Moses Rodgers

Moses Logan Rodgers
Born1835 (?)
Missouri, U.S.
DiedOctober 22, 1900(1900-10-22) (aged 64–65)
Stockton, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Mining engineer, Metallurgist

Moses Logan Rodgers (c. 1835–October 22, 1900)[1] was an African American pioneer of California, arriving in 1849, during the California Gold Rush.

Biography

Five main shafts and over 10,000 feet of underground workings brought the gold/silver ore to the surface where it was handsorted and then sent by wagon to the mine's concentration mill. A Merced newspaper said of Rodgers that "there is no better mining man in the State."[2]

Legacy

Moses Rodgers House
Moses Rodgers House (1898)
  • The Moses Rodgers House which Rodgers built in 1898 at 921 South San Joaquin Street, Stockton, California is a historical landmark which is registered at The National Register of Historic Places.[3] He built it for his wife Sarah and their five daughters, to all of whom he gave the very best education California afforded. One daughter Vivian Rodgers graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with the class of 1909 majoring in Science and Letters.[4]
  • Moses Rodgers Virtual Academy, 302 W. Weber Avenue, Stockton,[5]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Fractured history sparks mystery about Rodgers
  2. ^ Richard Dillon, ed., Mother Lode Memoir, Journal of the West, vol. 3 (1964): 358; Delilah Leontium Beasley, The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), p. 114; journal of the Washington Mining Company, p. 205, Bancroft Library
  3. ^ The National Register of Historic Places
  4. ^ Delilah Leontium Beasley, The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), pp. 113-115Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Moses Rogers Virtual Academy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-27. Retrieved 2007-09-04.

References

  • Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California, Yale University Press (1995) - ISBN 0-300-06545-0
  • Savage, W. Sherman. The Negro in the Westward Movement, The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 25, No. 4 (October 1940), pp. 531–539