20 Facts About Lou Rogers

Lou Rogers was a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, storyteller, public speaker, radio host, and political activist.

Lou Rogers's childhood was spent on a small farm, with vacations at the family's isolated camp at nearby Shin Pond, where pristine woodlands abutted the quiet lake.

The Lou Rogers children were educated at the Patten Academy that grandfather Dr Luther Lou Rogers helped found.

Brother Lore Lou Rogers became a well-known government bacteriologist and was awarded two honorary doctorates.

Around 1900 Lou Rogers decided on a career in art and enrolled at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Lou Rogers then enrolled in physical culture classes offered in Washington DC.

Lou Rogers soon had a new determination: she would become a cartoonist.

Ms Rogers was a staff artist at Judge, regularly contributing original artwork to the suffrage page called "The Modern Woman" alongside H G Peter, the illustrator who created the image of Wonder Woman.

Lou Rogers was passionate in her beliefs and prolific in her output, as her work began appearing in the New York Call, Judge, and the Woman's Journal, a propaganda newspaper for the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Lou Rogers was invited to join Heterodoxy, a private club for radical, freethinking professional women, that met twice a month, for lunch and serious discussions.

Lou Rogers formed a close friendship with Heterodoxy member Elizabeth C Watson, a Maryland woman active in prison and labor reform.

Lou Rogers began appearing in Times Square, street corners, fairs, and other locations dressed in her artist's smock, as she drew oversized cartoons in the tradition of chalk talks.

Lou Rogers was considered a soapbox orator for her suffrage talks, and her activities were documented in newspapers across the region.

Lou Rogers published cartoons in the socialist paper, The New York Call as early as 1911, and by 1919 was a regular contributor to the Call with a featured cartoon series on Woman's Sphere.

The magazine was presenting a series called "These Modern Women," and Lou Rogers had been selected by managing editor Freda Kirchwey as a successful woman typifying new feminist possibilities.

The success of the Gimmicks persuaded Lou Rogers to try her hand at children's books.

Lou Rogers's program was called "Animal News Club," and aired over NBC radio.

Lou Rogers's work was included in a collection of women's humor, Laughing Their Way: Women's Humor in America.

In 1925 Lou Rogers purchased an old farm in New Milford, CT.

Lou Rogers's condition degenerated rapidly, and she died at the age of 72.