Author: Rose, Robert Hutchinson
Biography:
ROSE, Robert Hutchinson (1776-1842: ancestry.com)
Rose was born in Chester County PA, the son of immigrants whose names are not reliably recorded--his mother from Ireland and his father from Scotland. He was educated in Philadelphia and graduated from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, but he never practised as a physician. His contributions to a literary journal, the Port Folio, were collected and edited by a friend as Sketches in Verse in 1810, in which year Rose married Jane Hodge, with whom he had seven children. In 1809, he had bought an enormous tract of land (eventually encompassing 140,000 acres) which he set about promoting and developing as Silver Lake Township in Susquehanna County PA. His advertisements were directed especially to Irish and to African-American settlers. He built roads and mills, founded cooperative societies, and established the first bank in the County. When he sent a copy of his Address Delivered Before the Agricultural Society of Susquehanna County (1820, printed at the newspaper office in the town named for him, Montrose) to the former President James Madison, Madison commended his "very judicious observations" and contribution to "the spirit & progress of improvement in our Country." He died in Silver Lake and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. There is a cache of Rose Family Papers in the Binghamton University Library. (ancestry.com 8 Aug. 2020; findmypast 8 Aug. 2020; "Rose Family Papers: Finding Aid" [rev. 2010], Binghamton University Libraries; "From James Madison to Robert H. Rose, 10 February 1821," Founders Online 8 Aug. 2020) HJ
Other Names:
- R. H. R.