Julia Ellen Rogers

Julia Ellen Rogers (January 21, 1866 – May 20, 1958) was an American author and educator in various fields of natural history and science.

Julia Ellen Rogers
Born(1866-01-21)January 21, 1866
Minburn, Iowa, US
DiedMay 20, 1958(1958-05-20) (aged 92)
Long Beach, California
OccupationWriter, teacher
GenreNatural science

Biography

Rogers was born in Minburn, Iowa in 1866, the daughter of Daniel Farrand Rogers and Ruth Dodd Llewellyn.[1] Her paternal grandfather was the abolitionist Nathaniel Peabody Rogers.[2] Her younger sister Mary also become a writer and educator.[3] She attended Iowa State University and obtained a M.A. from Cornell University where she obtained a master's degree in botany. Before she moved to New Jersey, she taught high school in Iowa.[1]

After graduating she 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. She was an Official of the Camp Fire Girls and a member of the Long Beach Shell Club.[4] 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.[1]

Rogers worked as a lecturer and wrote books on natural history. Her works were popular and some of her books were reprinted several times.[5] 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.[6]

In 1911 she moved to Long Beach, California, where she lived at 355 Junipero Avenue until her death at age 92.[5][1]

Works
  • 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

References
  1. Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. pp. 78–79. Retrieved 8 August 2017. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. McGroarty, John Steven, ed. (1923). History of Los Angeles County. III. Chicago and New York: The American Historical Society, Inc. p. 468.
  3. St. Clair, Karen Penders (Fall 2019). "Inspirational Voices in Early Botanical Education" (PDF). Plant Science Bulletin. 65 (3): 161–171.
  4. Minutes. Conchological Club of Southern California. 1945. p. 43.
  5. Harvey, Joy Dorothy; Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey, eds. (2000). The biographical dictionary of women in science: pioneering lives from ancient times to the mid-20th century. 2. p. 1120. ISBN 9780415920407.
  6. Whitford, H. N. (1903). "Books on Trees". Botanical Gazette. 35 (1): 59–60. doi:10.1086/328317. JSTOR 2465333.
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