About Elias Rogers
Lived 1850 – 1920 (aged 69–70). Elias Rogers was a businessperson.
Elias Rogers (June 23, 1850 – April 11, 1920) was a Canadian business magnate, banker, and politician. He was a major coal dealer in Canada and founder, with his brother Samuel, of the Elias Rogers Company in Toronto.
His great-grandfather was Timothy Rogers (1756–1834), a Canadian pioneer and Quaker leader who founded settlements in what became Newmarket and Pickering.
Biography Rogers was born in Whitchurch, near Newmarket, to a Quaker family. He began in the lumber business before switching to coal, purchasing the first coal mines in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania.
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Who was Elias Rogers?
19th century Canadian businessman
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Elias Rogers was born in 1850.
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Elias Rogers died in 1920.
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Elias Rogers was a businessperson.
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