Aaron Rose (pioneer)

[2] After aiding in the pioneer development of Michigan,[3] he left those forests in 1851, traveled the Applegate Trail,[1] and arrived at the junction of Oregon's South Umpqua River and Deer Creek on September 23, 1851.

[5] He built him a clapboard shanty of sufficiently ample dimensions, near the place where the center of the city now is, and engaged in selling to travelers, teamsters and packers, who were very numerous in those days, such things as they needed.

Uncle Aaron, as he was familiarly called, seems to have thrived and prospered well in his mercantile and other pursuits, notwithstanding the fact that he sometimes saved money by taking his customers' notes for less than half the amount they owed him.

[5] Rose held out the most liberal inducements for people to locate in Roseburg and join him in building up a flourishing city.

[5] When the Southern Pacific Railroad was being built through Oregon, Rose gave the company a land subsidy valued at US$30,000 to run through Roseburg, which is now the end of one of the divisions of the road.