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Robert Cameron Rogers

Literature

Centurion, 1898–1912

Born 7 January 1862 in Buffalo, New York

Died 20 April 1912 in Santa Barbara, California

Buried Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California

Proposed by Edward Cary and Carl Schurz

Elected 5 March 1898 at age thirty-six

Century Memorial

Robert Cameron Rogers was seen among us less frequently than those of us wished, to whom his charming personality was known. He edited a newspaper in Santa Barbara, California; but was more widely known as a poet and imaginative writer through The Rosary and other poetical writings.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1913 Century Association Yearbook