Isaac P. Rose and Margaret Gibson
Husband Isaac P. Rose 1
Born: Feb 1815 - Wolf Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: 1899 2 Buried:Marriage:
Wife Margaret Gibson 1
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1908 Buried:
Father: George Gibson ( -1854) 3 Mother: Ann Vincent ( - ) 4
Children
1 F Mary J. Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Aft 1908 Buried:Spouse: Hugh H. Warnock ( -Bef 1908) 5
2 F Anna Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1908 Buried:Spouse: D. C. Mayne ( - ) 5
3 M James B. Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 F Lemira Rose 5
AKA: Myra Rose 6 Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John Watson Davidson (1856- ) 7 Marr: 26 Oct 1881 7
5 M Willis Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Bef 1908 Buried:
6 M George G. Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
7 M Otis L. Rose 2
Born: 1 Feb 1861 - Shenango Twp, Lawrence Co, PA 2 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Matilda Hartzel ( - ) 5
8 F Olive Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Edward Gardner ( - ) 5
9 M Elmer E. Rose 5
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Isaac P. Rose
In his youth he worked on a farm and found amusement in hunting and fishing, at the age of fifteen years, being an expert with the rifle. Up to that time he had received but three months of schooling. He continued on the farm, but in listening to the stories of trapping and fishing told around the old stove in the leading New Castle general store, he became so inspired that the homely duties of the farm grew distasteful. He was nineteen years old when he left his plough and, in company with a companion, Joe Lewis, he made his way to Pittsburgh. The boys had cherished the hope of securing employment as stage drivers but, as they found no opening in that direction, they accepted berths at $15 per month as deck hands on a steamboat that was then loading for St. Louis. When they reached the latter city, Rose found employment as a hack driver in a livery stable, and Lewis a job of attending to the horses. Here the boys became acquainted with a number of "Rocky Mountain Boys," as they were called, and became fascinated with their stories of mountain life, of fights with bear and adventures in buffalo, elk and deer hunting, together with skirmishes with the Indians. Soon after this he joined a company formed by Nathaniel Wyeth, which started from Independence for the Rocky Mountains, with an outfit worth $100,000, sixty men and 200 horses and mules heavily loaded with goods. No novel was ever written depicting more thrilling encounters with Indians or hair-breadth escapes than were experienced by Isaac Rose and his companions. These are fully recounted in a volume entitled, "Four Years in the Rockies," the authorship of which is accredited to James B. Marsh, but is practically the work of Mr. Rose himself. It is a work full of interest for all readers and but brief excerpts can be repeated in the limits of the present biographical sketch.
At the Gallatin River Isaac Rose and his party were joined by some trappers belonging to the American Fur Company, one of whom was Kit Carson. For years this noted trapper and Mr. Rose were closely associated in their adventurous life. Later, Mr. Rose became so expert a trapper himself that he won a prize of $300 as a trapper of beaver. In 1836 he had a thrilling experience with Indians, which almost caused the loss of his arm and was the real reason for his final return to civilization. The injury to his arm was so serious that the wild life he was then leading, with its dangers and hardships, could scarcely be continued and he finally returned to St. Louis. He there was reunited with his old friend, Joe Lewis, and they decided to go back to the old home, having had quite enough of adventure. Mr. Rose had accumulated some means and the first use he made of it when he reached Mercer County was to erect a comfortable dwelling for his aged parents, on land he bought in Croton, land which he subsequently sold to advantage in town lots. He immediately set about, also, to repair the defects in his education, and in November, 1838, started to school and applied himself so closely that in the following winter he was accepted as a teacher and made school-teaching his main work in life. For forty-seven consecutive winters he continued to teach school, his services being given in all the wards in New Castle and in Neshannock, Hickory, Slippery Rock, Big Beaver, Taylor and Shenango Townships. He was very successful, for he had not only acquired the necessary book learning, but his experience had given him knowledge and his hardships had broadened his views so that he knew human nature better than years of collegiate training could have taught. These qualities served him well, also, when he was called on to administer the office of justice of the peace, enabling him to judge fairly and wisely and frequently to adjust differences without recourse to the law. He undoubtedly exerted more influence in his community than any other man of his day. In his political sentiments he was a Republican and held many local offices, elected on the ticket of that party. For many years he served as school director in Neshannock and Shenango Townships and belonged to the board of examiners of teachers. In 1849 he was elected county auditor and served as such for three years, and for fifteen years he was justice of the peace in Shenango Township.
For forty-five years Isaac Rose was connected with the Center United Presbyterian Church, being an elder and an officer in the Sunday-school.
1 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 448, 573.
2 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 448.
3 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 405, 573.
4 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 573.
5 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 450.
6 Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 935.
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Aaron L. Hazen, 20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1908), Pg 934.
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