Larkin Seymour Rogers MD (1859 - 1920)

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Biography

He attended the University at Oxford MS for two years then took medical courses while studying medicine under Dr. B. F. Kittrell at Black Hawk. He graduated from the Medical Department of Tulane University on April 1 1885 and then practiced medicine for over 20 years beginning at West Mississippi. Dr. Rogers was elected to the legislature and served on the Committee of Appropriations, Banks and Banking, Benevolent Institutions, and was chairman of the Committee on Public Health and Quarantine. He introduced and carried through a bill for a State Charity Hospital at Jackson. In recognition of his efforts to get this institution, the legislature voted unanimously to name it the "L.S. Rogers Charity Hospital." He was elected Treas. of the State of Mississippi in 1919. On the day of his funeral both capitol buildings were closed all day out of respect for his memory. He was a Deacon in the Baptist church, 32nd degree Mason and Shriner. He wrote a highly interesting series of articles entitled "The Country Doctor."

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Biography extracted from Vaiden Heritage compiled by the Vaiden Garden Club and published in 1976 by the Messenger Press and from the Mississippi Official and Statistical Register 1920-1924 pp 43-44 by Dunbar Rowland.

• genealogical records of Sara Maxwell his granddaughter