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ABC:LHS #080-2   Fairman Rogers...

...lived a life of elegant wealth but made himself useful as an expert in many aspects of science, especially civil engineering. He served briefly as captain of the Troop. He excelled as a coachman, especially when he took his magnificent black and red four-in-hand through Fairmount Park. Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins captured Rogers in a painting that is the first to accurately demonstrate motion in animals.