DR. JOHN G. ROGERS HOME & OFFICE
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Dr. John George Rogers was the first president of the Clermont County Anti-Slavery Society and a financial supporter of James G. Birney, publisher of The Philanthropist newspaper. A staunch abolitionist, Rogers along with Caleb Walker and the brothers Francis and Thomas Donaldson were the nucleus of a group called the Chieftains of Liberty, a vigilance committee set up to protect Birney’s press from destruction by pro-slavery mobs from Kentucky and Cincinnati.
Dr. Rogers practiced medicine for over 60 years and is most noted for the delivery of Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822 in nearby Pt. Pleasant. The child became better known as Ulysses S. Grant, victorious general of the Union Armies in the American Civil War and 18th President of the United States. Rogers died in 1882 thus he was able to see the child that he delivered win the war that liberated 4 million enslaved African Americans, the goal that Rogers dedicated most of his life to accomplish.
Dr. Rogers practiced medicine for over 60 years and is most noted for the delivery of Hiram Ulysses Grant on April 27, 1822 in nearby Pt. Pleasant. The child became better known as Ulysses S. Grant, victorious general of the Union Armies in the American Civil War and 18th President of the United States. Rogers died in 1882 thus he was able to see the child that he delivered win the war that liberated 4 million enslaved African Americans, the goal that Rogers dedicated most of his life to accomplish.