RODGERS Mortimer William
Date of birth : January 13, 1898, New York.
Date of death : January 7, 1970, New York.
Addresses
* 1930 : 314 East 85th Street, New York ()
* 1949 ; 730 Park Avenue, New York
* 1970 : 132 East 72nd Street, New York City.
Profession OB/GYN surgeon.
Story
Brother of composer Richard Rodgers.
His father was William Abraham Rodgers, a successful physician.
On June 8, 1926 he married Ethel Maria Salant (June 18, 1903, New York-1983, New York).
They had a son John S. (born in 1930, New York).
He married Susan Kronthal (May 20, 1910, New York-October 12, 2008, New York) on November 19, 1937, in New York.
They had a daughter, Audrey A. Rodgers (born in 1939, New York).
He studied at the Columbia University School of Medicine.
From 1956 to 1962, he was director of the gynecology obstetrics at Lenox Hill Hospital, and president of its medical board in 1959-1960.
He operated on Marilyn of an endometritis on June 23, 1959, at the Lenox Hill Hospital.