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WILLIAM GIBSON ROGERS


William Gibson Rogers was born in Greenfield, Ohio, on February 14, 1864, the son of Thomas Dixon and Jane Elizabeth (Beatty) Rogers. He was the great grandson of William Rogers, one of the first settlers west of the Ohio River in 1790.

He was educated at district school and Salem Academy and received his medical degree from Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1891.

Following his graduation, Dr. Rogers began his practice in Washington, Ohio. In 1893 he moved to Greenfield, Ohio, where he remained for the next six years.

On September 18, 1889, Dr. Rogers married Miss Janet Smalley in Greenfield.

From 1899 to 1900 Dr. Rogers went to London where he took a special course in the Royal Ophthalmic and Central London (ear, nose and throat). At the conclusion of his studies, he came to Honolulu in November, 1900, and opened an office, specializing in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.

In 1904 Dr. Rogers took a postgraduate course in the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in New York. This was followed by additional training in his specialty at the Post Graduate Hospital, New York, in Vienna in 1909-1910, and at Chicago Polyclinic Hospital in 1916.

During 1917-1918 Dr. Rogers served as eye, ear, nose and throat consultant for the selective service Medical Advisory Board.

The doctor married Maude Burgess in 1925.

Dr. Rogers died on September 28, 1936, in Honolulu at the age of 72.

He was a member of the Medical Society of Hawaii, serving as president in 1910-1911, and belonged to the University Club and to the Oahu Country Club.

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