He had recently spent three years studying at Rutgers University when he went sailing on the Mississippi, downriver from Davenport, Iowa. His best friend Ferdinand V. Rogers, age twenty one, also lost his life in the accident, the result of a gale wind that overturned their sail-boat at night.
He had recently spent three years studying at Rutgers University when he went sailing on the Mississippi, downriver from Davenport, Iowa. His best friend Ferdinand V. Rogers, age twenty one, also lost his life in the accident, the result of a gale wind that overturned their sail-boat at night.
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July 16, 2011. A Find A Grave Volunteer could not locate a grave marker and it was confirmed by the cemetery sexton that no grave marker existed.
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