A. P. Rose    

A. P. ROSE real estate dealer, Sandy Lake, Penn., was born in Harrisville, Butler Co., Penn., July 24, 1837. His grandfather, Ephraim Rose, was a native of Somerset County and a resident of Mercer and. Venango Counties for many years. He was a foundry-man and furnace manager in early times, his last furnace being at the mouth of Oil Creek, where Oil City now stands. John Rose, the father of A. P., was an ornamental painter and cabinet-maker by trade, was born in Mercer County, and on July 5, 1832, was married to Mary Clark, daughter of Abraham and Catherine (Starr) Clark, of Cool Spring Township. He was a resident of Pine Grove, and afterward of Harrisville, Butler County, where he followed his trade, also serving the public as postmaster and the State as captain of a militia company, holding a commission from Gov. David B. Porter. In 1845 he moved west to Lee County, Iowa, where he and two of his children died in 1846, his widow and his sons, A. P. and E. L., the only survivors, returning to Mercer County, Penn. E. L. Rose, brother of A. P., died at Mercer in 1879, from disease contracted while in the service of his country, the subject of this sketch and his mother being the only survivors of the family. A. P. Rose was educated in the common schools of Jackson Township. At the age of fourteen he was employed by Sennett & Warren, a furnace and mercantile company at West Middlesex, in whose service he remained as clerk and book-keeper for over five years. In the spring of 1858 he went by water route to the Pacific Coast, and spent fourteen years in the frontier gold mining camps of California, Idaho and Montana. He was much exposed to the incidental dangers of that life, but his love of peace, powers of persuasion and “artful dodging” saved his scalp. When in the southern mines of California, in the early days of our late unpleasantness, he was chosen colonel of a home military organization, that was organized to counterbalance a “Golden Circle” of that section. It had a quieting and soothing effect upon the Circle. He was six years a resident of Northern Montana, located at Lincoln Gulch, an isolated mining camp, situated in the territory of the hostile Blackfeet Indians. Before the establishment of post-offices he carried express from Helena to the northern camps. He was afterward postmaster, express agent, merchant and packer at Lincoln; was the Republican nominee for the Territorial Legislature in 1867, and in 1870 for county treasurer of Deer Lodge County. He returned to Mercer County, Penn., in 1872, and conducted a general store at Jackson Centre for several years, when he served also as postmaster. He came to Sandy Lake in 1879, and in 1880, leaving his family at Mercer, went to Arizona Territory, in behalf of the Milner heirs. He returned with his family to Sandy Lake in 1883, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile and real estate business. He was married on September 5, 1876, to Eva Carroll, daughter of W. A. Carroll, of Worth Township. They have two children: Edwin Carroll and Nellie May. In politics A. P. Rose is a Republican; in religion a Liberal, believing in the religion of humanity—of doing unto your fellows as “ye would that they should do unto you.”

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1064-1065.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.