Daniel Rogers (1789-1822)

He built the floating dry dock at Mobile, Alabama, which was one of the first if its kind in the country. He married one widow Mather, 15-years his senior, and they had one daughter, Mary Cecilia Rogers, "the beautiful cigar girl," made famous by Edgar Allan Poe. Daniel was killed in a steamboat explosion in New Orleans. His widow placed their daughter in a cigar shop, which very much displeased the Rogers family, but before they could interfere, her tragic death occurred.