S. L. Rose

Samuel L. Rose was born in Augusta, New York on December 19, 1818.{{cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/historyoffrankli00unio/ |title= History of Franklin and Cerro Gordo counties, Iowa |year= 1883 |publisher= Union Publishing Company |pages= [https://archive.org/details/historyoffrankli00unio/page/173/ 173–174] |accessdate= July 26, 2022 }} He was raised and educated there, attending the Augusta Academy for much of his teenage years. When he was 16, during the winter of 1836, he taught school at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Among his students during this term were Bayard Taylor and James P. Wickersham.{{Cite book|url= https://archive.org/details/historyoffrankli01stua/ |title= History of Franklin County, Iowa |year= 1914 |publisher= S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. |volume= 1 |last= Stuart |first= I. L. |pages= [https://archive.org/details/historyoffrankli01stua/page/203/ 203–204] |accessdate= July 26, 2022 }}

While studying at the academy, he delved into medical science, but ultimately decided to focus on law. After graduating, he went on to read law under the tutelage of Samuel Beardsley in Utica, New York, and later with Timothy Jenkins, in Oneida County. He was admitted to the bar in 1841, and practiced law in New York until moving west in 1850.

Shortly after arriving in Wisconsin, in December 1850, Rose was appointed county judge of Dodge County by Governor Nelson Dewey, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of the incumbent judge, George W. Greene.{{cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106331961/s-l-green-appointed-judge/ |title= George W. Greene... |newspaper= Oshkosh Democrat |date= December 6, 1850 |page= 2 |accessdate= July 26, 2022 |via= Newspapers.com }}

In February 1852 he helped organize a new Jefferson and Dodge County agricultural society, and became a vice-president for Beaver Dam.;[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIFarmerV04 "Agricultural Meeting" Wisconsin farmer and northwestern cultivator Vol. IV no. 3 (March 1852). Racine, Wisconsin: Mark Miller, 1852; p. 68] in October, the new Society would hold their first annual county fair, and Rose would serve as a judge in the category of Fruits.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97079160/1852-jeffersondodge-county-fair/ "Jefferson and Dodge County Agricultural Fair" Democratic State Register October 18, 1852; p. 3, col. 2] He was elected as town chairman (equivalent to mayor) of Beaver Dam in April 1852, which made him ex officio a member of the county board of supervisors.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97077907/town-elections-spring-1852/ "Town Election"], Watertown Chronicle April 14, 1852; p. 2, col. 2 In September 1852 he and Ezra Bowen were on the executive committee of the newly-organized Dodge County Democratic Committee in preparation for the forthcoming general election.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97077070/1852-dodge-county-wi-democratic-county-c/ "Democratic County Committees" Democratic State Register September 27, 1852; p. 2, col. 6] In 1853, he was the Democratic nominee for re-election to his position as county judge,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97082321/ Wisconsin State Journal August 13, 1853; p. 2, col. 1] and was re-elected without opposition.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97082502/ "Judicial"], Daily Free Democrat September 9, 1853; p. 2, col. 1

He was elected in 1854 to a one-year term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly in the 1855 8th Wisconsin Legislature.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97083951/wisconsin-legislature-for-1855/ "Wisconsin Legislature"], Sauk County Standard November 22, 1854; p. 2, col. 2 In the fall of 1855 he was elected to a two-year term as a member of the Wisconsin Senate representing the 22nd Senate district (Dodge County), for 1856 and 1857 (the 9th and 10th Wisconsin Legislatures), succeeding fellow Democrat Ezra Bowen.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55586194/ "Wisconsin Legislature for 1857. List of Candidates"], Wisconsin State Journal October 29, 1856; p. 2, col. 5 via Newspapers.com[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.WIBlueBk1879 Warner, Hans B., ed. The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin, for 1879. Containing the constitutions of the United States and of the state; Jefferson's manual; rules and orders of the senate and assembly, and annals of the legislature; also, statistical tables and history of state institutions Eighteenth Annual Edition. Madison: David Atwood, State Printer, 1879; pp. 189, 191, 193][http://lrbdigital.legis.wisconsin.gov/digital/collection/p16831coll2/id/1303/ State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999). Madison: Legislative Reference Bureau, 1999; pp. 16, 100]

When the Legislature chartered Wayland University in January 1855 and Judson Female Seminary in March, Rose was made a trustee of both institutions.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tMw4AAAAIAAJ "Chapter 28: An Act to incorporate the Wayland University" Private and Local Laws Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five Madison: Calkins & Proudfit, Printers, 1855; pp. 24-26][https://books.google.com/books?id=tMw4AAAAIAAJ "Chapter 349: An Act to incorporate the Judson Female Seminary" Private and Local Laws Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five Madison: Calkins & Proudfit, Printers, 1855; pp. 546-48] The legislature also added him as a new trustee of the Wisconsin Baptist Educational Society, which was permitted to pass part or all of its assets over to Wayland.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tMw4AAAAIAAJ "Chapter 121: An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act to incorporate the Wisconsin Baptist Educational Society'" Private and Local Laws Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five Madison: Calkins & Proudfit, Printers, 1855; pp. 165-66]

In 1855, Rose was 40% shareholder and President of the Dodge County Bank.[http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/WI.V004 Dennis, William M. "Annual report of the Bank Comptroller of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1855", pp. 40, 47; in, Governor's message and accompanying documents Madison: Calkins and Proudfit, 1856]

As early as January 1853, Rose was actively participated in a meeting in support of Moses Strong's announced La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad;[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97081004/ "La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad"], The Weekly Wisconsin January 12, 1853; p. 1, col. 7 and in a convention seeking to have a railroad built between Watertown and Berlin, Wisconsin.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97080270/ "Watertown and Berlin Rail Road Convention" Wisconsin State Journal January 28, 1853; p. 2, col. 4] When the Berlin and Watertown Railroad was chartered by the Legislature in the spring, Rose was one of the directors designated by the Legislature.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/97082901/ "The Berlin Railroad - Its Connection with City Affairs" Democratic State Register April 14, 1853; p. 2, col. 3]

In March 1855, the Legislature of which Rose was now a member chartered the Beaver Dam and Baraboo Railroad Company and the Madison, Fond du Lac and Lake Michigan Railroad Company, making him a director of each of these companies.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tMw4AAAAIAAJ "Chapter 319: An Act to incorporate the Beaver Dam and Baraboo Railroad Company" Private and Local Laws Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five Madison: Calkins & Proudfit, Printers, 1855; pp. 493-502][https://books.google.com/books?id=tMw4AAAAIAAJ "Chapter 320: An Act to incorporate the Madison, Fond du Lac and Lake Michigan Railroad Company" Private and Local Laws Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-Five Madison: Calkins & Proudfit, Printers, 1855; pp. 502-11]

In 1857, he moved to Milwaukee, where he was briefly president of the Milwaukee and Western Railroad Company.

In 1862, Rose moved west to Iowa and purchased 1000 acres at a site called "Skunk Grove" in Hamilton County, Iowa. He purchased the only hotel in the area and opened a post office, where he was named postmaster. Rose was elected to the Hamilton County board for several years, and through a petition to the state legislature, he was able to get the name of the township changed to "Rose Grove" in 1866.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/historyhamilton00compgoog/ |title= History of Hamilton County, Iowa |last= Lee |first= J. W. |year= 1912 |publisher= S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. |pages= [https://archive.org/details/historyhamilton00compgoog/page/151/ 151–153] |accessdate= July 26, 2022 }}

In 1868, the Iowa Legislature created the new office of circuit court judges in the state judiciary, and at the Fall 1868 election, Rose was elected the first judge of the 2nd circuit in the 11th judicial district.

In the late 1870s, Rose returned to Beaver Dam. He died there on March 14, 1887.{{Cite news|url= https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106333507/samuel-rose-obit/ |title= Death of a Wisconsin Judge |newspaper= Green Bay Press-Gazette |date= March 16, 1887 |page= 1 |accessdate= July 26, 2022 |via= Newspapers.com }}

Samuel Rose was a son of Nathaniel Rose, a medical doctor in Oneida County, New York, and his wife Abigail ({{nee}} Knowles). Rose's maternal ancestors were said to have arrived in North America aboard the Mayflower. His paternal grandfather, Timothy Rose, was a private in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolutionary War and was killed in the Wyoming Massacre. There is no mention of Samuel Rose having a wife or children.

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