BIOGRAPHY: Hon. John M. 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. 27-8
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HON. JOHN M. ROSE, is a son of W. J. and Martha (Given) Rose, and was born May 
18, 1856, in Johnstown.  He was educated in the public schools of his native 
town and in Washington and Jefferson college.  From the latter institution he 
was graduated in the class of 1880.  Like so many of our successful public men, 
he has been a teacher in the public schools, and was for a couple of years 
principal of the Sixth ward schools.  After graduating from college he taught 
two years, then took up the study of the law with his uncle, W. Horace Rose.  In 
June, 1884, he was admitted to the Cambria county bar, and in 1886 was admitted 
to practice before the Supreme Court of the State.  Since his admission to the 
bar he has devoted himself diligently to the practice of law, and his 
perseverance has been rewarded by a large and growing practice.
     He is employed as solicitor for two of the most prosperous local building 
and loan associations, and has been solicitor for several of the neighboring 
boroughs.
     Socially, Mr. Rose is a genial companion and popular with all his 
associates.  As a boy he was the champion whistler of the county, and was in 
great demand at charitable and social gatherings on account of that gift.  He 
enjoys quite a reputation as a post-prandial orator, and no banquet is complete 
without a "speech," or, at least a droll story from the local Chauncey Depew.
     John M. Rose is public-spirited and always ready to do his full share in 
promoting every thing that tends to increase the prosperity of the city.  At 
present he is president of the Johnstown Board of Trade, a body that is very 
active in building up the city by securing the location of many new 
manufacturing and business enterprises at Johnstown.
     Politically Mr. Rose is a republican, and in 1888 was his party's candidate 
for member of the legislature, and although Cambria county was democratic, was 
elected and served for the ensuing two years. In the legislature he had more 
influence than usually falls to the lot of new members, and served on several 
important committees.
     October 21, 1884, he was united in marriage to Fannie S. Slick, daughter of 
George R. Slick, of Johnstown, and to this union was born one child, a bright 
little girl, Mary Ethel, the idol of her parents.