ROSE, J. B.

ROSE, LOVEJOY

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Date: 12/9/2001 at 09:42:12

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF De Witt TWP.
From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) pgs 736-751

J. B. ROSE, proprietor of cheese factory and produce dealer, De Witt; Mr. Rose was born in Canada in 1844; his parents removed to Ohio in 1855; he went to Illinois in 1864. Married, in 1865, Mary C. Lovejoy, of Wellington, Ohio. Mr. Rose went to Davenport in 1874, and engaged in the butter and egg business; he came to De Witt in 1875; built his cheese factory at this place in 1818; this is the pioneer cheese factory in the county, being the first one built in the county; it is one of the finest in the State; has the capacity for the milk of 1,000 cows. Mr. Rose is Manager of the Pleasant Valley Dairy Association, at Berlin, Iowa; his intention is to make Clinton Co., second to none in dairy interests. In 1878, his cheese took the first premium at the State Fair, at Cedar Rapids; also, over thirty competitors in St. Louis in October, 1878; and again at the International Fair, in New York City in December of the same year. He is manager of the Dairy Department of the De Witt Observer. Has two children-Ida and Ira.