sentences:  His father died when Rogers was 10 years old, and after his mother's remarriage he was raised primarily by an uncle in Lake George.He attended Granville Academy, and graduated from Union College in 1818, where his classmates included William Henry Seward, Sidney Breese, Alonzo Potter and Augustus Porter.Rogers then studied law with his stepfather, Judge Esek Cowen, and was admitted to the bar.