Rogers, David S.

Born deaf to deaf parents in Sumter Co., SC. Went to the South Carolina School for the deaf, but his education was interrupted by the devastation of the Civil War, he going to work in his father's shoe shop. Learning of Gallaudet College, he applied and was accepted in 1868, graduating in 1873. The same year, he was appointed a teacher in the Iowa School for the deaf until the school was destroyed by fire in 1877. Returning to farming in SC for a couple of years, he then became a teacher in the South Carolina School for 9 years, then taught in the Kansas School for the deaf from 1888 on.