A. B. Rogers

Albert Bowman Rogers ( * May 29, 1829 in Orleans, Massachusetts, USA, † May 4, 1889 in Waterville, Minnesota ), commonly known as AB Rogers, was an American surveyor. He discovered named after him Rogers Pass in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

He began his studies first at Brown University, but after a year at Yale University, where he received his degree in Engineering. Rogers served in the cavalry of the United States; during the uprising of the Lakota in 1862, he was promoted to Major. His first work as a surveyor, he led the American prairie out for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.

In April 1881 Rogers was commissioned by the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR), for the transcontinental railroad to exploiting dividend in construction to find a mountain pass in the largely unexplored Selkirk Mountains. They promised him a check for $ 5,000, also the passport should be named after him. The engineer Walter Moberly had previously discovered a little further to the west to Eagle Pass. The assumptions of Moberly trusting Rogers began his expedition to the point where lies the city Revelstoke today.

Rogers and his expedition companions followed from the west to the Illecillewaet River. Because they ran out of food, they returned shortly before the pass. The second expedition in 1882 resulted from the east through the valley of the Beaver River. Rogers reached a point from where he could see the place where he had had to turn back in the previous year. Now he was sure to have found a suitable transition for the railroad, which was already at this time in an advanced stage of construction. The CPR held on to the promise, baptized the transition Rogers Pass and handed over the check. Rogers refused at first but, cash the check, this one framed instead and said he had not done so for money, but for glory. Finally was able to persuade him to redemption CPR manager William Cornelius Van Horne, as he put it an engraved clock.

His career as a surveyor came to an abrupt end when he was working in the vicinity of Coeur d' Alene (Idaho ) for the Great Northern Railway. He fell from his horse and injured himself badly while. On May 4, 1889, he died of his injuries; However, some sources give stomach cancer as a cause of death.