Born in Geneva, New York, Rose received limited schooling as a youth.
He moved to Allens Hill, New York and engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Afterwards he resumed agricultural pursuits and returned to Geneva, New York.
He subsequently moved to Pleasant Grove, near Funkstown, Maryland, in 1868, and engaged in the manufacture of paper until his death there.
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