Henry Huttleston Rogers (1840-1909) US industrialist. Rogers,a child of working-class parents,amassed a fortune after starting his own oil refining business. He joined John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust,and made many investments in copper,steel,natural gas,coal,and railroad industries. With partner William Nelson Page,he built the Virginian Railway from the coal fields of southern West Virginia to the harbour of Hampton Roads. It was considered a great engineering achievement and forms part of the current US rail network | |
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