Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Wednesday's Wonderful Collection - Rose family papers SMC.15.4

Judge Uriah Milton (U.M.) Rose was a nationally known lawyer. Born in Kentucky in 1834, he attended the Transylvania Law School in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated in 1853 at the age of nineteen. In the same year he married Margaret T. Gibbs. They moved to Batesville, Arkansas, where U.M. began his law practice. In 1865 Governor Elias Conway appointed Rose Chancellor of Pulaski County. Moving to Little Rock, Arkansas, he started a law partnership that became the Rose Law Firm. He was the only attorney from Arkansas asked to help organize the American Bar Association in 1878, and was elected president in 1901. At his suggestion Arkansas attorneys founded the Arkansas Bar Association in 1882. He was asked by President Theodore Roosevelt to attend the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 as Ambassador. Uriah Milton Rose's statue stands in the United States Capitol in Statuary Hall located in Washington, District of Columbia. Rose died August 12, 1913, and is buried in the Mount Holly Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas.

George B. Rose was born in Batesville, Arkansas, July 10, 1860, the son of Uriah M. and Margaret T. Gibbs Rose. In 1865 George moved with his family to Little Rock. He received his education at St. John's College in Little Rock, studied law under his father, and was admitted to the bar in 1879. In 1881, he went into partnership with his father. In 1893, W.E. Hemingway joined the firm creating the Rose, Hemingway, Rose Law firm.

On May 2, 1882, George Rose married Marion Kimball, the daughter of Judge Eben W. Kimball and Mary Frye Kimball. Marion was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and moved with her family to Little Rock in 1874, where she finished high school. She graduated from Wellesley College. George and Marion had two children, a daughter who died in infancy, and a son Clarence.

George B. Rose was a prominent lawyer and art critic. He authored "Renaissance Masters" and "The World's Leading Painters." He was a member of the Arkansas Bar Association (president in 1902), the American Bar Association, American Law Institute, Board of Directors of the Little Rock Public Library, and Board of Trustees of the Little Rock Museum of Fine Arts.
This collection contains the correspondence, legal papers, receipts, and miscellaneous documents of the Rose family of Arkansas.

  • Correspondence (Reel MG00208)
    • 1. 1921 May 23: George B. Rose to Mrs. Lewis H. Rose, Fayetteville, Arkansas
    • 2. 1930 March 19: C.H. Richter, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Marion Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas
    • 3. 1935 February 23: Raymond L. Davis, Little Rock, Arkansas, to Marion G. Rose, Little Rock, Arkansas
    • 4. Undated: M.T. Rose to "My Dear Son"
  • Legal
    • 5. 1903 January 9: Will, Margaret T. Rose
    • 6. 1913 September 11: Appointment, Margaret T. Rose, executrix of last will and testament of U.M. Rose
    • 7. 1915 March 5: Memorandum of agreement, Margaret T. Rose and F.W. Ruckstuhl
    • 8. 1922 October 16: Directive, Margaret T. Rose to Union and Mercantile Trust Company
  • 9. 1892 June 29: Receipt, A.D. Beach to U.M. Rose
  • 10. 1913 September 11: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to John M. Rose
  • Receipts, Ida J. Brown to Margaret T. Rose
    • 11. 1916 April 1
    • 12. 1916 May 1
    • 13. 1916 June 1
    • 14. 1916 July 1
    • 15. 1916 August 1
    • 16. 1916 September 1
    • 17. 1916 October 1
    • 18. 1916 November 1
    • 19. 1916 December 1
    • 20. 1917 January 1
    • 21. 1917 February 1
    • 22. 1917 March 1
    • 23. 1917 April 1
    • 24. 1917 May 1
    • 25. 1917 June 1
    • 26. 1917 July 1
    • 27. 1917 August 1
    • 28. 1917 September 1
    • 29. 1917 October 1
    • 30. 1917 November 1
    • 31. 1917 December 1
    • 32. 1918 February 1
    • 33. 1918 March 1
    • 34. 1918 April 1
    • 35. 1918 May 1
    • 36. 1918 June 1
    • 37. 1918 July 1
    • 38. 1918 August 1
    • 39. 1918 September 1
    • 40. 1918 October 1
    • 41. 1918 November 1
    • 42. 1918 December 1
  • 43. 1919 August 4: Promissory note, Lillie M. Rose to Margaret T. Rose
  • 44. 1919 October 11: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to William M. Rose
  • 45. 1920 May: Receipt, Lillie M. Rose, John M. Rose, N.D. Rose, and Will N. Rose, to Margaret T. Rose
  • 46. 1920 September 24: Receipt, Lillie M. Rose, John M. Rose, Jr., N.D. Rose, and Will N. Rose, to Margaret T. Rose
  • 47. 1923 February 20: Advance, Margaret T. Rose to John M. Rose, for use of W.N. Rose
  • 48. 1923 June 18: Receipt, John M. Rose, Lillie M. Rose, and N.D. Rose to Margaret T. Rose
  • 49. 1923 March 3: Advances, to heirs of John M. Rose
  • 50. 1934 August 13: Receipt, John F. Clark and Company to Marion Rose
  • 51. 1934 September 10: Receipt, Justin Matthews to Marion Rose
  • 52. Undated: Receipt, estate of U.M. Rose to G.B. Rose
  • Tax receipts
    • 53. 1913 March 4
    • 54. 1914 March 7
    • 55. 1915 March 26
    • 56. 1916
    • 57. 1917 March 23
    • 58. 1917 May 8
    • 59. 1918 April 10
    • 60. 1920 March 20
    • 61. 1921 April 9
    • 62. 1922
    • 63. 1922 April 10
    • 64. 1923 March 1
    • 65. 1924 March 27
    • 66. 1925 March 27
    • 67. 1926 March 13
    • 68. 1926 April 10
    • 69. 1927 April 9
    • 70. 1928 April 10
    • 71. 1929 April 10
    • 72. 1930 March 28
    • 73. 1931 March 20
    • 74. 1932 April 9
    • 75. 1932 November 1
    • 76. 1935 April 15
  • Miscellaneous
    • 77. 1888 March 9: Stock certificate, U.M. Rose, The Children's Home Association of Little Rock, Arkansas
    • 78. 1917 December 1: Stock certificate, Mrs. M.T. Rose, Army Post Development Company, Little Rock, Arkansas
    • 79. 1922 February 27: Fragment
    • 80. 1934 December 1: Foreclosure of estate of Marion Rose, Union Trust Company