# Moses Rodgers

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{{Short description|American mining engineer}}
{{Infobox person
| name        = Moses Logan Rodgers
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| birth_date  = 1835 (?)
| birth_place =  [Missouri](/source/Missouri), U.S.
| death_date  = {{death date and age|1900|10|22|1835}}
| death_place = [Stockton, California](/source/Stockton%2C_California), U.S.
| occupation  = [Mining engineer](/source/Mining_engineer), [Metallurgist](/source/Metallurgist)
}}

'''Moses Logan Rodgers''' (c. 1835–October 22, 1900)<ref>[http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/ENT/602090320/1002 Fractured history sparks mystery about Rodgers]</ref> was an [African American](/source/African_American) pioneer of [California](/source/California), arriving in 1849, during the [California Gold Rush](/source/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."<ref>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</ref>

==Legacy==
[[File:Moses Rodgers House - Stockton, CA.JPG|alt=Moses Rodgers House|thumb|[Moses Rodgers House](/source/Moses_Rodgers_House) (1898)]]
*The [Moses Rodgers House](/source/Moses_Rodgers_House) which Rodgers built in 1898 at 921 South San Joaquin Street, [Stockton, California](/source/Stockton%2C_California) is a historical landmark which is registered at The National Register of Historic Places.<ref>[http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ca/San+Joaquin/state.html The National Register of Historic Places]</ref> 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](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley), with the class of 1909 majoring in Science and Letters.<ref>Delilah Leontium Beasley, ''The Negro Trail-Blazers of California'' (1919), pp. 113-115{{PD-notice}}</ref>
*Moses Rodgers Virtual Academy, 302 W. Weber Avenue, Stockton,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stockton.k12.ca.us/rodgers/ |title=Moses Rogers Virtual Academy |access-date=2007-09-04 |archive-date=2007-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027173124/http://www.stockton.k12.ca.us/rodgers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Footnotes==
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==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.&nbsp;531–539

==External links==
*[http://www3.uop.edu/cop/jacobycenter/projects/Stockton%20Historical/agtp_e07.html The Glory of the Past: Historic Homes in Stockton]

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Category:1830s births
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Category:19th-century African-American people
Category:American mining engineers
Category:African-American history in the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:People of the California Gold Rush
Category:19th-century American engineers

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