Rose, Joseph L. bio

Portrait and Biographical Album of Fulton County, Illinois: containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county: together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state; Biographical Pub. Co., Chicago, IL; 1890; page 593–594; Transcribed by Margaret Rose Whitehurst
Joseph L. Rose is one of the most intelligent, progressive and enterprising of the native-born citizens of this county. Though so young, but few men of his calling have been more successful than he, as he is already one of the leading farmers and stock-raiser of this part of Illinois. He is an extensive land owner and he is the proprietor of a valuable farm in Lewistown
Township where he makes his home, and carries o his business.
Mr. Rose was born in Isabel Township, this county, April 3, 1862. His father, Barnabas Rose, a pioneer of the county, was a native of Derbyshire, England, where his parents spent their entire lives. The father of our subject was reared and married in the land of his birth, and resided there until 1844, when he emigrated to America accompanied by his wife and two children, he being the only member of his father’s family who ever came to this country. The little party landed at New Orleans and came directly by the way of the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers to Havana and thence to Fulton County. He bought a tract of timber land in Pleasant Township, and built upon it a home for the shelter of his family, and at once commenced the improvement of a farm. He resided there a few years and then bought a flour-mill in Isabel Township. He removed thither, but continued to manage his farm, while superintending the operation of the mill. He was very industrious, and was a man of marked foresight and sound judgment, and before his death accumulated a valuable property, and added to his real estate until he had six hundred and eight acres of land. He rounded out a long and busy life in Isabel Township, in 1884, at the age of eighty-four years.
The mother of our subject, who was Elizabeth Weston before her marriage, was a native of England. Her parents came to America, and the grandmother of our subject died at New York, soon after landing. His grandfather spent his last years with his children. He had three sons, named Samuel, Edward and John, and all came to America. The mother of our subject died on the home farm in Isabel. She reared six children of whom the two eldest were born in England. The names of the children are, Elizabeth, Charles, Robert, Jane, William and Joseph L.
The latter named who is the person of whom we write, laid the foundation of his education in the public schools of his native township, and he afterward advanced it by attendance at the Gem City Business College at Quincy. He inherited from his father a decided taste for business, and quite early in life commenced buying and shipping cattle. At the time of his marriage he bought the James Asbell farm in Pleasant Township, and resided there until 1890. In that year he bought and removed to his present farm in Lewistown Township. The farm contains two hundred and seventy acres of finely tilled land, located one mile south of the court house. Mr. Rose is the proprietor of six hundred and thirty acres of farm land in this county, including the old home farm in Pleasant Township, and he is one of the wealthy young men of the county. To the lady who presides so charmingly over their pleasant home, he was married in 1882. She was formerly Miss Maggie Hogon. Her wedded life with our subject has brought them three children – Charles Patrick, Edward and Blancie. Mr. and Mrs. Rose possess in an eminent degree those genial, courteous, social qualities, that attract friends of whom they have many, and their charming home is the centre of that true hospitality that knows so well how to welcome the coming and speed the parting guest.