Interested in the poor and destitute, especially the sufferings of sewing women, Rose succeeded in arousing attention for the establishment of a training school in Cleveland, Ohio.

[3] She was a granddaughter of Captain Theodore Parmelee, of Litchfield, Connecticut, whose service in the American Revolutionary War was rewarded by a grant of land.

Educated under Lyman Beecher, he was too liberal to be an adherent of Calvin, and he accepted the views of Oberlin, which opened its college doors to African Americans and to woman.

[3] Martha, the youngest of the children, from twelve years of age to adulthood heard the sermons of Charles G.

She made it one object of her life to see for herself the sufferings of sewing women, and brought to light the frauds and extortion practiced upon them.

She also obtained government work from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving US$800 for furnishing shirts and trousers for that department.

[3] A lecture by the sculptor, McDonald, of New York, gave an account of the manual training schools of France and Sweden.

Rose attended the General Federation of Women's Clubs at Los Angeles, California, as a delegate from Chautauqua, New York.

For three years, these children met in Rose's rooms to make raffia work, burnt wood, and garments.