Roosevelt, James Henry – Rose, Thomas Ellwood
Roosevelt, James Henry
philanthropist, was born Nov. 10, 1800, in New York city. He accumulated the sum that he intended from his early manhood to leave for some charitable object. By the terms of his will he left the principal part of his estate to found a noble hospital in New York city which bears his name, and was formally opened in 1871. The property left by him was valued at about $1,000,000. He died Nov. 30, 1863, in New York city.
Roosevelt, James John
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1795, in New York city. In 1835 and 1840 he was a member of the New York state legislature; and in 1842 and 1843 was a representative in congress from New York city. He was judge of the supreme court of the state in 1851; was an attorney of the United States; and held the office of judge eight years. He died April 5, 1875, in New York.
Roosevelt, Robert B
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Aug. 7, 1829, in New York city. In 1868 he was appointed commissioner of fisheries for the state of New York; and from 1868 edited The New York Citizen. He was elected a representative to the forty-second congress as a democrat. He was United States minister to the Netherlands in 1888-89. He was the author of The Game Fish of North America; Coast and Game Birds of the Northern States; Florida and the Game Water Birds; Love and Luck; Progressive Petticoats; and Five Acres Too Much, a Satire.
Roosevelt, Theodore
politician, reformer, soldier, author, was born Oct. 27, 1858, in New York city. He is a politician and municipal reformer of New York city; and president of the board of police commissioners of New York city from 1895 to 1897, when he resigned that position to become assistant secretary of the navy. He is the author of The Naval War of 1812; Hunting Adventures of a Ranchman; Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail; The Winning of the West; The Wilderness Hunter; Essays on Practical Politics; History of the City of New York; and Lives of Thomas H.
Benton and Gouverneur Morris. During the Spanish-American war he served with distinction as colonel of the Rough Riders.
In November, 1898, he was elected goyernor of the state of New York.
Root, David
clergyman, philanthropist, was born in 1790 in Pomfret, Vt. He held pastorates in Guilford and New Haven, Conn., till 1852, when he retired.
He gave $10,000 to endow a professorship in Beloit college, Wisconsin; $20,000 to Yale Theological seminary, and $5,000 to the American Missionary society. He died Aug. 30, 1873, in Chicago, Ill.
Root, Elihu
lawyer, was born Feb. 15, 1845, in Clinton, N. Y. He settled in New York city, where he has attained high reputation; and in 1883-85 was United States district attorney for the southern district of New York.
Root, Erastus
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 16, 1773, in Hebron, Conn. He was a representative in the New York assembly eleven years; was speaker of the house three years; and was state senator eight years. He was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1805, and from 1809 to 1817, when he resigned and was appointed postmaster at Delhi, N. Y. In 1822 he was chosen lieutenant-governor of the state; was again elected to congress from 1831 to 1833. He died in 1846 in New York city.
Root, Frederic Woodman
musician, composer, was born June 13, 1846, in Boston, Mass. He has been very successful as a teacher of vocal music, and has published Root's School of Singing. From 1871 till 1875 he edited the Song Messenger.
Root, Jesse
soldier, clergyman, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 28, 1736, in Coventry, Conn. He settled in Hartford, Conn.; took part in the revolutionary war; and was a delegate to the continental congress from 1778 to 1783. He was appointed judge of the superior court in 1779; and chief justice of Connecticut from 1796 until his resignation in 1807. He died March 29, 1822, in Coventry, Conn.
Root, Joseph C
author, and founder of Woodcraft, was born Dec. 3, 1844, in Chester, Mass. When ten years of age his parents removed to Lyons, Iowa. He received a liberal education; began business for himself in a book-store; afterward operated flouring mills and elevators; and was United States deputy collector when barely of age. In 1860 he founded the public library of Lyons, Iowa; was admitted to the bar in 1879, and founded Woodcraft and promulgated its rituals and teachings in 1883. He has been twice mayor of Lyons, Iowa; has been prominently identified in various business enterprises; proposed and agitated the construction of the Iowa Midland railway; and is the secretary of the Chicago, Lyons and Pacific railway.
He established the first telephone exchange west of the Mississippi river; has been editor of two newspapers of extended circulation; and is the author of several books. He is the sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World, and resides at Omaha, Neb. The entire system now embraces half a million members, has disbursed many millions of dollars, and is increasing rapidly.
Root, Joseph M
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1817, in Cayuga, N. Y. He was appointed prosecuting attorney in Ohio; and in 1840 was elected to the state senate. He served as a representative in congress from 1845 to 1851.
Roots, Logan H
soldier, educator, congressman, was born March 26, 1841, in Perry county, Ill. After the war he settled in Arkansas as a planter. He was elected a representative from that state to the fortieth congress, and re-elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Roots, Philander Keep
civil engineer, banker, was born June 4, 1838, in Tolland county, Conn. He is the son of the noted educator, Prof. B. G. Roots of Illinois. He received his education in the Carrollton academy of Illinois and the Wesleyan university of Bloomington. For several years he was principal of the high school in DuQuoin, Ill. He has been resident engineer on the Mobile and Ohio railroad in Kentucky and Tennessee; United States deputy surveyor in Nevada; chief engineer of the Cairo and Fulton railroad in Arkansas and Missouri; and for over twenty years has been engaged in banking in Little Rock, Ark. He is a prominent Mason and ranks high in various other fraternal orders.
Ropes, John Codman
lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1836, in Russia.
He is a lawyer of Boston well known as a military historian; and the author of The Army under Pope; The Campaign of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The First Napoleon; and The Story of the Civil War.
Rorer, Sarah Tyson
lecturer, author. She is a popular writer and lecturer on cooking.
Rose, Aquila
printer, poet, was born in 1695 in England. He was a printer and verse writer of Philadelphia whose Poems on Several Occasions were collected after his death. He died Aug. 22, 1723, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rose, Chauncey
was born Dec. 24, 1794, in Wethersfield, Conn. He organized the Terre Haute and Indianapolis railroad in 1847, and was the first president. It was his means and influence that caused the construction of the Evansville. Terre Haute and Chicago railroad He established and endowed the Ladies' Aid society of Terre Haute.
He contributed generously to the support of Wabash college. To Providence hospital he gave a large sum of money; and he established and endowed the Rose Polytechnic institute, under the name of the Terre Haute school of Industrial Science.
He died Aug. 13, 1877, in Terre Haute, Ind.
Rose, Daniel De Vinne
soldier, educator, physician, author, was born May 28, 1843, in Onondaga county, N. Y.
He moved to Michigan with his parents; and served in the civil war in the eleventh regiment Michigan volunteer infantry for more than three years. He then became a student and teacher, which he continued until he graduated with the degree of bachelor of science, and later doctor of medicine; since which time he has devoted himself to his profession of medicine and literary work. He has become a prominent physician of Burlington, Iowa; has been county physician, coroner, and medical director of the Grand Army of the Republic. He is the author of What Every Woman Should Know; Physiology of Woman; and numerous other articles in journals and other periodicals.
Rose, James A
lawyer, secretary of state, was born Oct. 13, 1850, in Pope county, Ill. He was in 1896 elected secretary of state of Illinois.
Rose, Robert L
farmer, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1804, in Geneva, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1847 to 1851.
Rose, Robert S
congressman, was born in 1772 in Henrico county, Va. He was a representative in congress from the state of New York from 1823 to 1827, and again from 1829 to 1831. He died Nov. 24, 1835, in Waterloo, N. Y.
Rose, Thomas Ellwood
soldier, was born March 12, 1830, in Bucks county, Pa. Col. Thomas E. Rose, with one hundred and eight other union officers, by tunneling from a cellar, escaped from Libby prison; and among all the thrilling incidents in the history of Libby prison none exceed in interest this celebrated tunnel escape which occurred on the night of Feb. 9, 1864. Of the one hundred and nine men fifty-nine reached the union lines, forty-eight were recaptured and two drowned. After days of suffering he was again captured and sent back to Libby prison, but a few months after was exchanged for a confederate colonel. Col. Rose since the war has served with the sixteenth United States infantry, in which he holds a captain's commission.