and Ruth Dodd Llewellyn.[1] Her paternal grandfather was the abolitionist Nathaniel Peabody Rogers.[2] Her younger sister Mary also become a writer and educator.[3] She attended Iowa State University and obtained a master's degree in botany at Cornell University. Before she moved to New Jersey, she taught high school in Iowa.[1]

After graduating Rogers relocated to Long Beach, California, where she lived for the rest of her life. She was a member of the Long Beach Board of Education for ten years and she was a member and national secretary of the Long Beach Park Commission. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi and Secretary of the Long Beach Ebell Club. Rogers was an Official of the Camp Fire Girls and a member of the Long Beach Shell Club.[4] She was also a member of the National Green Cross, Los Angeles Friday Morning Club, College Club, Cornell University Women's Club, Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Virginia Country Club.[1]

Rogers worked as a lecturer and wrote books on natural history. Her works were popular and some of her books were reprinted several times.[5] While her books were targeted for the general reader, some of her statements were criticised as being unscientific. One review said that in her book, Among Green Trees, she referred to trees as 'sleeping' at night or being 'drowsy' during a rainstorm.[6]

In 1911 she moved to Long Beach, California, where she lived at 355 Junipero Avenue until her death at age 92.[1][5]

Works

References

  1. ^ a b c d Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. pp. 78–79. Retrieved 8 August 2017.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ McGroarty, John Steven, ed. (1923). History of Los Angeles County. Vol. III. Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, Inc. p. 468.
  3. ^ St. Clair, Karen Penders (Fall 2019). "Inspirational Voices in Early Botanical Education" (PDF). Plant Science Bulletin. 65 (3): 161–171.
  4. ^ Minutes. Conchological Club of Southern California. 1945. p. 43.
  5. ^ a b Harvey, Joy Dorothy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, eds. (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. Vol. 2. p. 1120. ISBN 9780415920407.
  6. ^ Whitford, H. N. (1903). "Books on Trees". Botanical Gazette. 35 (1): 59–60. doi:10.1086/328317. JSTOR 2465333. S2CID 84653508.

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