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= Julia_Ellen_Rogers =
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Introduction
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Julia Ellen Rogers (January 21, 1866 - May 20, 1958) was an American
author and educator in various fields of natural history and science.
Biography
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Rogers was born in Minburn, Iowa, in 1866, the daughter of Daniel
Farrand Rogers and Ruth Dodd Llewellyn. Her paternal grandfather was
the abolitionist Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Her younger sister Mary
also become a writer and educator. She attended Iowa State University
and obtained a master's degree in botany at Cornell University. Before
she moved to New Jersey, she taught high school in Iowa.
After graduating Rogers relocated to Long Beach, California, where she
lived for the rest of her life. She was a member of the Long Beach
Board of Education for ten years and she was a member and national
secretary of the Long Beach Park Commission. She was a member of Pi
Beta Phi and Secretary of the Long Beach Ebell Club. Rogers was an
Official of the Camp Fire Girls and a member of the Long Beach Shell
Club. She was also a member of the National Green Cross, Los Angeles
Friday Morning Club, College Club, Cornell University Women's Club,
Phi Beta Kappa Society, and the Virginia Country Club.
Rogers worked as a lecturer and wrote books on natural history. Her
works were popular and some of her books were reprinted several times.
While her books were targeted for the general reader, some of her
statements were criticised as being unscientific. One review said that
in her book, 'Among Green Trees', she referred to trees as 'sleeping'
at night or being 'drowsy' during a rainstorm.
In 1911 she moved to Long Beach, California, where she lived at 355
Junipero Avenue until her death at age 92.
Works
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* 'Among Green Trees: A Guide to Pleasant and Profitable Acquaintance
with Familiar Trees' (1902)
* 'The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of Trees of North
America and to Their Uses and Cultivation' (1905)
* 'The Shell Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Families of
Living Mollusks, and an Aid to the Identification of Shells Native and
Foreign' (1908)
* 'Trees Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of
the Year' (1909)
* 'Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know' (1910)
* 'Wild Animals Every Child Should Know: Life Stories and Other True
Stories of the Wild Cousins of Domestic Animals and Other Warm-Blooded
Quadrepeds' (1911)
* 'The Book of Useful Plants' (1913)
* 'Useful Plants Every Child Should Know'
* 'Tree Guide - Trees East of the Rockies' (1916)
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