"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. pp. 842-843.

ALEXANDER F. ROSENOFF, of the firm of Rosenoff & Company, Ritzville, Washington,
was born in Russia, October 15, 1873. His parents, Fred and Catherine (Taut)
Rosenoff, were born in Russia, though of German extraction one generation
removed. The family has always spoken the German language, conformed to German
customs, and in no sense were they Russians except in legally being subjects of
the czar. They came to the united States from Russia in 1877, settled in
Nebraska, thence to Walla Walla, Washington, and thence, in the fall of 1882, to
Adams county, where they filed on land four miles northwest of Ritzville. The
father, now a retired farmer, was in his youth a wagonmaker by trade, and is a
man of clever mechanical genius. Both parents are now living in Ritzville.
     From his seventh year Alexander F. Rosenoff has lived in Washington
continuously barring the time spent by him in acquiring his education at eastern
schools. At the age of eighteen he entered the German theological seminary at
Crete, Nebraska, remained there two years, then enrolled in the German and
English college at Wilton, Iowa, graduating with the class of 1896. Three years
later he entered the state normal school of Indiana at Valparaiso, registering
in the pharmaceutical department, from which he graduated the same year. Before
taking this course, however, he had engaged in the drug business with W. L.
Olmstead as partner, at Ritzville, who conducted the business while our subject
was in school. John F. Rosenoff bought Mr. Olmsteadís interest when our subject
returned from school. The firm is well established and owns a two-story brick of
large dimensions in the heart of the city. It carries an eight thousand dollar
stock and is fully as well equipped as any high class metropolitan pharmacy.
     Mr. Rosenoff has three brothers and one sister, John F., Henry, Jacob, and
Lizzie, wife of John Kanzler.
     On April 15, 1900, at Ritzville, occurred the marriage of Alexander F.
Rosenoff to Daisy W. Clark, a native Iowan, whose father, also a native of Iowa,
comes of an old American family, which for many generations has lived in
Tennessee. Mr. Clark now lives at Moscow, Idaho, while Mrs. Clark is dead. Mrs.
Rosenoff has one brother, Claude B., who lives with his father.
     Mr. Rosenoff in fraternity circles is identified with the Prairie Queen
lodge, K. of P., is a Republican in politics, though not an active party man,
and both he and Mrs. Rosenoff are members of the Congregational church. They
have one child, Donald, who was born on November 10, 1903. Mr. Rosenoff has
various other property and business interests, among which may be mentioned
stock in the Golden Monarch Mining & Milling Company of British Columbia and in
the Ballard Coffer mine near Newport.

Submitted by: Georgia Harter Williams, georgiahw@earthlink.net