. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Walter G. Rose was born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 2, 1814. He was second son in a family of three sons and three daughters of Horace and Marcia (Edgerton) Rose, the former a native of Coventry, and the latter a native of Lebanon, Conn. His parents removed from Connecticut and settled in the town of Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1827, where they followed the occupation of farming, and for awhile
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. Walter G. Rose was born in Coventry, Conn., Oct. 2, 1814. He was second son in a family of three sons and three daughters of Horace and Marcia (Edgerton) Rose, the former a native of Coventry, and the latter a native of Lebanon, Conn. His parents removed from Connecticut and settled in the town of Hartwick, Otsego Co., N. Y., in 1827, where they followed the occupation of farming, and for awhile his father was a merchant. There they re- mained until the year 1846, when the family came to Hornellsville (except one daughter, Mary Ripley Rose, who died in Otsego County), where the parents lived until their decease, the father dying in the year 1862, at the age of seventy-four; the mother died at the age of eighty-six, in the year 1875. Of the children, all are living except Ashley and Horace J., leaving those who survive at the time of writing this sketch, Walter G., Mrs. J. X. Brands, and Mrs. Jonathan Wyatt, of Wisconsin. Mr. Rose, after receiving a fair education at the common school, at the age of seventeen was apprenticed to learn the tinner's trade, with term of service of three and one-half years, followed with three years as a journeyman. His industry and integrity exemplified during this time won the confidence of his employer, and he was taken in as a partner in the business, which was continued for some six years at Hartwick, Otsego Co., when Mr. Rose started a general merchandise store for himself, which he carried on until 1845, and disposed of it. The same year he came to Hornellsville and purchased the property he now occupies, in connection with his father, which they took possession of in the spring of 1846. At this time Hornellsville was a small village of some two hundred and fifty inhabitants. Mr. Rose at once established a general hardware business an
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