13 Facts About Earl Rogers

Earl Rogers was an American trial lawyer and professor.

Earl Rogers was posthumously inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame.

Earl Rogers was born in Perry, New York on November 18,1869, the son of Methodist minister Lowell L Rogers and Ada Rogers.

The Reverend Earl Rogers moved the Earl Rogers family to California in 1874.

Earl Rogers attended Ashland Academy in Ashland, Oregon and St Helena Academy in St Helena, California.

Earl Rogers studied at Syracuse University, but left to return to California after his father went bankrupt.

Earl Rogers had wanted to be a surgeon; by his late teens Earl Rogers was married and working as a Los Angeles newspaper reporter.

Earl Rogers was admitted to the bar in 1897, and began to practice in Los Angeles.

Earl Rogers's expertise was so complete that he became a professor of medical jurisprudence and insanity in the College of Physicians and Surgeons as well as a professor at the University of Southern California Law School.

Earl Rogers was respected for his legal skill, with a good memory for detail, but did research in secret, letting colleagues believe he had known his legal references all along.

Earl Rogers drank heavily, sobering up in Turkish baths in order to get back to the courtroom for his next case.

Earl Rogers did win his last trial, keeping himself from being committed to an insane asylum.

Earl Rogers died at age 52 in a Los Angeles rooming house on February 22,1922; The New York Times obituary was 35 words.