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Excerpt from A Memoir of the Life and Character of James B. Rogers, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania
Soon after his arrival, the youthful emigrant was em ployed as an usher in the literary department of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania; but his inclinations directed him towards the medical profession, and having pursued his studies in the Office of Professor Barton, he graduated as Doctor of Medicine in 1802. The thesis which be pre sented was an experimental one on the chemical and medi cinal properties of the Liriodendron tulipifera. While yet a young practitioner of the healing art, he exhibited his devo~ tion to the science by giving in successive years a course of lectures upon the History of Medicine and Medical Philo Sophy; but subsequently more especially devoted himself to chemistry, upon which subject he gave, as we have rea son to believe, the first complete series of lectures to a general or popular audience ever given in this city, or pro bably in the country. These, according to the statement of one who recollects them, were well received, and highly successful. In 1819; he was appointed Professor of Natu ral Philosophy and Chemistry in William and Mary Col lege, at Williamsburg, Virginia, as the successor Of Pro fessor Hare, and there remained assiduously devoted to the cultivation and teaching Of those sciences until his death in 1828.
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