The eldest of five children born to Henry and Susan Antoinette (Hersey) Rogers, Jr., her father was co-owner of the Boston Journal newspaper.
Both her parents died when Josephine was in her teens, her father very suddenly in 1855 and her mother of Tuberculosis in 1857. Josephine and her three sisters, Addie, Mary, and Susan, would be left in very comfortable financial circumstances as, according to the 1860 Census, each of the four siblings had an individual estate worth $9,000. At a time when skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, and machinists were earning around $625 a year, their estates, needless to say, placed the sisters in an entirely different socio-economic sphere. In that year, too, Josephine, then 18, was listed as head of household which included their maternal grandmother Susan Hersey, age 65, Elizabeth Swift, their 40-year-old housekeeper, and Kate Kelly, a 30-year-old Irish domestic servant. Sadly, though, her sister Mary, 16, died of Tuberculosis in 1862, heaping further sorrow upon Josephine's already sorrowful heart.
Josephine would receive the same inheritance from her mother as her younger sister Mary, Tuberculin bacilli. She would be dead at 22.
Both her parents died when Josephine was in her teens, her father very suddenly in 1855 and her mother of Tuberculosis in 1857. Josephine and her three sisters, Addie, Mary, and Susan, would be left in very comfortable financial circumstances as, according to the 1860 Census, each of the four siblings had an individual estate worth $9,000. At a time when skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, and machinists were earning around $625 a year, their estates, needless to say, placed the sisters in an entirely different socio-economic sphere. In that year, too, Josephine, then 18, was listed as head of household which included their maternal grandmother Susan Hersey, age 65, Elizabeth Swift, their 40-year-old housekeeper, and Kate Kelly, a 30-year-old Irish domestic servant. Sadly, though, her sister Mary, 16, died of Tuberculosis in 1862, heaping further sorrow upon Josephine's already sorrowful heart.
Josephine would receive the same inheritance from her mother as her younger sister Mary, Tuberculin bacilli. She would be dead at 22.
The eldest of five children born to Henry and Susan Antoinette (Hersey) Rogers, Jr., her father was co-owner of the Boston Journal newspaper.
Both her parents died when Josephine was in her teens, her father very suddenly in 1855 and her mother of Tuberculosis in 1857. Josephine and her three sisters, Addie, Mary, and Susan, would be left in very comfortable financial circumstances as, according to the 1860 Census, each of the four siblings had an individual estate worth $9,000. At a time when skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, and machinists were earning around $625 a year, their estates, needless to say, placed the sisters in an entirely different socio-economic sphere. In that year, too, Josephine, then 18, was listed as head of household which included their maternal grandmother Susan Hersey, age 65, Elizabeth Swift, their 40-year-old housekeeper, and Kate Kelly, a 30-year-old Irish domestic servant. Sadly, though, her sister Mary, 16, died of Tuberculosis in 1862, heaping further sorrow upon Josephine's already sorrowful heart.
Josephine would receive the same inheritance from her mother as her younger sister Mary, Tuberculin bacilli. She would be dead at 22.
Both her parents died when Josephine was in her teens, her father very suddenly in 1855 and her mother of Tuberculosis in 1857. Josephine and her three sisters, Addie, Mary, and Susan, would be left in very comfortable financial circumstances as, according to the 1860 Census, each of the four siblings had an individual estate worth $9,000. At a time when skilled carpenters, blacksmiths, and machinists were earning around $625 a year, their estates, needless to say, placed the sisters in an entirely different socio-economic sphere. In that year, too, Josephine, then 18, was listed as head of household which included their maternal grandmother Susan Hersey, age 65, Elizabeth Swift, their 40-year-old housekeeper, and Kate Kelly, a 30-year-old Irish domestic servant. Sadly, though, her sister Mary, 16, died of Tuberculosis in 1862, heaping further sorrow upon Josephine's already sorrowful heart.
Josephine would receive the same inheritance from her mother as her younger sister Mary, Tuberculin bacilli. She would be dead at 22.
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