ROGERS, Ebenezer Platt, clergyman, born in New York city, 18 December, 1817; died in Montclair, New Jersey, 23 October, 1881. He was graduated at Yale in 1837, and, after spending a year at Princeton theological seminary, finished his studies in Hartford, Connecticut In June, 1840, he was licensed to preach in Litchfield county, Connecticut, and he was ordained in November. He held Congregational pastorates in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, in 1840-'3, in Northampton in 1843-'6, and had charge of Presbyterian churches in Augusta, Georgia, till 1854, and Philadelphia till 1856. He then became pastor of the 1st Reformed Dutch church of Albany, and in 1862 accepted the charge of the South Reformed church in New York city, where he continued until a few months before his death. He received the degree of D. D. from Oglethorpe college in 1853. Besides various minor publications, he was the author of "Earnest Words to Young Men in a Series of Discourses" (Charleston, South Carolina, 1837), and "Historical Discourse on the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Albany" (New York, 1858).