Sonoma-Marin County CA Archives Biographies.....Rose, James Russel 1822 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Rose, James Russel. The subject of this memoir, whose portrait appears in this
work, was born in Richland county, Ohio, October 22, 1822. He is of Scotch
descent, his ancestors having emigrated from Scotland during the early part of
the seventeenth century. Both of his grand-fathers were veterans in the
revolutionary war, James Harkness, his mother's father, serving six years, and
his grand-father Russel Rose, seven years. When James R. was a child, his
parents moved to Bradford county, Pennsylvania, where he received his primary
education. In 1835 they returned to Ohio, settling in Huron county. At the age
of nineteen he completed his schooling, and then learned the carpenter's trade,
which he followed until his twenty-eighth year. He then engaged in the milling
business until his departure for California. He sailed from New York April 5,
1858, byway of Panama, arriving in San Francisco on the 30th of April. He came
directly to this county. The first Summer he spent in Petaluma and Bloomfield,
and in October, 1858, he located at Tomales, in Marin county, where he
successfully followed farming until 1864, when he returned to this county,
purchasing his present farm below Lakeville, but for the purpose  of educating
his children, his family resided in Petaluma until 1871, when they all removed
to their present home. For a part of this time he had also been engaged in
milling in Petaluma, but having sold his interest in the mill, all his
enterprise and energy were devoted to the culture and improvement of his farm,
until now in the careful culture, the fine improvements, the orchards and
vineyards, and the convenient and commodious buildings, it stands one of the
model farms of Sonoma county. Since his settlement in the county Mr. Rose has
been one of the most enterprising of its citizens. In the organization of the
Sonoma and Marin District Agricultural Society he was one of the prime movers,
and its president for the three first years, and ever since has been one of its
most ardent supporters, having since been its president for two years, and
contributing much of his time and means to its permanent success. Every public
enterprise for the development of the resources of the county, and for the
building up of the best interests of society, has always found in him a zealous
worker and a hearty co-laborer. During the war he heartily endorsed the Union
cause, and gave liberally to the Christian and Sanitary Commission for the
benefit of the sick and wounded of our soldiers. In religious belief he is a
Baptist, and labored assiduously in Petaluma for many years to build up that
church. Mr. Rose married November 10, 1854, Miss Annie Kennorthy, a native of
England, born May 2, 1825. They have two children, Annie E. and Florence L.

Additional Comments:
Vallejo Township

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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