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Rogers, Oswald A., b. 1888
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Oswald Anderson Rogers was born 20 July 1888 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, the son of Rev. Anderson Rogers and Annie (Flemming) Rogers. He was educated in New Glasgow, NS and at St Andrew's College, Aurora, Ontario. As a young man he went to New York and appeared on the stage there and in stock theatre touring American cities. Retiring from the stage, he studied civil engineering in New York and later practised in Winnipeg and Halifax. In Halifax at the time of the Explosion of 1917, he joined the Relief Commission staff and was associated with that work for over two years. He joined the staff of Sun Life in 1925 and retired in 1932. Rogers married Anne B. Wilkins of Antigonish, with whom he had one daughter, Yvonne.