Anne (Coleman) Rogers (1858-1934)
Mrs. Anne Caroline (Coleman) Rogers
She was just seven years old when she and her brother, Robert, inherited a controlling interest in one of the richest iron-producing businesses in America, established in 1798 by their great-grandfather (Robert Coleman) at Cornwall, Pennsylvania. In 1889, at their financial peak, Anne and her brother were worth a combined $30-million and were said to have made $1,000 a day purely on interest alone. But, just four years two lawsuits and the Financial Panic of 1893 all but ruined them.
