Lore [pronounced "Lo'-re," rhymes with "story"] Rogers was born in the town of Patten, Maine.
His father, Col.
Luther B. Rogers, was a veteran of the Civil War, and became a partner in a prominent lumbering operation called Ayer and Rogers.
Lore's mother, Mary Elizabeth Barker Rogers, bore seven children, and it is said she might have become a "remarkable journalist" had she been given the chance.
In an unpublished autobiography, she described the children
[as having] in common one predominating trait and that was a love of the woods and all wild things.
 Lore, though he loved to fish, called for a camera rather than a gun, and I believe a camera and a fishhook have always remained his only weapons.
He early developed a liking for research which finally became his speciality.

Lore, like his other siblings including Lou Rogers, attended the Patten Academy, which graduated a number of highly successful individuals.
He entered the University of Maine, joined its first football team, and pledged Kappa Sigma.
  He earned a B. S. in agriculture in 1896, especially appreciating the one course that was offered in the new science of bacteriology.
 Years later the campus dairy industry building would be named in his honor.

Rogers returned home to spend a season as clerk and assistant in his father's lumbering operations.
He also used his photography skills to capture the experience and perils of woodsmen's lives.
 He was then inspired to pursue bacteriology, selecting the University of Wisconsin, which had opened the first American school of dairy science seven years earlier.
He was privileged to study under Harry Luman Russell,  a noted bacteriologist who earned an early PhD in that field at Johns Hopkins University.
Lore Rogers remained at Wisconsin for the year 1897-1898, during which time, in addition to his studies, he helped found the Beta-Epsilon chapter of Kappa Sigma.
Lore [pronounced "Lo'-re," rhymes with "story"] Rogers was born in the town of Patten, Maine. His father, Col. Luther B. Rogers, was a veteran of the Civil War, and became a partner in a prominent lumbering operation called Ayer and Rogers. Lore's mother, Mary Elizabeth Barker Rogers, bore seven children, and it is said she might have become a "remarkable journalist" had she been given the chance. In an unpublished autobiography, she described the children
[as having] in common one predominating trait and that was a love of the woods and all wild things.  Lore, though he loved to fish, called for a camera rather than a gun, and I believe a camera and a fishhook have always remained his only weapons. He early developed a liking for research which finally became his speciality.
Lore, like his other siblings including Lou Rogers, attended the Patten Academy, which graduated a number of highly successful individuals. He entered the University of Maine, joined its first football team, and pledged Kappa Sigma.   He earned a B. S. in agriculture in 1896, especially appreciating the one course that was offered in the new science of bacteriology.  Years later the campus dairy industry building would be named in his honor.
Rogers returned home to spend a season as clerk and assistant in his father's lumbering operations. He also used his photography skills to capture the experience and perils of woodsmen's lives.  He was then inspired to pursue bacteriology, selecting the University of Wisconsin, which had opened the first American school of dairy science seven years earlier. He was privileged to study under Harry Luman Russell,  a noted bacteriologist who earned an early PhD in that field at Johns Hopkins University. Lore Rogers remained at Wisconsin for the year 1897-1898, during which time, in addition to his studies, he helped found the Beta-Epsilon chapter of Kappa Sigma.
Lore Alford Rogers