Graduated from Yale college, A.B., 1876; lectured on geological subjects and taught until 1878; studies at the Harvard Divinity school, 1878-79; at the University of Leipzig, 1879-80, and was graduated from Union Theological seminary, New York City, in 1884. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry May 20, 1884; was pastor at New Hamburg, NY 1884-85 and at New Haven, CT 1885-89.
He continued his studies in the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, 1889-93; was pastor at Odgensburg, NY, 1893-94; president of the National Correspondence school, Buffalo, NY, 1894-95, and of Benzonia college, Mich., from 1895 until September 1897, when he resigned to lecture on "The Evidence of Christianity from a Scientific Basis" and in 1901 was made president of the Interstate college, Humphreys, MO. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Benzonia college for work done in the university of Edinburgh, 1896, and is the author of: Adolphus, a religious drama (1897) and The Gospel of Science(1900).
Son of Robert and Ann (Waddell) Rodger.
Married 1) Mary Anne Waddell daughter of Peter and Sarah (Foster) Waddell of Northumberland, England on Oct. 22, 1885 in Oberlin, Ohio. Together they were the parents of Sarah Churchill Rodger [-1888], Theodora Ann (Rodger) Stodgill, Hewitt Douglass Rodger, and Elizabeth Constance Rodger. Mary Anne died in 1906.
Married 2) Clara Louise Horner on May 22, 1920.
He continued his studies in the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, 1889-93; was pastor at Odgensburg, NY, 1893-94; president of the National Correspondence school, Buffalo, NY, 1894-95, and of Benzonia college, Mich., from 1895 until September 1897, when he resigned to lecture on "The Evidence of Christianity from a Scientific Basis" and in 1901 was made president of the Interstate college, Humphreys, MO. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Benzonia college for work done in the university of Edinburgh, 1896, and is the author of: Adolphus, a religious drama (1897) and The Gospel of Science(1900).
Son of Robert and Ann (Waddell) Rodger.
Married 1) Mary Anne Waddell daughter of Peter and Sarah (Foster) Waddell of Northumberland, England on Oct. 22, 1885 in Oberlin, Ohio. Together they were the parents of Sarah Churchill Rodger [-1888], Theodora Ann (Rodger) Stodgill, Hewitt Douglass Rodger, and Elizabeth Constance Rodger. Mary Anne died in 1906.
Married 2) Clara Louise Horner on May 22, 1920.
Graduated from Yale college, A.B., 1876; lectured on geological subjects and taught until 1878; studies at the Harvard Divinity school, 1878-79; at the University of Leipzig, 1879-80, and was graduated from Union Theological seminary, New York City, in 1884. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry May 20, 1884; was pastor at New Hamburg, NY 1884-85 and at New Haven, CT 1885-89.
He continued his studies in the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, 1889-93; was pastor at Odgensburg, NY, 1893-94; president of the National Correspondence school, Buffalo, NY, 1894-95, and of Benzonia college, Mich., from 1895 until September 1897, when he resigned to lecture on "The Evidence of Christianity from a Scientific Basis" and in 1901 was made president of the Interstate college, Humphreys, MO. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Benzonia college for work done in the university of Edinburgh, 1896, and is the author of: Adolphus, a religious drama (1897) and The Gospel of Science(1900).
Son of Robert and Ann (Waddell) Rodger.
Married 1) Mary Anne Waddell daughter of Peter and Sarah (Foster) Waddell of Northumberland, England on Oct. 22, 1885 in Oberlin, Ohio. Together they were the parents of Sarah Churchill Rodger [-1888], Theodora Ann (Rodger) Stodgill, Hewitt Douglass Rodger, and Elizabeth Constance Rodger. Mary Anne died in 1906.
Married 2) Clara Louise Horner on May 22, 1920.
He continued his studies in the Universities of Edinburgh and Berlin, 1889-93; was pastor at Odgensburg, NY, 1893-94; president of the National Correspondence school, Buffalo, NY, 1894-95, and of Benzonia college, Mich., from 1895 until September 1897, when he resigned to lecture on "The Evidence of Christianity from a Scientific Basis" and in 1901 was made president of the Interstate college, Humphreys, MO. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Benzonia college for work done in the university of Edinburgh, 1896, and is the author of: Adolphus, a religious drama (1897) and The Gospel of Science(1900).
Son of Robert and Ann (Waddell) Rodger.
Married 1) Mary Anne Waddell daughter of Peter and Sarah (Foster) Waddell of Northumberland, England on Oct. 22, 1885 in Oberlin, Ohio. Together they were the parents of Sarah Churchill Rodger [-1888], Theodora Ann (Rodger) Stodgill, Hewitt Douglass Rodger, and Elizabeth Constance Rodger. Mary Anne died in 1906.
Married 2) Clara Louise Horner on May 22, 1920.
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Information from 1936-37 Yale Graduate Obituaries; The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
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