Biography of Henry G. C. Rose

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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1898. Page 285.

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HENRY G. C. ROSE, M. D., the popular physician and surgeon, is one of 
the oldest settlers of Milbank. He was born in Mercer county, 
Pennsylvania, January 10, 1841, the third in the order of birth of a 
family of nine children. He was reared in his native county and was 
educated in the public schools of that place and the academies of 
Mercer and Harrisville, Pennsylvania. Upon completing his education, he 
went to Tennessee. and taught school a short time near Dover, and, in 
the meantime, was investigating slavery, boarding with an overseer, 
George Richardson, who was in the employ of George Stacker, the owner 
of forty slaves. When the John Brown raid occurred, his actions 
were suspicioned, as were all people from the north, and as excitement 
was great, he was given friendly admonitions to leave the vicinity, 
which he did soon after, and began his journey down the Cumberland 
river to Paducah, Kentucky, and from thence to Cincinnati, Ohio, and to 
Mercer county, Pennsylvania, where he resumed his academic course.

	During this time the war broke out, and our subject was one of 
the first men in the county to solicit and get up a company, and 
volunteered on April 19, 1861, under first call for troops, and the 
company was made Company G, Tenth Pennsylvania Reserve. He served with 
that company and regiment through the Seven-days' battle and the second 
battle of Bull Run; after the battle he was taken with typhoid fever 
and taken to the hospital at Washington. After he was sufficiently 
recovered, he was detailed as chief clerk of the Stanton General 
Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, of fifteen hundred beds, 
and after remaining there awhile he was detailed by Secretary Stanton 
as a clerk in the war department to fill out his unexpired term. After 
the close of this term he returned to his home in Mercer county, 
Pennsylvania, and commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Hosack, 
remaining with him until April, 1865, at which time his parents moved 
to Cleveland, Ohio. He accompanied them to that place, and there 
continued the study of medicine under the direction of Professors Weber 
and Salisbury, graduating in 1867. He then practiced for a time in 
Cleveland and Conneaut, Ohio. In 1879 he located in Chicago, Illinois, 
and practiced there until he moved to Milbank, South Dakota, in 1881, 
and has since been a prominent physician in that place. In 1884 he was 
elected the first mayor of Milbank. He has been United States examining 
surgeon and surgeon for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad 
company fourteen years, and is examiner for all the old life insurance 
and many assessment companies. He was one of the first organizers of 
the state medical society in South Dakota, and one of the organizers of 
the G. A. R., in Grant county. In 1890 he partly retired from the 
practice of medicine and went into the drug business, which he has 
since conducted.

	In December, 1 876, Dr. Rose was united in marriage to Miss 
Phcebe Taber, only daughter of Captain Stephen and Charity (Nye) Taber, 
both descendants of the old Puritan settlers of New Bedford, 
Massachusetts. Mrs. Rose was born in Palmyra, New York, and a part of 
her girlhood was passed in that place. Her father was a sea captain for 
twenty-seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Rose are the parents of two children, 
Pearl, who died at the age of five years, and Henry, who is now ten 
years of age. Politically, the Doctor is a Republican. He has for many 
years been a Mason, and is also a member of the K. of P., and the G. A. 
R.

	Dr. Rose is one of the fortunates who can trace his ancestry back 
several generations, and includes among his relatives some of the great 
men of our country. His father, M. H. Rose, was born in Mercer county, 
Pennsylvania, and grew to manhood in his native county and educated at 
the Allegheny college at Meadville, Pennsylvania, and was for several 
years a teacher there. In 1854 he went to Kansas and was one of the 
first justices in the state, and also worked at surveying there. He 
returned to Pennsylvania in about 1856 and stumped the western counties 
of the state for John C. Fremont. He was probate judge and recorder 
from 1856 to 1860, and collector of internal revenue in western 
Pennsylvania in 1864 and 1865 and subsequently was engaged in the real 
estate business. In 1865 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent 
the balance of his life. He attended the World's Fair at Chicago, in 
1893, and died at his home in 1895, in his eighty-fourth year.

	The grandfather of our subject, Jacob Rose, was a native of 
eastern Pennsylvania and migrated to western Pennsylvania on horseback, 
in 1800, when the western part of that state was a wilderness, and 
became one of the first settlers of Mercer county. He was a farmer and 
a stanch Presbyterian, and a soldier in the war of 1812.  He died at 
his home in Mercer county, at the age of eighty-four years. His father, 
Andrew Rose, was born in Berks county, in the eastern part of 
Pennsylvania, in the early part of the history of that state, and was 
the owner of an iron foundry. During the Revolutionary war he was 
manager of the Rose Furnace, casting cannon balls for use in the war. 
His father, Christopher Rose, was born in England and migrated from 
thence to America with his father, about 1670, and was one of the 
owners and proprietors of the town site of Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 
His father fled from England to Holland during the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth on account of religious persecutions of the Puritans.

	Our subject's paternal grandmother, Rebecca Clark, was a daughter 
of Isaac Clark, who had served several years as a lieutenant in the 
English navy. He resigned and moved to Pennsylvania just before the 
Revolutionary war and served as a lieutenant in the American army 
during the war. In that capacity he passed the memorable winter at 
Valley Forge with Washington's army, fought in the battles of 
Germantown, Brandywine, White Plains, Long Island, and was with the 
army at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. After the close of the 
war with the mother country, he returned to his home in Pennsylvania 
and was soon after attacked by the Indians near Wilkes-barre, 
Pennsylvania, saw his own sister killed by the Indians and immediately 
raised a regiment of volunteers for service in the United States army, 
took his sword as colonel, and engaged in an Indian war two years. 
Having served in the struggle for freedom seven years, it gave him a 
record of nine years continuous service in the United States army.

	President McKinley's grandmother, Mary Rose, was a sister of the 
grandfather of our subject, Jacob Rose, to whom we have previously 
alluded; thus the President's father and Dr. Rose's father were first 
cousins. Dr. Rose's mother, who bore the maiden name of Henrietta 
Moore, was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and lived there until about ten 
years of age, when her parents died of cholera, and she went to live 
with her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Quilvan. She was of English descent, and died 
at the age of seventy-nine years. She was an educated, refined and 
handsome lady. Her father was from Baltimore, Maryland, and was one of 
the first settlers in Sandusky, Ohio. Her mother was educated in a 
convent at Baltimore.

	The parents of Dr. Rose had a family of nine children, six of 
whom, three sons and three daughters, are still living, and of the six 
last mentioned the Doctor is the eldest.

	Of the others we have the following record: C. M., who served 
three years in the army, now traveling salesman; Mary, the wife of C. 
W. Coates, attorney at law, of Cleveland, Ohio; Eva, wife of H. G. 
Robinson, of Toledo, Ohio, wholesale boots and shoes; Mark E., a credit 
man in one of the largest firms in Chicago, Illinois; Ella, wife of J. 
H. Vance, druggist of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The deceased are: Julia 
Ferrin, of St. Louis, and two sisters who died in infancy.