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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1013

Rodgers, Alexander Robertson (1807-1885). A small lot of documents: 1) Baccalaureate from the College of New Jersey (today Princeton), folio, vellum, 1825. Signed by President Jacobus Cannahan and curators Samuel Miller (the theologian), Carolus Ewing, etc. Paper seal pendent on pink ribbon center; 2) Award from the Societas Cliosophica of the College of New Jersey, folio, vellum, nd. Large vignette, signed by "SamL. Southard" and Robert B. Patton (professor of languages at the school). Southard may be Samuel L. Southard, who served as US Secretary of the Navy, 10th Governor of NJ and US Senator from NJ; 3) Election as a member of the ASPCA, June 12, 1874. Folio, red seal bottom left, with ASPCA envelope addressed to Rodgers at 30 Pine Street ; and 4) Envelope containing copies of the last will and testament of his father John R.R. Rodgers, his mother Hellen R. Rodgers, his grandfather Alexander Robertson; and Helen Rodgers Perkins. Generally Fine. [4]

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