Walter G. Rogers

Description:

This collection contains one scrapbook of photographs and correspondence as well as several loose photographs of Walter G. Rogers and his family. The ten loose photographs are unidentified and contain vacation photos, outdoor shots, and individual shots of children and adults. These photographs have not been digitized. The scrapbook contains photos of numerous indiviuals including members of several families, Central Elementary School and Townsend Street School class photos, Lambda Rho Tau group at Lansing High School, and the Lansing High School softball team of 1913. The correspondence consists of wedding invitations, birth announcments, post cards, and other notes and letters. Walter G. Rogers was a Major and quartermaster general and his son Wadsworth Rogers was a lieutenant in the army. Walter G. Rogers died on September 9, 1965, having been a Lansing resident for 47 years before moving to Detroit and then West Palm Beach, Florida. He was active in many Lansing organizations and councils including Knights Templar, Spanish American War Veterans, VFW, and American Legion, and was Lansing postmaster from 1920 to 1932, among other involvements.

Data Provider:

Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives

Collection:

Walter G. Rogers

Subject Topic:

Lansing (Mich.), Newspaper clippings, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Families, and Schools

Language:

English

Rights:

Copyright Not Evaluated

URL:

http://cadl.pastperfectonline.com/archive/5DBE41F7-ED32-4B17-B4EE-865654713493