User Tools

Site Tools


rogers_amos_frankford

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Next revision
Previous revision
rogers_amos_frankford [] – external edit 127.0.0.1rogers_amos_frankford [] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
Line 2: Line 2:
  (**or Ames**)(6 July 1855-3 Sept. 1922), physician and entrepreneur. (Dr A.F. Rogers) Born at Bradford, Ont., of U E Loyalist descent. He attended Bradford High School, but the report that he attended Upper Canada College seems to be incorrect. After obtaining his medical degree from McGill University, 1874, he studied medicine overseas. From 1876 he had a medical practice in Ottawa. He was president of the Ontario Medical Council, 1896. Dr Rogers became the manufacturer of a successful, widely used, and well-advertised laxative patent medicine called Fruit-a-Tives. He resigned from his medical practice in 1904 on formation of the Fruit-a-Tives Co., of which he remained president to the end of his life. At the time of the 1918 flu epidemic, an advertisement claimed that this medicine “Gives the Power to Resist” Spanish Influenza. (//Glengarry News// 25 Oct. 1918; this issue also carries obituaries of local victims of the flu)…  (**or Ames**)(6 July 1855-3 Sept. 1922), physician and entrepreneur. (Dr A.F. Rogers) Born at Bradford, Ont., of U E Loyalist descent. He attended Bradford High School, but the report that he attended Upper Canada College seems to be incorrect. After obtaining his medical degree from McGill University, 1874, he studied medicine overseas. From 1876 he had a medical practice in Ottawa. He was president of the Ontario Medical Council, 1896. Dr Rogers became the manufacturer of a successful, widely used, and well-advertised laxative patent medicine called Fruit-a-Tives. He resigned from his medical practice in 1904 on formation of the Fruit-a-Tives Co., of which he remained president to the end of his life. At the time of the 1918 flu epidemic, an advertisement claimed that this medicine “Gives the Power to Resist” Spanish Influenza. (//Glengarry News// 25 Oct. 1918; this issue also carries obituaries of local victims of the flu)…
  
-<tab>Dr Rogers was married May 1896 to Margaret or Mabel Falkner, the daughter of Dr Alexander Falkner of Lancaster, GC. If a story attributed to a Glengarry maid employed in the Rogers household is true, every so often Dr Rogers and his wife would pull down the blinds and seclude themselves in the kitchen of the house to cook up a new batch of the secret ingredient used in the patent medicine. For patent medicine manufacture, see also A. P. Gardiner.+<tab>Dr Rogers was married May 1896 to Margaret or Mabel Falkner, the daughter of Dr Alexander Falkner of Lancaster, GC. If a story attributed to a Glengarry maid employed in the Rogers household is true, every so often Dr Rogers and his wife would pull down the blinds and seclude themselves in the kitchen of the house to cook up a new batch of the secret ingredient used in the patent medicine. For patent medicine manufacture, see also [[gardiner_alfred_paul|A. P. Gardiner]].
  
  
rogers_amos_frankford.1626622228.txt.gz · Last modified: (external edit)

Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki