Edwards, Rev. Jonathan.  "An Illustrated History of Spokane County, State of
Washington."  San Francisco: W. H. Lever, 1900.  p. 423.
 
JAMES M. ROSE

     a pioneer of 1877, is a native of Lafayette county, Missouri, born near
Auttsville, June 19, 1850. When he was five years old his family started across
the plains by ox team. Mr. Rose remembers distinctly the shooting of three
highwaymen, captured after stealing the horses belonging to the expedition, but
not executed until convicted by a jury of twelve men. Mr. Rose also had a
step-sister, Margaret Badger, stolen by Indians, but she was rescued by his
father within three hours, after a hard fight with an Indian, who endeavored to
protect himself by holding the girl up before him on the horse. The rescuer,
however, being an expert rifleman, brought down the Indian without injuring the
girl. At length the family located in Linn county, Oregon, and Mr. Rose received
an education at Santa Anna Academy, Lebanon, Oregon. After graduation he engaged
in farming. He also learned the carpenter trade, a handicraft which he used to a
good advantage in the Palouse country, after his arrival here in 1877. His
principal occupation, however, was tilling the soil, and for seventeen years
before coming to the city he was a very successful farmer in the Palouse
country,  Since arriving here he has been mining in the north half of the
Colville reservation. He also prospected on. Trail creek, British Columbia; was
among the first to go in on Murphy creek, British Columbia, and has recently
been prospecting with great success in the Seven Devils country, Idaho. He has
several promising claims and an assay office at Granite, Oregon. Mr. Rose was
deputy assessor in 1878 and again in 1898 and is now bailiff under Judge
Prather. But though an influential man in civilized life, he is also a typical
frontiersman, being a veteran hunter and prospector, a hero of the Modoc war,
and a capital marksman. Socially, he is a member of the M. W. of W. He was
married in Linn county, Oregon, June 11, 1874, to Miss Josephine Crabtree. They
have five children, Ira Elmer, Arthur, Florence, George W. and Esther. Ira Elmer
and Arthur enlisted in Company L, First Washington Volunteers for service in the
Spanish war. Elmer was taken with pneumonia in San Francisco and discharged, but
Arthur served through the entire Philippine war.


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Submitted to the Washington Biographies Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.