East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13

Conventions for Representative In
Congress from the 9th Congressional
District Of Michigan, is q native OF
Chenango Co., N. Y. He spent his
minority in Chenango, Madison and
Orange counties, acquiring 10y his own
unaided exertions liberal education,
after which he studied law in N. Y.
City, supporting himself while so do
ing, by performing extra duties as a
clerk, and by writing for several of
the city papers. He closed his studies
in the office of Hon. Benjamin f.
Butler, District Attorney for the South
ern District of N. Y, under General
Jackson, and firm and trusted
friend of the old hero-was admitted
to the bar, and practiced law with ex-
cellent success in that city for one
year, when he was induced to try his
fortune in California, the new El Do
RADIO toward which the tide of eme-
grafton was at that time so strongly
tending. He reached San Francisco
in tho Spring Of 1910, and immodi-
ately commenced the practice of his
profession, in which Inc at once ac-
CURED first-class reputation and es-
tablished lucrative business. Says
Ex-Governor ALPHEUs FELcH, Of this
State who was sent to California
about that time, as u. S. Land
Agent, and who there became ac-
quainted Mr.. Rose--in private letter:
"He (Mr. R.) sustained the character
"of high-minded, honorable gentle
"man, as well as man of ability
"His connection with the investiga-
ton of land titles, then undergoing
examination before the Lard Com
missioner, called for talent and legal
requirements of the highest order,
"and in this field he acquitted him
" self in the most creditable manner"
nqGr~afus McAffistear; / Rose, sustained
leading position in that city, distin-
guished for pre-eminent legal ability,
as long as it had an existence.
Mr.. Rose, who possesses an organic
ing mind of rare power, and beneath
whose quiet and undemonstrative de-
meanor is hidden measure of force
far beyond that of ordinary men, was
active in planning and carrying out the
admirable educational system of San
Francisco, having been for many years
a leading member Of the Board of
Education, was President OF the first
Agricultural Society organized on the
Pacific slope, and was foremost in or
ganizing many of the most valuable
public improvements in California, in
which State he was universally regard
ed as useful and public spirited citi-
zen, a respected and esteemed member
of society.
Mr.. r. came to Saginaw Valley in
1860, at time when the development
OF our saline resources first began to
give promise of successful results in
the future. In this development he
at once took prominent and active
part, and succeeded through his own
personal exertions, in inducing an in
vestment of outside capital to the ex-
tent of quarter million of dollars in
the business. To him belongs the
credit also of organizing the East Sag
NAV Gas Light Co., and the company
which put the first bridge structure
across the Saginaw River. Here, as
elsewhere, he has been O useful men,
Der of community, and he has had
under his control, during the whole
time of his residence among us
large amount Of real estate and other
property of Eastern capitalists, whose
confidence in his ability and integrity,
the result of long years of acquaint-
ance and business association, is of
itself sterling endorsement of his
character and reputation as business
man.
Politically, Mr.. Rose has always
boon q Democrat. Deeply imbued in
early life with the principles of Jeffer-
son, jackson, Woodbury., Cass, Wright
and the noble line of fathers whose
pure teachings are tho richest heritage
Di the nation, he has ever been con-
slstent in his advocacy of the rights
Of the people, the paramount obliga-
ion resting upon all, to maintain the
Union in its integrity against assail-
lnts from every quarter, and the Con-
as the fathers made it. In
he late crisis he was heartily for sus-
aiming the Government in all its eff
orts to crush out rebellion, and though
liffering from the Administration up
IN many points of policy, never to the
slightest extent INDUCED in cavil, Grim