Wallace Matthew Rogerson (1880 - 1943), President of the Wallace Institute of
Chicago
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, was an early 20th-century era exercise leader and record producer.
Rogerson was born in
Moline Rock, Illinois on November 29, 1880. He made exercise records for the
phonograph
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
like "Get Thin to Music," and presaged the work of
Jack LaLanne
Francois Henri LaLanne (; September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011) was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was aged 15. He also had behav ...
. Wallace Rogerson founded the Wallace Institute around the turn of the 20th century and offered in-person physical training and developed Wallace Records, or Wallace Reducing Records.
For many years he conducted the
WGN programme Keep Fit to Music.
A 09/06/2011 PBS "History Detectives" broadcast found that Wallace Records preceded a competitor (named
Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...
) in marketing records for (largely women's) exercising for weight reduction. Rogerson died on February 24, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois
Rogerson's Wallace Institute is not to be confused with another Wallace Institute, which ceased operating September 1, 2002.
See also
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Walter Camp
Walter Chauncey Camp (April 7, 1859 – March 14, 1925) was an American football player, coach, and sports writer known as the "Father of American Football". Among a long list of inventions, he created the sport's line of scrimmage and the system ...
References
External links
Google Search for Wallace M. Rogerson" Google Search for "Wallace Rogerson" exercise
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1943 deaths
American exercise instructors
1880 births