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Robert W. (Robert Wells) Rogers

b. 1873

Best known for The United Seas, he wrote in a lofty, public-minded style that treated the Panama Canal as a symbol of connection and shared human effort.

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"The United Seas"

"The United Seas"

by Robert W. (Robert Wells) Rogers

About the author

Robert W. Rogers, identified in library records as Robert Wells Rogers, was an American author born in 1873. The clearest work tied to him online is The United Seas, published in 1915 by the Oroville Register Publishing Company.

That book is a short prose-poem centered on the opening of the Panama Canal. Its language and subject suggest a writer interested in big civic themes—travel, trade, geography, and the hope that new links between nations might bring people closer together.

Reliable biographical detail about his life is scarce in the sources I could confirm, so this profile stays close to what is documented: his full name, birth year, and the publication history and subject of his known work.