Robert Lawson Rose (October 12, 1804 – March 14, 1877) was a
U.S. Representative
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from New York, son of
Robert Selden Rose and son-in-law of
Nathaniel Allen.
Born in
Geneva, New York
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, Rose received limited schooling as a youth. He moved to
Allens Hill, New York and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He held several local offices, and then was elected as a
Whig to the
Thirtieth and
Thirty-first Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1851). Afterwards he resumed agricultural pursuits and returned to Geneva, New York. He subsequently moved to Pleasant Grove, near
Funkstown, Maryland
Funkstown is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 904 at the 2010 census.
History
Originally were sold to Henry Funk by Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore in 1754 and settled as ''Jerusalem''.
The Civi ...
, in 1868, and engaged in the manufacture of paper until his death there. He was interred in
Rose Hill Cemetery (Maryland)
Rose Hill Cemetery, located in Hagerstown, Maryland, is the oldest public cemetery in Washington County, Maryland, Washington County Maryland. The cemetery features over 102 acres of burial space and is the final resting place of over 43,000 ind ...
,
Hagerstown, Maryland
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.
Sources
1804 births
1877 deaths
Burials at Rose Hill Cemetery (Hagerstown, Maryland)
Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
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