Roseberry, Frank M.

ROSEBERRY, PAGE

Posted By: Linda Ewin Ziemann (email)
Date: 8/17/2003 at 20:37:00

Frank M. Roseberry, senior member of the law firm of Roseberry & Roseberry at Le Mars and one of the oldest members of the Plymouth county bar, is a native of New Jersey, born at Belvidere, that state, September 18, 1857, son of Joseph M. and Sallie (Depue) Roseberry, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Pennsylvania.

Frank M. Roseberry was prepared for college in private schools and entered Princeton University, a fellow student of Woodrow Wilson, and was graduated from that institution in 1881. In that same year he came to Iowa and entered the law department of the Iowa State University, graduating in 1883, when he opened an office for the practice of law at Le Mars. A year later he moved over to Remsen, but in 1888 moved back to Le Mars, where he ever since has been engaged in practice, for many years having been regarded as one of the leading lawyers in this part of the state. His son, C. D. Roseberry, is now associated with him in practice, and under the name of Roseberry & Roseberry.

It was on September 16, 1885, that Frank M. Roseberry was united in marriage to Della M. Page, of Remsen, this county, and to this union three children have been born, Clarence Depue, Florence M. and Irene D. Clarence D. Roseberry, present county attorney of Plymouth county, was graduated from Cornell College and after taking two years at the law department of the Iowa State University engaged in practice, in partnership with his father, at Le Mars. Florence M. Roseberry, who is a graduate of the Iowa State University, is the wife of Frank L. Stearns, of Le Mars, a traveling representative of the firm of Marshall Field & Company of Chicago. Irene D. Roseberry is now a senior at the Iowa State University. The Roseberrys are members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Roseberry is president of the official board of the same. He is a Republican and in his fraternal affiliations is connected with the local lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Knights of Pythias.

Contributed by Nancy Richings
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