This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RJB.2ACI/254.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Paul. What I have is a county history/bio book and your Samuel is in it. Here's what's written. The date in parens is when he came to Rock Co.: S. W. Rose (1888) has been a resident of Luverne since 1888, the year in which he attained his majority. In company with D. A. Hulett and S. B. Hulett he is interested in the West Side Auto company, a thiriving concern which was organized in September, 1910, and which recently moved into its new and substantial cement block home on Main street. The firm is actively engaged in the sale and repair of automobiles and in the conduct of an up-to-the[-minutes auto livery. They are local agents for the wll known E. M. F. and Flanders "20" cars. The parents of our subject were Martin and Barbara ROse, both natives of Germany who came to this country before their marriage. It was in the early forties, before the railroads began to traverse the state to any extent, that Martin Rose settled in Henry County, Ilinois. At that early day the hardy pioneers were at great disadvantages in the placing of products of the farm. Hogs and produce were hauled by ox team a distance of nearly! 200 miles to market at Chicago, then an unpretentious community. Mr. Rose lived continuously nearly sixty years on the land he filed claim to as a young man. He died in 1900 at the age of eighty-five years. His wife survived him six years and was seventy-eight years old at the time of her decease. It was on the old farm in Henry county, Illinois, on October 21 1867, that S. W. Rose of this review was born. He grew to manhood on the ome place, and it was from there that he moved direct to Luverne in the year already mentioned. For a number of years our subject was engaged as local agenet for several leading machinery and supply houses. At present he represents the interest of the Avery Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of threshing machinery, in Rock county. Mr. Rose has achieved success in his cosen calling, entirely by his own unaided efforts, and has won for himself a respected position in the city which has long been the scene of his activities. Fraternally he is! a Modern Woodman. In Luverne, on December 23, 1896, S. W. Rose was united in marriage to Rachael Cripps. Mrs. Rose is a native of Michigan. Paul - hope you can gleen some new info from this bio. Ruth