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George I. Rose, son of Samuel D. and Mary A. (Smith) Rose, natives of Ohio and Kentucky, was born in Little Rock on September 26, 1826. Mr. Samuel D. Rose emigrated from Ohio to Arkansas, and settled on a farm in Pulaski County, near Little Rock, in 1820. He was a carpenter by trade, and worked on the first State house. He died in 1839, his wife surviving him some four years, and left a family of four boys, one of whom was killed by a bear when thirteen years old. George, our subject, followed the life of a hunter for a number of years. He was a soldier in the Mexican War, and fought in the battle of Buena Vista and a number of skirmishes. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate service, as a member of an independent company; he was also first lieutenant in Capt. Reynold’s spy company, belonging to Col. Monroe’s regiment of the First Arkansas, in which he served until the war closed. After this he returned to his farm, which he bought in 1853, and on which he now lives, and again took up the occupation of hunting, which he followed for several years. He was first married March 4, 1852, to Mary Ann Hudgins, who died September 8, 1876, and who was the mother of one daughter, George Ann (who is now married). Mr. Rose married his second and present wife August 7, 1878, Victoria Bird, a native of Georgia, and a daughter of Nathan and Eliza Bird. He owns a fine farm of 290 acres, 120 of which are under cultivation, with a good double log-house, stables, etc. He and wife are members of the Baptist Church.