Leonard John Rose
Leonard John Rose | |
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39th district | |
| In office January 3, 1887 – January 7, 1889 | |
| Preceded by | District created |
| Succeeded by | Joseph E. McComas |
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| Born | 1827 Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Amanda Jones (after 1851)viticulturist, and California State Senator |
Leonard John Rose (1827 – May 17, 1899) was a California pioneer and politician who served in the
Life and career
Rose was born in the
Rose's record and great success as a vineyardist and orchardist on a large scale, and as a raiser of fine stock, was well known. Early American settlers in Los Angeles gravitated to the moist lands on which corn could be raised without irrigation. But Rose, following the example of Don Benito Wilson and one or two others, went to the foothills, where abundant water could be saved or developed, before it sank into the plains, and where heavy frosts were unknown, and demonstrated on a magnificent scale the possibilities of the citrus and grape industries on those foothills lands. Rose served Los Angeles county as state senator for the term commencing in 1887, and also as a member of the State Viticultural Society, and of the State Board of Agriculture.[4]
A series of bad investments in California and Nevada between 1887 and 1897 led to his financial ruin. He committed suicide at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 72. Rose was survived by wife Amanda nee Jones whom he had married in 1851 and eight of their sons and daughters. Their son
References
- ^ Lenoard John Rose Family Tree
- ^ Cheney, J.W. (1915). "The Story of An Emigrant Train". The Annals of Iowa, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 82–97.
- ISBN 978-0-87421-437-6.
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- ^ a b Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles (1898). Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles (Public domain ed.). The Society. pp. 277–.
- ^ Licón, Gustavo and Vlack, Brooke M.(2008). Finding aid for Papers of Leonard John Rose, 1813-1953, pp. 3–4. Huntington Library
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles's "Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles" (1898)
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