About Lebbeus H. Rogers
Lived 1847 – 1932 (aged 84–85). Lebbeus H. Rogers was an inventor.
Lebbeus Harding Rogers (1847–1932) was an American inventor and businessman from Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rogers was the founder of Mount Morris Bank in Harlem, New York. In 1870, Rogers founded the Rogers Manifold Carbon Paper Company in New York City, the first company in America, and possibly in the world, to produce carbon paper, even before the advent of typewriters.
A good friend of inventor Alexander Graham Bell, Rogers turned down an offer to purchase a tenth share of Bell's telephone patent, which would have ultimately made Rogers a very rich man.
Rogers died in his home in Portland, Oregon on December 16, 1932.
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American inventor
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Lebbeus H. Rogers was born in 1847.
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Lebbeus H. Rogers died in 1932.
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Lebbeus H. Rogers was an inventor.
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