Biography - ALBERT M. ROSE
Albert M. Rose, judge of the Fourth judicial district of Illinois, was
born in Edwards county, Illinois, on September 22, 1862. He is the son of
Dreaury and Caroline (Ackison) Rose, the former a native of Grayson county,
Kentucky, where he was born in 1828. He died in 1895, November 7th, at his
home in Edwards county, Illinois, having settled there in 1854. He was a
carpenter by trade and followed that business all his life. A Democrat in
his political affiliations, he was always enthusiastic in his support of the
party, and he has in his time held many of the public offices of his
township and county. The mother survived him until 1905, when she passed
away at the family home in Edwards county. Both were members of the
Methodist Episcopal church during their lifetime and were honest and
diligent workers in the church. The father of Dreaury Rose was a native of
the state of Kentucky, but who settled in Clay county in later life and
became well known and prosperous in that county. F. Ackison, the maternal
grandfather of Albert Rose, was a native of the Keystone state. He came to
Illinois early in life, and was one of the pioneer farmers of Southern
Illinois, where he attained a fair degree of success in his business. He
died in Clay county at an advanced age.
Mr. Rose was educated in the common and high schools of his home town and
later attended Vincennes University, at Vincennes, Indiana, graduating in
1888 from that institution of learning.
Immediately upon his graduation he began to teach school, in the summer
seasons spending his vacations in the study of law, in which he was
ambitious to rise, and which efforts his later career have fully and amply
justified. He studied under the tutelage of Barnes & Ramsey, of Louisville,
Illinois, and his labors were so well expended and his instruction of so
high an order that in 1890 he was admitted to the bar. He began the practice
of his profession in 1891, his only resources being his health, brains,
education and his dominant will to succeed, while his liabilities were
fairly represented by a debt of one hundred dollars incurred in opening an
office. He first entered a partnership with John A. Barnes, this alliance
continuing until 1896; his next partner was John R. Bonnie and this
arrangement endured for two years, when he entered a partnership with W. H.
Dillman. Some time later he severed his connection with Mr. Dillman and
entered a partnership with Mr. H. D. McCullum, which continued until the
election of Mr. Rose to the office of circuit judge of the Fourth judicial
district, in November, 1906, of which important office he is still the
incumbent. Judge Rose has always been an enthusiastic Democrat and a
supporter of any ticket that party puts in the field. He is a Mason and a
Red Man, and with his family is a member of the Christian church. In
addition to his legal duties, Judge Rose is the owner of a fine farm in Clay
county, which is in every way a credit to the progressiveness and good
judgment of the man from the point of view of its prosperity and its
well-kept appearance.
On December 28, 1892, Judge Rose was united in marriage with Miss Lulua
Branson, daughter of James M. Branson, M. D., who was prominent for years in
medical circles in Wayne county, Illinois, where he enjoyed a. goodly
measure of prosperity and popularity. He died in 1898, at his home in "Wayne
city. One son has been born to the union of Judge and Mrs. Rose, Robley,
born July 13, 1894, now a student in the Louisville high school.
Extracted 11 Nov 2018 by Norma Hass from 1912 History of Southern Illinois, by George W. Smith, volume 3, pages 1535-1536.
