BIOGRAPHY: Harry G. ROSE, Cambria County, PA 

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From Wiley, Samuel T., ed. Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Cambria 
County, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Union Publishing Co., 1896, p. 28
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HARRY G. ROSE (deceased), attorney-at-law, was the son of Wesley J. and Martha 
(Given) Rose, was born September 19, 1860, at Johnstown, and lost his life in 
the Great Flood of May 31, 1889.
     That great disaster cut short what gave promise of being an exceptionally 
brilliant career.
     He attended the public schools of Johnstown and completed the course in the 
High School. He is remembered by his schoolmates for his diligence as a student, 
his kindness of heart, and his unfailing good nature.
     He studied law in the office of his uncle, W. Horace Rose, and was admitted 
to the Cambria county bar July 19, 1881. He immediately began the practice of 
his profession, and by close application together with great natural ability 
soon attained an enviable position in his profession. In 1883, when only twenty-
three years of age, he was elected district attorney of Cambria county, and gave 
such satisfaction in the conduct of the office, that he was re-elected in 1886, 
and was district attorney at the time of his death.
     On February 5, 1884, he was united in marriage to Miss Jessie Lane, 
daughter of Rev. James A. Lane, who survives him.
     Harry G. Rose was a man of lovable character, and his sudden taking off at 
the very outset of a brilliant career was felt as a personal loss by hundreds of 
friends in the city, who respected him for his unusual ability and success as a 
lawyer, but loved him for his personal qualities.