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lature. He was severely injured in the Johnstown flood, in 1889. In 1890 he was elected mayor of Johnstown. When he retired from office in 1893 he left an orderly city in good physical and sanitary condition.
In 1883 Mr. Rose was appointed by the governor of the state as a member of the commission to select a site for feeble minded children of Western Pennsylvania. This institution was erected n Polk, Pa. On May 31, 1889, he was elected a director of the First Nation Bank. In March, 1895, he was elected a trustee of the Johnstown Savings & Loan Company. He was president of the board of directors. He was one of the first men to become a member of the Loyal Legion, a military order of the United States. He was one of the oldest Masons in Johnstown, originally being a member of Cambria Lodge, No. 278. He was worshipful master of the lodge for 55 years. He was one of the charter members of Johnstown Lodge No. 538 and served as worshipful master, Portage Royal Arch Chapter, No. 195, past high priest. In October, 1883, Mr. Rose helped organize Oriental commandery No. 61, K. T., and was its first eminent commander. He was a charter member of Cambria Council No. 32, Royal and Select Master Masons. He was one of the fifty original incorporators of the Grand View Cemetery. He was one of the original fifty incorporators of the Conemaugh Valley Hospital. He was for a long time on the board of directors of the Johnstown Water Company. He died Dec. 19, 1913, and his wife died in March, 1921. Both are buried in Grand View Cemetery, Johnstown. To this union four sons and one daughter were born: Horace R. Rose, attorney; Forest Rose, attorney; Percy Allen Rose, the subject of this sketch; Winter Rose; and June, married S. J. McClune. Mrs. W. Horace Rose was prominent in social circles and belong to many societies in Johnstown.
After attending the public schools of Johnstown, Percy Allen Rose attended Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H. He was then a student at Cascadilla School, Ithaca, N. Y., there preparing for Hamilton College of Law. He was admitted to the bar of Cambria County in 1899 and the same year because associated with his brother, Forest Rose, under the firm name of Forest and Percy Allen Rose. He is a member of the Federal and Superior courts.
Mr. Rose is a lover of horses and with his brother owns a 1,263 acre farm, "Ben Dover," near Richmond, Va. He also owns another farm of
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