Ruschenberger.] ^'^^ [Oct. 6, 



the vocations associated with science. Possibly, however, observa- 

 tion may have satisfied him that toiling on any purely scientific 

 path does not always lead to sufficient compensation, reckoned 

 either in fortune or in fame. Whatever reason may have deter- 

 mined his course, he abandoned science as a career, but adhered to 

 it as a proper diversion and amusement for leisure hours.* 



In December, 1859, The Western Saving Fund Society of Phila- 

 delphia appointed him a clerk in the institution. There his habit- 

 ual exactness, devotion to duty, pleasant demeanor, and manifest 

 integrity in every sense won for him unreserved confidence and 

 esteem, and secured his advancement step by step in the institution. 

 In July, 1862, he was promoted to be Secretary and assistant of the 

 President. 



He married, Nov. 12, 1862, a daughter of Mr. William Wynne 

 VVister, of Germantovvn, and in December of that year was ap- 

 pointed Treasurer of the Saving Fund. He was chosen Vice-Pres- 

 ident of it in February, 1878, and elected one of the Board of 

 Managers of the Society in October, 1882. 



To obtain temporary relaxation from official duty after almost 

 continuous attention to it during thirty-one years, and also for the 

 benefit of his health, which was in some degree impaired, he went 

 to Europe in June, 1890 ; and, having visited the British Islands, Bel- 

 gium, France, Germany and Switzerland, returned and resumed 

 his official work, after an absence of about three months. 



His educational training and impressions, received while in view 

 of near relatives engaged in scientific work, possibly imparted the 

 taste which led him to seek temporary diversion from cares inci- 

 dent to his vocational occupation in certain societies, devoted to 

 the increase and diffusion of knowledge, as well as to the promo- 

 tion of general interest in intellectual pursuits. He was interested 

 in several such associations. 



Mr, Rogers became a member of the Union League, May 13, 

 1863, and resigned from it Nov. 13, 1866. 



He was a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia from September, 1870, and was elected one of the Board 

 of Trustees of the Building Fund of the Academy, and Secretary 

 of the Board in January, 1893. 



* The writer of this notice learned since " reading" it, tiiat Mr. Rogers, about three 

 months before bis death, told a friend that the reason why he abaudoued science lor 

 liuaiice was his inability to obtain any scientitic appointment. 



