William Evans Rogers (April 11, 1846 – March 10, 1913) was an American businessman and railroad executive who married into the Fish family.
[1] Rogers, a corporal in the University Light Artillery, left Penn at the close his sophomore year to enter the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War.
[1] After retiring from the Army, Rogers moved to Detroit, Michigan where he entered the lumber business and helped organize Presque Isle County.
[1] In 1883, he was appointed him to the New York State Board of Railroad Commissioners by then Governor, later U.S. President, Grover Cleveland, serving for nine years total of which five were spent as chairman.
Together, they were the parents of six children,[9] with one son and three daughters surviving, including:[5] In 1892, Roger's wife and several members of their extended families, were included in Ward McAllister's "Four Hundred", purported to be an index of New York's best families, published in The New York Times.