Sacramento County Biographies

M. R. ROSE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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SACRAMENTO TOWNSHIP.
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	resides corner K and Ninth streets, Sacramento. His lot, 80x160 
feet, with improvements is valued at $15,000. He was born near Johnstown, 
Columbia County, Pa., July 4, 1828, where he engaged in woolen manufacture until 
1851, when he came to California. Previous to 1858, he was variously occupied, 
but in that year he embarked in his present business, manufacturing water works. 
In 1857 he married Miss Elizabeth T. Given, a native of Pennsylvania; they have 
four sons, and have lost an only daughter. 

Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.