sentences:  His father had been a successful lumberman and merchant, and Rogers was financially secure enough to pursue life as a gentleman farmer in Sandy Hill, along with research in botany and other scientific fields and writing on politics and other topics.Rogers became active in politics in the 1820s as a supporter of DeWitt Clinton.He became a Whig in the 1830s, and served in the New York State Assembly in 1833 and 1837.