Henry Huttleston Rogers
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican businessman (1840-1909)
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Henry Huttleston Rogers was an American industrialist and financier. He made his fortune in the oil refining business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil. He also played a major role in numerous corporations and business enterprises in the gas industry, copper, and railroads. He became a close friend of Mark Twain.
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H. H. Rogers
The threat of Congressional rate regulation frightens monopolists like John D Rockefeller (on throne) and Rogers (lower left), Cartoon by J. S. Pughe in Puck 1905.
Mark Twain and Henry Huttleston Rogers in 1908
Handbill from 1909 tour of southern Virginia and West Virginia
A granite memorial to Rogers on the Fairhaven High School lawnFounders from United States 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Founders
Type
Founder
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1840 to 1909 · aged 69
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