Elizabeth Selden White Rogers was a civic reformer who worked to improve the New York public schools, and to win suffrage for women in the state of New York and the nation.
Elizabeth Selden Rogers, right, marches in a suffragette parade with Miss Brannan, left, ca. 1912.
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Henry Lewis Stimson was an American statesman, lawyer, and politician. Over his long career, he emerged as a leading figure in U.S. foreign policy by serving in both Republican and Democratic administ
Elizabeth Selden Rogers
…national action.” Rogers was born on July 23, 1868, in Astoria, Queens, New York. Her sister was Mabel Wellington White, wife of US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. She was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the…
Young Stimson with Mimi, the cat, portrait by Dora Wheeler Keith
Stimson as a young lawyer
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred William Bjornstad, organizer and director of the U.S. Army Staff College in France, and Lieutenant Colonel Henry L. Stimson who is about to leave the college, July 1918.