BIOGRAPHY: Horace R. 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. 28-9
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HORACE R. ROSE, one of the rising young attorneys of the Cambria bar, is the son 
of the Hon. W. Horace Rose, whose sketch appears above. He was born in 
Johnstown, September 16, 1862, and attended the public schools of Johnstown for 
a number of years, and then for two years was a pupil in the Select and 
Preparatory School of Professor Burr. He subsequently entered Philips Exeter 
Academy, at Exeter, New Hampshire. There he prepared for the Freshman class at 
Washington and Jefferson college. After his course in college he returned to 
Johnstown and engaged in teaching. For a time he taught night school, and was 
for one term principal of the Coopersdale schools. He studied law in his 
father's office, and on April 5, 1886, was admitted to practice at the bar of 
Cambria county, and two years later was admitted to practice before the Supreme 
Court of Pennsylvania. He now practices his profession in the office with his 
father, and is concerned in many important cases. Mr. Rose is a member of 
Johnstown Lodge, No. 157, F. and A. M., and of Johnstown Lodge, Knights of 
Pythias. Mr. Rose is a man of fine physique and is quite an athlete. He is a 
firm believer in the maxim, "a sound mind in a sound body," and keeps both in 
tune for hard work by exercise in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium and by occasional 
outings with dog and gun, and always keeps a stable of fine horses. He 
speculates in real estate and owns a number of good tenement houses.
     On November 18, 1885, he was united in marriage to Clara Ewing Bell, 
daughter of John E. Bell, of Washington, Pa.; to this union were born three 
daughters, viz.:  May Bell, Gladys Romaine and Julia Winters.
     The experience of Mr. Rose in the Johnstown flood was thrilling.  Escaping 
from the third floor of his bather's brick house while it was being demolished 
by the raging waters, he was carried two squares toward the now famous "stone 
bridge," amid the crushing, grinding wreckage and debris, and finally lodged 
upon a roof-top in sight of his home, where his wife and daughter were out of 
reach of the flood.  But the angry waters, and perhaps death, were between him 
and his family.  How near, yet how far!  He was rescued the following day at 
noon.