PATRICK ROSE
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913, pg 642

With the exception of eight years spent in Silver City, 
New Mexico, Patrick Rose has lived continuously in Globe 
since 1878 and during the time has been an important factor 
in the development of the city, his activities being of the 
kind that promotes public growth while furthering individual 
prosperity.  

Mr. Rose was born in Los Lunas, New Mexico in 1858 and is a 
son of W.H. and Mary (Towle) Rose, the former a native of 
Pennsylvania and the latter of Ireland.  The mother is a 
sister of Patrick J. Towle, famous as the manufacturer of 
the Log Cabin Syrup.  The parents were married in New York 
and from that state went to New Mexico in 1850, settling in 
Silver City, where they lived for a short time, later 
spending fifteen years abroad and in the eastern part of 
the United States.  In 1876 they returned to Silver City 
and there they still reside, the father being now ninety-
four years of age and the mother eighty three. Of the eight 
children born to their union six still survive, the subject 
of this review being the third in order of birth.

Patrick Rose acquired his education in the public schools 
of Sliver City, New Mexico, and on the 27th of June, 1878 
came to Globe, where with the exception of eight years spent 
afterward in Silver City, he has since resided being today 
numbered among the honored citizens.  He has always been 
interested in mining and in the course of time has accumulated 
valuable holdings, his interests lying almost entirely in 
Gila and Graham Counties.  With three partners he owns and 
operates the Cobra Grande group of mines and the Grey Eagle 
group, located in the Aravaipa district of Graham County 
and he is heavily interested in other groups of mines in 
the Globe district. He was one of the discoverers and 
locators of the Superior and Boston mines which he and his 
associates sold in 1905 for a consideration of more than 
three hundred thousand dollars and he is today one of the 
leading mining men in this section, an expert judge of ore 
values, an able prospector, a practical miner and a 
farsighted business man.  He owns a great deal of valuable 
real estate in Globe and was for a time connected as a 
director with the Globe National Bank, serving in that 
capacity from the time of the organization of the institution 
until it was sold in 1910.  He has other business interests 
and is not only one of the most popular residents of the 
city but one of the most successful.

Mr. Rose married in 1882 Miss Sarah J. Shanley, a native of 
St. Louis, Missouri and a daughter of Patrick and Annie 
(Dwyer) Shanley, who settled in Colorado in 1872, the father 
following freighting for a number of years in that state. He 
also accepted and filled railroad contracts and followed that 
occupation afterward in New Mexico and Arizona, having settled 
at McMillan, Gila County in 1878. He was the organizer of the 
XS Cattle Company in that city, which has now grown to be one 
of the largest concerns of its kind in the U.S.  He died in 
1899 and was survived by his wife until September 1912.

Mr. and Mrs. Rose became the parents of five children: 
William P., who was born in 1882 and is now employed by the 
Arizona Eastern Railroad; George F., who died July 1912, 
leaving a wife and one son, George Patrick; Maud S., the 
wife of Max Bauersfeld, who is connected with the Olive 
Hotel at Safford, Arizona; Cecilia, deceased and Ana Laura, 
who was born in 1894. Mrs. Rose passed away on the 22nd of 
March 1912.  On the 16th of June 1915, Mr. Rose married Miss 
Agnes E. Mavis of West Point, Nebraska.

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