Helena Weekly Herald

FOR PUBLIC PRINTER.

Gen. Rogers, of Buffalo, Likely to Succeed S. P. Rounds.

The position of public printer is considered a very important one in the government, as he controls about 2,500 employees and expends over $2,000,000 a year in the work of printing and binding the various government publications. Mr. S. P. Rounds having resigned, his successor is said to be Gen. Rogers, of Buffalo.

GEN. WILLIAM FINDLAY ROGERS

William Findlay Rogers was born in Forkstownship, Easton, Pa., Jan. 1, 1820. His grandfather, Joseph Rogers, came to America from Ireland in 1786. His father, Thomas J. Rogers, was by trade a printer. He was an officer in the war of 1812. Gen. William F. Rogers imbibed his military spirit from both his father's and his mother's relatives. His first work was done on The Easton Whig, as printer's apprentice. In 1834 he went to Philadelphia and obtained work on The Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1846 he came to Buffalo and began "sticking type" on The Courier. This he left for work on The Republic, a paper then entirely independent of The Courier, but which was afterwards consolidated with its larger rival, and which has now suspended. Gen. Rogers established the first Sunday newspaper in Buffalo-The Weekly Republican. This paper, however, soon ceased publication. He then went back on The Courier, where he remained until the outbreak of the rebellion.
Shortly after his return from the war he was appointed city auditor. At the next election he was made city comptroller, and afterwards was elected mayor. In 1882 he was chosen to represent the district in congress, whither his father had been elected at the beginning of the century. He was appointed major general of the Fourth division N. G., S. N. Y., in January, 1879.