Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Rose, Samuel 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

Samuel Rose, engaged in the practice of law and in the conduct of a real-
estate and insurance business at Crete, was born in County Carlow, Ireland, in 
October, 1845, and is the second in a family of four children whose parents 
are John and Mary (Ormsby) Rose, both natives of County Carlow. The father was 
a man of education and devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. Coming to 
the United States in 1850, he located in Washington township, where he bought 
a soldiers warrant for one hundred and sixty acres of land, locating the same 
on section 3, Washington township. There he spent his remaining days and 
prospered in his business undertakings. He held membership in the Episcopal 
church and gave his political allegiance to the republican party, which 
organization elected him to the position of highway commissioner. He died, 
however, in 1858 at the comparatively early age of thirty-eight years, while 
his wife survived until 1877 and passed away at the age of sixty-five. She, 
too, held membership in the Episcopal church. Their four children were 
Beecham, now deceased; Samuel; Charlotte M., who has passed away; and John A., 
of Chicago, who is general attorney for the Chicago Union Traction Company. 
Samuel Rose, brought to the United States when a youth of five years, acquired 
a districts school education and through the periods of vacation and after 
putting aside his text-books assisted upon the home farm until 1874. Thinking 
to find commercial pursuits more congenial, he then removed to Beecher, where 
he conducted a general mercantile store and also engaged in dealing in baled 
hay for six years. He then returned to the old homestead, where he remained 
until the fall of 1893, when he took up his residence in Crete. In 1876 he 
began reading law and by diligent study became proficient as a representative 
of the bar, although never having been admitted to the bar. Locating in Crete, 
he established an office and has since engaged in practice in connection with 
the conduct of a real-estate and loan business, meeting with more than 
ordinary success in these lines. Mr. Rose has been twice married. On the 8th 
of January, 1877, he wedded Abbie White, who was born in Champaign county, 
Illinois, and died July 14, 1896, at the age of forty-six years. They had two 
children: Everil E., now deceased; and Blanche E. For his second wife Mr. Rose 
chose Annette J. Hewes, the widow of Benjamin F. Hewes and a daughter of 
Zebediah Dewey, cousin of Admiral George Dewey. She was born in June, 1845, 
and in 1857 accompanied her parents on their removal from the state of New 
York to Will county, Illinois, the family home being established in Washington 
township. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and on the 8th of 
September, 1897, she gave her hand in marriage to Mr. Rose. Of the Masonic 
fraternity Mr. Rose is an exemplary representative and both he and his wife 
are connected with the Eastern Star. He is unfaltering in his advocacy of the 
republican party and upon its ticket has been elected to various local 
offices, capably serving as justice of the peace for eight years, as trustee 
of the schools for thirty years and as a member of the village board of 
health. His aid has been an essential factor in the conduct of various 
interests which have been beneficial to the village and he is widely known as 
a public-spirited citizen. His friends, too, are many, owing to a social, 
genial nature which prompts on his part a kindly interest in his fellowmen and 
thus his life is an exemplification of the utterance of Emerson that "the way 
to win a friend is to be one."

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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