Name Prefix: Commodore
1 NOTE Opened Japenese ports to world trade. Hesailed the first U. S.Navy ships into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853. He arrangeda treatywith Japan in 1854, protecting American sailors and property inJapanesewaters.

1. 2. Sarah C. PERRY   b. 8 Jan 1818, New York,New York; d. 1905.

1. 3. John Augustus ROGERS   b. 1848, Havre de Grace,Maryland; d. 2 Mar 1933, Havre de Grace,Maryland.

Name Prefix: Adm.
1 NOTE The father of Commander John Rodgers, USN, hewas born in 1848at Harve de Grace, Maryland, a little town on the mouth of theSusquehanna River

1. 4. John Augustus ROGERS   b. 15 Jan 1881, Washington,District of Columbia; d. 27 Aug 1926.
2. 5. Alexander ROGERS   b. 1883, Washington,District of Columbia; d. 1910, Alaska.

Name Prefix: Commander
1 NOTE He was a pioneer in Naval Aviation and eventually became Chiefof the Navy Aeronautical Bureau, a position he held at thetimeof death in a plane crash in the Delaware River near thePhiladelphia NavyYard. Commander Rodgers was the hero of anunsuccessful flight from San Francisco to Hawaii in 1925. Hisseaplane came down in mid-ocean and he and his crew were rescuedafter keeping the plane afloat for more than 9 days.
He graduatedfrom the United States Naval Academy in 1903 andwas assigned from sea to air duty in 1911, when he attended theflying school operated by the Wright Brothers.He was the secondNaval Officer is history to qualify as a Naval Aviator. Heestablished the Naval Air Station at San Diego, California.
During World War I, he commanded Submarine Division 1 of theAtlantic Fleet.
From 1798 until his death on August 26, 1926, there had beenmembers of his family with the name "JohnRodgers" activelyserving with the United States Navy.