Rogers, Lebbeus Harding
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1847-1932) US businessman and author whose The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth) (1900), which may have been self-published, follows the juvenile kite-inventors and founders of the eponymous compact into adulthood, enormous wealth, the discovery of new Power Sources and the construction of transatlantic tunnels (see Under the Sea), while all the while an interplanetary spirit instructs the cast on the history of the solar system. [JC]
Lebbeus Harding Rogers
born Cincinnati, Ohio: 26 July 1847
died Portland, Oregon: 16 December 1932
works
- The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth) (New York: Kite Trust Publishing Company, 1900) [hb/]
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