Alameda County Biographies

FREDERICK ROSE

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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Was born in Westphalia, Germany, May 19, 1826.  Having resided with his parents 
until he attained the age of twenty-six years, our subject then sailed from 
Bremen for the United States, and arrived in New York in October, 1852.  He 
afterward engaged in the grocery business in that city for five years, and in 
April, 1858, sailed by way of Panama for the Pacific Coast, arriving in San 
Francisco in the following month of May, with his brother Charles Rose.  After 
working in a brewery for nine months, he returned to the Eastern States on 
business, but in the short space of twenty days, his face was once more turned 
toward California.  On arrival he stayed for a little time in San Francisco, 
when he left and commenced teaming from Sacramento across the Sierra Nevada to 
Virginia City, and was the first to bring a load of freight to the town of 
Austin, Nevada.  This occupation Mr. Rose followed for about four years, when he 
came to Alameda County, first located on the place now owned by Hon. Daniel 
Inman, but, November 1, 1866, settled on his present valuable property of one 
hundred and sixty acres, situated two miles and a half northeast of Livermore, 
where he is engaged in general farming and fruit-raising.  Mr. Rose married in 
Livermore, Alameda County, California, Miss Amy Lindermann, a native of 
Holstein, Germany, and has eight children, viz.:  Frederick C., William, Amy, 
John, Rudolph, August, Albert, and George W.
 
History of Alameda County, California�, Oakland, M.W. Wood Publ., 1883, p. 968