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HISTORY OF THE MICHIGAN FEMALE COLLEGE AND A SKETCH OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF MISS A. C. ROGERS BY MRS. ELIZA C. SMITH, 1883
About the year 1847 she came to Albion. Mich., to take a similar position, and from there went to Ypsilanti as Preceptress of the State Normal School. In each of these positions her zeal and earnestness made her influence deeply felt. Her personal interest and care for the individual welfare of those under her charge made the relation of teacher and pupil close and affectionate, and won not only respect, but life-long love and esteem.
From Ypsilanti Miss Rogers came to Lansing in 1855. The years she spent here were in many respects, satisfying but also constantly full of anxieties, cares, and hard struggles which seriously affected her health. Her fine physique should have indicated perfect health, and promised length of days
but her strength, especially her nervous strength long overtaxed, yielded to a sudden attack of congestion of the brain, and without regret or acknowledging pain she passed from this life of disappointments to that state of higher activities where doubtless are full compensations for the brave souls who have painfully toiled here, without seeing the fulfillment of their
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From the appreciative notice that appeared in the Lansing Republican at he time of her death, I quote the following as showing the affection with which she was regarded in her own home: "Her intimate friends well know low she has labored for the success of the Michigan Female College against many disadvantages. She has met financial difficulties, the opposition of ; hose opposed to the higher education of women, and the disadvantages of i location too distant from the center of the town for the accommodation of : hose who would otherwise have become pupils, with a devotion and constancy worthy of the cause which she made a life work. She was the acknowledged md leading champion of the higher education of women in Michigan. To her more than to any other, or perhaps all other women of the State is due : he present elevation of sentiment in regard to the higher education of women, and her work shall follow her through all coming years. "
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