Biography

07/17/1835 - 10/17/1907

ROSE, William B., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, July 17, 1835 in Philadelphia , Philadelphia County, Pa.; corporal, Company G, 22nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861, Civil War); first lieutenant, Company H, 106th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865, Civil War); engaged in coach making; claims agent; elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1887); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1889 and 1891 terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1893 term; doorkeeper, United States Mint, Department of Treasury, Philadelphia; died, October 17, 1907 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.