Mr. Harrison Rosa 1826-1910

ROSA, CHAMBERLAIN, LOREE

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 6/9/2020 at 16:24:58

Monticello Express 19 May 1910

The body of Harrison Rosa, a former citizen of Monticello, reached here, last Friday morning, accompanied by the widow of the deceased and his son, William L. Rosa. Interment was had in Oakwood cemetery. The Express noted last week the death of Harrison Rosa, which occurred at Lake Charles, Louisiana, on the 10th.

Mr. Rosa was born at Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, Mar 20, 1826. He therefore lacked only ten days of being 84 years of age, at the time of death. Mr. Rosa resided at the place of his birth until he reached manhood, when he moved with his parents to Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the business of running a general store until the fall of 1850, when he came to Monticello and engaged in the drygoods business, under the firm name of Bacon & Rosa. He afterwards sold his interest in the business, and removed to Chicago, in August, 1866, and became a general salesman for Bowen Bros. He remained with that firm and their successors until they went out of business in 1875. He then became an employee of J. V. Farwell & Co., wholesale drygoods merchants, of Chicago, and remained with them until the first of January, 1895, when he retired and moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where he spent the remainder of this life.

Mr. Rosa is survived by his widow, who was a daughter of the late Simon Chamberlain, of Monticello, and also by three sons, William L. Rosa, Frank Rosa and C. H. Rosa and by one daughter, Mrs. C. L. Loree, of Lake Charles, Iowa (Louisiana). Mr. Rosa is very kindly remembered by the older citizens, who knew him when a resident of Monticello, and who had the pleasure of meeting him when he visited here.

He never lost an interest in this place, which furnished him some pleasant memories. He always kept in touch with the town and its people by a purusal of the local papers. He was an unusually good salesman, always courteous and faithful to the interests entrusted to him. This was well illustrated by his long service in the wholesale house of J. V. Farwell & Co.