California Biographies Mendocino and Lake Counties, California Transcribed by Peggy Hooper This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm Source: History of Mendocino and Lake Counties, California With Biographical Sketches History by Aurelius O. Carpenter And Percy H. Millberry Illustrated, Complete In One Volume Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1914 EUGENE W. ROSE. � A brief review of the various interests which Air. Rose handles so successfully would be enough to prove that he has the energetic temperament from which much may be expected. More complete knowledge of the numerous branches of business in which his activity has found an outlet show that he is the kind of man who "does things," attending thoroughly to all his enterprises, which give evidence in their thriving con- dition of his able management and unremitting care. He is a resident of Lower Lake, and his ranch and stock interests are in that section of Lake county. The well known Palmer ranch of eight hundred acres, at the head of Morgan valley, is the principal property operated by him, though the total acreage under his care is over twice that much, including as it does his own tract of one hundred and sixty acres, his wife's ranch of two hundred acres, and a tract of six hundred and forty acres which he rents from Mr. Getz. Mrs. Rose owns a quarter interest in the Palmer ranch. Mr. Rose is a native son, born August 8, 1864, in Napa county, where his parents settled early in the '50s. John R. Rose, his father, was born in the state of Kentucky, and his mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Franklin, was a native of Missouri, and they were married in the latter state. It was not long afterward that the young couple came overland to California to try their fortune in the land of golden promise, and they made the long trip by ox team. They made their home in Napa county, where their large family of children, three sons and six daughters, was born, and there they continued to reside until the year 1886. when they moved north into Lake county. The mother still survives, at the age of seventy-eight years, making her home in Lower Lake. Napa county was Eugene W. Rose's home throughout his youth and early manhood, and he has been familiar with the stock business all his life, having been trained to the work from boyhood. Farming and teaming, in fact any kind of honorable occupation, also widened his early experiences, all of which he has found valuable in the various undertakings of his mature years. He moved with the family to Lake county in 1886 and has resided here continuously since, and he established his home in Lower Lake eleven years ago. His interests have expanded steadily, and he has proved himself capable of keeping them' well in hand, managing the eighteen hundred acres under his supervision with skill and understanding. He is quite extensively engaged in the cattle business, keeping fifty head of stock, and for the last few years has been buying stock for the Simpson Brothers, of Calistoga. Cal., in his native county. Carrying on agricultural operations on an extensive scale, he also combines teaming with his other activities, making the different branches of his business work together profitably and to their common ad- vantage. Straightforward and without pretense, he is a man who wins confi- dence and retains it, and his dealings in all the relations of life have been such as to gain him a high place in the regard of all who have known him. He is a member of Lower Lake Parlor No. 159, N. S. G. W., and has been honored with election to the presidency of that body. Without taking any active part in politics he has maintained an interest in the success of the Democratic party, which he supports at the polls. Mrs. Rose belongs to one of the old pioneer families of the Morgan valley, her father, Jasper V. Palmer, having settled there in 1870. At that time he had been a resident of California for a number of years. He was a native of Steuben county. New York, born September 29, 1836, and lived in Illinois before he came out to California, making the trip in 1854 in a "prairie schooner." He arrived here in October. Mr. Palmer made a trip back to his old home in Illinois in 1860, again crossing the plains. In the year 1870 he settled in Lake county, upon the beautifully located and well watered tract of eight hundred acres now widely known as a fertile and valuable property, and upon which he made many improvements during his industrious life. All of this estate is still owned by his heirs. There is a watering trough in front of the house to which the supply is piped from a never-failing spring of soft pure water near by, and this has been a favorite watering place for travelers through Morgan valley for years, being quite famous in the locality. On October 22, 1859, Mr. Palmer married Deborah Wing, like himself from New York state, and of the six children born to them Eddie and Jasper are deceased. The survivors are Carrie, Alice, Frances and Nettie. The father died in 1909, aged seventy-four; the mother December 13, 1897, at the age of sixty-four. Mr. Rose married Nettie Palmer in Lakeport October 8, 1894, and their only child, Deborah, is now the wife of Craig Knauer, of Lower Lake, the proprietor of a garage in that town ; Mr. and Mrs. Knauer have two children, Cleta and Harvey Eugene. Mrs. Rose is a member of Laguna Parlor, N. D. G. W.