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Arthur Rogers was born in London England in 1870, but grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, with his father and mother and several brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, his family was struck by a Yellow Fever epidemic, and his father and a few siblings died. The town they lived in was quarantined, but his mother and two or three young children were able to sneak across the lines with a wagon and two old horses. They were headed to Watseka, Illinois, where Dr. Roger's Grandmother lived. During the first half of their journey, the mother developed yellow fever and died, leaving the three children stranded. Fortunately, Dr. Rogers remembered the name of the town where his grandmother lived and the siblings found rides with kind farmers. Dr. Rogers lived in Watseka until high school age. He then went to Chicago and lived with a relative, selling papers on the streets to help out with his board bill. Later, he entered Rush Medical School, where he specialized in psychiatry, and graduated in 1896. In August, 1937, Doctor Rogers suddenly died of a heart attack after an afternoon of strenuous work in his garden. Dr. Rogers willed the majority of his estate (except for three annuities to two nieces and a nephew) to be used for the operation of the sanitarium and an endowment fund for onsite psychiatric research. Dr. Rogers and his wife are buried in the Oconomowoc Lac Labelle Cemetery in a beautiful free standing crypt. |
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