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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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I guess it all started when my dad immigrated to this country from Brazil as a young boy in this early teens my grand mother sent him to the United States with only a birdcage and a suitcase and a note into his lapel telling the reader where he should be sent when he arrived here you see he could only speak Portuguese and coming to a strange company it was a very hard time for him he was quite bacon at the awkward stage and a young boy’s life my grandmother was very strong willed woman and after years of medical and physical abuse with my grandfather in Portugal she decide to go to receive a Brazil and live is where my dad was born and where they made their home for about 13 years or so being where the people spoke the same language made it a little easier for my dad and his mother she left much of her wealth in Portugal when she left my grandfather as her family on many acres of farmland etc. which my grandfather in a drunken rage would make her sign over to him for his money vases it was after one of the many meetings that she received his hand so she finally decided to leave and start a new life by herself and my dad.
when my dad‘s boat arrived in Boston pier harbor since he cannot speak no English a police officer from the north end of Boston took him to a Portuguese barber who is called upon to translate what my father would tell him the new on his lapel told of where his master could be reaching where to send him with his vacation toe and it’s only suitcase he was put on a bus to Dayton MA where his master is waiting for him he was to work on a fireman earn his room and board and intern they provide him with schooling and clothes
he was placed in the second grade of school where the kids used to make fun of him because of his size he couldn’t put his knees under the desk he was so large at times he was at the desk right off the floor screws and all many of the teachers would get aggravated at us and lost patience with him it’s on top of the kids making fun of him and teasing him for all the time and taking his hat and running away it was a frustrating time for dad at times they would throw his hat over a small cliff or he would have to climb down risking his life to get it the older boys also would beat him up and he on many occasions would go home with a bloody nose boys can be very cruel to other boys when they are not like them and don’t speak their language it’s hard for them to understand how my dad felt all the time
for recreation my dad and his friends would play with the iron barrels that came off the boats loaded with blubber from the wells they caught one day while he was playing with his friends they rolled him off a 20 foot cliff by the water and the Coast Guard had to come to rescue before the tide came in or he would’ve drowned
as he went to the older grades the children got bigger and became more resentful of him by the time he was getting stronger and stronger from all the hard work he did on his masters farm he would lift the barrels over his head and build up his muscles. The iron barrels were used by the wailers store blower oil which was used to burn lanterns he became more confident as he got stronger and would wrestle anyone to the ground he would cut occasionally get beaten up but all in all he try to hold his own his master had no sympathy for him when he did get her he was still apply to do his work on the farm his chores were many these were very lonely times for my dad he felt so alone and I haven’t seen that no one cared about him or his problems this is surely a place to inject that tough times never last tough people to my dad was one of the tough people and he had faith in him self
there was one time on his way home from school that my dad was stopped by three men who beat him up very badly he didn’t even know why the police patrol found him on the beach after his master and reported him missing he spent three days in the hospital and by this time he was getting very disgusted with America and the life he had here he decided to turn his life around then and there so when he got out of the hospital he started taking boxing lessons this wasn’t easy to find the time to do this so he would arise at 5:30 AM and go take his lessons from the Portuguese man who lives nearby and then go do his chores before going to school and be on his way he felt better about himself at this point in time and one day coming home from school he saw the same three men who would be in him up earlier and put them in the hospital he followed them and as it was getting darker they split up and when they were only two of them he caught their bear face and. he was so late it after doing this and satisfied himself that he thought it was the first time that he didn’t get the short end of the stick America is going to look better and better to him he continue taking boxing lessons in became quite good at it he loves school and he was in the fifth grade and besides working on his masters farm he helped load roll the drums of love or oil onto the beach where they would be loaded on the horse and buggy teams the boiler sometime so the barrels to the hardware stores nearby after dark when they wouldn’t be seen this was illegal.
One day on the way home from school three men stop my dad and them up very badly he didn’t even know why the police patrol found them on the beach after his mastered reported that he didn’t get home to work in the fields to pick the strawberries or take the potatoes he spent three days in the hospital by this time he was getting very disgusted with American his life here he started going to a boxing club that was near his masters house he would arrive at 5:30 AM and go take lessons from Portuguese man he liked him he learned how to defend himself there on one special day coming home from school he saw the same three men who would be in them up a few months earlier he waited just before dark and it’s better now they were only two of them with his bare hands my father got even with them he was so later that he would accomplish this and made a very satisfied it was the first time since he arrived here in America that he didn’t get the short end of the stick and he be the two of them he continue taking boxing lessons for three years and then left school in the fifth grade he would earn money helping roll the drums of love royal onto the beach where they were to will turn them to the horse and buggy teams.
Another incident that is where they have now is one time with my dad claimed over a cliff to get Eagles eggs which she was totaled bring a good amount of money and then put a rope over the cliff and let my father down to nest after retrieving about six or seven eggs one of the guys he previously picking up came by and without anyone knowing he cut the rope and my dad fell down to the rocks in the waters edge 20 people he broken arm and a leg another time while training he was holding onto a windmill blade and a glass of wine threw him to the ground and he broke his nose and are the Coast Guard with someone once again to rescue him from his fall off the cliff shortly after this his mother right here from Brazil and took charge of him he continued his boxing and became pretty good at it. he had an important fight scheduled for the Boston garden when he met and married my mother Anna Suzanne from the north of Boston they got married in the Portuguese church on Portland Street and it Cambridge East Cambridge where they settled my fathers boxing should promise in a big fight was promoted for him at the garden by the time my mother is about to give birth to my oldest sister Anna and wasn’t doing very good so my dad wouldn’t leave her side and the fight was forfeited he was barred from the ring and never thought again he worked hard without education to bring up eight children for boys and four girls not to mention taking into adopted children one time and then two more adopted children whose mother had died and they were close to my mother we also had my uncle living with us for a while my father had a heart of gold and so did my mother
we were 14 and all sitting down at the table and not much money coming in at the time we all survive the one way or another I can remember my grandmother making sheets out of the empty flower bag she got from Paula‘s bakery which was across the street from where we lived she would wash them out by hand and on a wash board in the sink and then set them out to dry after about four washings they would be soft enough for us to sleep on and sometimes there’s enough flour left in the sacks to make homemade bread and we sure look towards this we would put butter on it and have it with coffee or cocoa and sometimes we eat bananas with it
Mini time I can remember going to the railroad yard after school with a two wheel truck that my dad had made me to pick up Cole along the tracks I had fallen off the trains we swept the floor by a potbelly stove in the parlor and the school help to keep it going and keep us warm weather outside would be about three below zero and they would be 2 feet of snow outside my mother always had a big pan on the stove cooking a shoulder or ham there are plenty of vegetables in Portuguese kale and sausages my brothers and sisters all earned a little to help out the food situation at home no one went beyond high school education wise we didn’t have a lot of money but we had a set of parents who loved us tremendously we always came first with them
our parents sacrifice an off a lot of themselves make us happy the older ones kind of looked after us younger ones eaten a family and six others to feed was no easy task in those days without food and housing as it were
sickness in the house would be a catastrophe it would disrupt the whole household especially if dad or mother got sick but we survived at all and we came through strong and able to face I need to feed handed down to us in later life like a season sold or you learned thank the good Lord from day today and you learn to roll with the punches
what our families need today is to have hardship and then they try harder to better yourself by working more productively and you also learn the value of the book you remember the hard times and you spend accordingly you certainly do not wanna live your past over again you want to accomplish something so your parents will be proud of you knowing they sacrifice so much for you when you were young
things are bad at home although our monthly rent was only $30 that was hard for my father to me at Cambridge rubber company where my dad worked move down south and he was out of a job the company could operate their business cheaper down south
One of the things I did to help out at home moneywise was to sell newspapers after and before school I also sold bottled but like whiskey the papers I would pick up on third and Otis St., Berks candy store this would pay me one sent a paper two days a week I would go to Wanda’s café to pick up about 10 bottles half pints and pint of whiskey we called it bathtub rum and I would have to go to the rear of the café to pick it up in my little car that I would put under my papers and sell them to people on my paper and couldn’t get out the house I was I would receive $.25 for half pint and $.50 per pint and will get two cents back on the empties of which I received one cent I would deliver to the courthouse judges quarters and leave the whiskey with the secretary or janitor and sometimes get paid later the shares house was also a delivery spot as he lived across from the courthouse his cock was a good customer and will take 3 pints twice a week this is my big sale every week
One of the things I did to help out at home moneywise was to sell newspapers after and before school I also sold bottled but like whiskey the papers I would pick up on third and Otis St., Berks candy store this would pay me one sent a paper two days a week I would go to Wanda’s café to pick up about 10 bottles half pints and pint of whiskey we called it bathtub rum and I would have to go to the rear of the café to pick it up in my little car that I would put under my papers and sell them to people on my paper and couldn’t get out the house I was I would receive $.25 for half pint and $.50 per pint and will get two cents back on the empties of which I received one cent I would deliver to the courthouse judges quarters and leave the whiskey with the secretary or janitor and sometimes get paid later the shares house was also a delivery spot as he lived across from the courthouse his cock was a good customer and will take 3 pints twice a week this is my big sale every week
after this period of my life I got interesting in basketball and sports and give up the bootlegging and paper route I got a license to drive at 16 to I was captain of her basketball team each year and also the smallest player scored the most points for the three years that I was in school of all the weeks there was a boy name smoky from the Robert school who we always ended up playing in the finals on our team we had sent a red Callaway the tallest right card Joe Almeida let’s guard Tony Paiva left forward and Rivera or Cosmo Danito then Jesse Rogers Ralph’s for a Connie and Benny Spira were managers Horace Jake up was principal for school and Jerry Higgins was a seventh grade teacher he was also the coach I was written up in the papers all the time and the coach from wrench tech came to my house to see my parents and try to get them sent me to the school they guaranteed me a scholarship to almost any college that I could play basketball for them my grades in school weren’t that good at graduation they put me in in the central vocational School for one year I played basketball for school and the coach them and she said come down to the gym to watch me and talk to me about having good grades so I could go to his school
I went one year to vocational school and then transfer to wrench to Chi school where I made the varsity squad in my first year as a freshman this was somewhat of a fee and we went into the tractor tourney that year and I was riding high while playing basketball on the eighth grade at the Putnam school we had this team that played in the park department league of the city four of us from our school at the time we were champions and three others in the neighborhood when the city championship and how to play the new team who are also champs in their city I’ll never forget when we went to pay them a new one who’s the first three out of five games for the championship they had a beautiful new school gym and they came out with at least five basketballs they were sponsored by people with money and beautiful outfits they were new sneakers and warm-up suit and all the fringes they also cheerleaders and oranges to get a break towels and all the trimmings they really look like big dick on the other hand we were dress very raggedy dirty sneakers torn pan some of us even had string holding them up a couple of warm towels and two old basketballs I went one year to vocational school and then transfer to wrench to Chi school where I made the varsity squad in my first year as a freshman this was somewhat of a fee and we went into the tractor tourney that year and I was riding high while playing basketball on the eighth grade at the Putnam school we had this team that played in the park department league of the city four of us from our school at the time we were champions and three others in the neighborhood when the city championship and how to play the new team who are also champs in their city I’ll never forget when we went to pay them a new one who’s the first three out of five games for the championship they had a beautiful new school gym and they came out with at least five basketballs they were sponsored by people with money and beautiful outfits they were new sneakers and warm-up suit and all the fringes they also cheerleaders and oranges to get a break towels and all the trimmings they really look like big dick on the other hand we were dress very raggedy dirty sneakers torn pan some of us even had string holding them up a couple of warm towels and two old basketballs we didn’t feel very good about it as we knew people were laughing at us but we got into our huddle party started and said our usual prayer and encourage each other not to let their luxe fool us we can beat them we said they’re a bunch of pansies we hit them hard and made a couple files but we let them know we were around I was a captain and give the boys my usual peptalk or coach that we could do it just go out there and play basketball I think I got something like 26 points for the game I wanted to beat them so bad we ran circles around them in the final score was 66 to 45 I think we beat them so bad that in the end they were embarrassed not us the shirt is a vivid memory in my mind
I quit school and went into the cc cc my dad was on the PWA and I couldn’t afford to go to school any longer I had to walk about 2 miles each day just to go to school and another 2 miles to come home the coach begged me to stay in school but I had made up my mind to go to the service and go out to Powell Wyoming this will help my parents out and pay the rent to keep our three family house on 3rd St., Cambridge the adventure of going into the cc was also there for me and I even forge my age to get in I was a little under age at the time.
I received a check for $30.00 each month and assigned this to my parents. It at least, paid the rent. I attained the rank of Corporal and would then receive $36 per month. After that, they made me Sgt. at $45.00 per month. I kept sending the $30. allotment home and the balance was kept with me at camp. $15 I spent as I saw fit and I also made a few dollars on Saturday nights by boxing downtown at the American Legion Hall.
I could make $50 on Saturday night and get a blackeye or swollen leg but I managed to save a few bucks sometimes I would bet on myself I tried very hard for this my captain was a fight freak he liked me and a couple of other fighters and encouraged us it was nice to give orders a surgeon no one gave me any backtalk they knew I could handle myself one Saturday night I received a pretty good whipping from a local boy in the fight was a draw but I got my $50 anyway after this I never thought again I thought it was pretty good looking and I didn’t want to mess up my face it seemed ironic that my father father because he was not an American and at the time I was fighting it was because I was an American in the army barracks we were controlled by army officers lived barracks and wore khaki uniforms
The towns people didn’t like us that much it was also survival of the fittest the money also played a major part life is funny that way I gained respect in town and it helped our camp a lot of people seem to like me after a while and our camp did a lot of good for the towns people we did a lot of fundraising for them also
I came home two years later and looking back I think that this was the best thing I ever did joining the cc he got me right at the time I was into stealing cars at Boston Garden and selling them for bucks we would sell fog lights for five dollars or $10 a set breaking into cookie factory on front Street I also still radio some cars in Cary number slips for the buggies in both numbers for people in the north end I was getting in with a bad element when I went away and was fortunate that I was never caught I can’t help but think back at the age of about nine I would get up at 5:30 AM and go over to louisville Plaza gon’s five houses away from where I lived in a three family house Paula bakery was on the corner of our street and I used to go get the horse at the barn feed him out and then hook them up to the team give him water Comes Main in Mall they’re loading the team with the fresh Portuguese bread I will get $.25 a day for doing this then I would start my paper route
I did well on my paper route also selling the whiskey and picking up the returned bottles I had a compartment under my papers for that stuff and delivered it only in the wee hours of the morning
Joe Lopez whose mother and father of my godparents Luis Lopez on the barn where Joe archer pretty kept his horse and where Paula boarded his horse and team the old man my godfather Luis Lopez was a furniture mover with his horse and team are used to go with him sometimes in the summer to take chunks to the ships people going to Portugal or Island Ireland etc. I like to go with him at 6 PM the people in the ships are nice to us they would give us food to eat that we never tasted before and some fish to take home also young Tony Lopez worked at the courthouse he drove a pick up truck for the county maintenance department he liked me and was always ready to do anything he could for me he had keys for every office and I can leave my papers in the little bottles for judges etc. he was well liked at the courthouse and could do anything that he wanted to he was also very honest and religious he got me the job at the Institute movies through father Flaherty the priest from the Sacred Heart church who owned the show.
Joe Lopez was Tony Lopez’s brother he was always drunk and worked for the city of Cambridge on the street department rolling out barrels rubbish I was the only one he would pay any attention to he liked me because I was tough if he was in a fight I would stop him and take him home he was always being locked up by the Cambridge police for one thing or another fighting mostly huge fight with anyone he was a look-alike for Wallace berry one day it took five policeman to put him into the patty wagon as we called it he was handcuffed and beat up so badly they had to call the ambulance to take him to the hospital I kicked and punched a police man I was crying the police man give me a shovel and I landed on my fanny and didn’t get up about 10 minutes Joe saw me crying and that started him off again while he lay there in a puddle of blood waiting for an ambulance with five cop standing over him with handcuffs twisters on both wrists and they were bleeding badly I have never forgotten the side of the corner of third and Spring Street by the old courthouse and the police box was on the pole two doors down with Joe Lopez brother Manuel Lopez and his wife Agnes use the box with my dad at the training camp they had in the north end of Boston
When I got my license to drive a contact with the book is in the north end they trusted me and give me an address where to pick up certain people and take them to the table games card and dice games already given an address for the games will be held and I was the only one who knew that that was because if they were ever read it by the police no one would rob the games I was trusted by the boys in town as long as I was I could get five dollars for delivery and five dollars for pick up I was asked to get involved in a credit card cashing in other schemes but always refused my poor dad was on the PWA administration making $27 a week eight hours a day 40 hours a week I was making more money than him with my little schemes I would carry slips on my person that were written up by the book is the slips range from one cent five dollars sometimes I have cash of three dollars for four dollars and I would have a slips duplicated the customer also had a copy of what number they played for the day the number will come out of the race track meets phone number track meets ph When I got my license to drive a contact with the book is in the north end they trusted me and give me an address where to pick up certain people and take them to the table games card and dice games already given an address for the games will be held and I was the only one who knew that that was because if they were ever read it by the police no one would rob the games I was trusted by the boys in town as long as I was I could get five dollars for delivery and five dollars for pick up I was asked to get involved in a credit card cashing in other schemes but always refused my poor dad was on the PWA administration making $27 a week eight hours a day 40 hours a week I was making more money than him with my little schemes I would carry slips on my person that were written up by the book is the slips range from one cent five dollars sometimes I have cash of three dollars for four dollars and I would have a slips duplicated the customer also had a copy of what number they played for the day the number will come out of the race track Mutual number of three and four digits the person who played would get six dollars for every one dollar they pay anywhere from one cent on three numbers to any amount in for numbers also if someone got a good hair I would get a five dollar bill from them I could run like hell so I’d ride in the car with the pick up man who would pick up cash and slips in the buggies if we were stopped by the police five please I was a takeoff on foot with the slips on my person and find my way to Prince Street third-floor in Boston where we turn the men that was an extra bonus when this happened the police were old and fat and had my none of them could catch me I would go into apartment houses over roofs and had my getaway routes marked days before four or five times I have some close calls but I never got caught don’t think the police ever really tried that hard they would see me at other times and threaten to kick my ass but they really weren’t that forceful I guess they play the numbers and selves and didn’t feel it was doing much harm to the neighborhood only around election time were the politicians making noise about gambling.
Today we are almost doing the same thing with her lottery games only in the states get the profit and it is legal now millions of dollars are going into the state treasury department I know because I worked for the lottery picking up the slips the stores in my own vehicles I lost it for about six months and couldn’t hack it anymore getting in and out of my car my back bothered me so much so I resigned it seems ironic that I was doing the same thing for the state legally that was I was doing years ago illegally boy does time in politics make a difference the state took the Buckys gaming away but replace it with her own that’s OK though
Now it seems clear found out that my nephew Ronnie rose my brother son Eddie is in California he left his wife Mary when is three boys Ronnie Eddie and Jackie were small I hope his wife Mary whenever I could to help bring up the kids Ronnie was the oldest and he had a pilots license to fly a plane anyway it seems cliff and Josie got involved with the connection in Columbia cliff and Joe went over there and came back and took Ronnie over to Columbia to pilot a route to bring some stuff into the US to Florida it seems they made the drop from the plane they were to pick the stuff up on a small island so I had to pick the stuff up before them when they got there with the big boat that was assigned to them by the people from Argentina the stuff was already picked up so close blame Joe and Joe blamed Ronnie Ronnie figured it was close friends so they were fighting amongst themselves one night Ronnie called me and said Cliff wanted to meet him in East Boston at a certain garage that was connected with the big boys in Boston in New England it seems that Clift you some of the money for the operation and they wanted to find out Now it seems clear found out that my nephew Ronnie rose my brother son Eddie is in California he left his wife Mary when is three boys Ronnie Eddie and Jackie were small I hope his wife Mary whenever I could to help bring up the kids Ronnie was the oldest and he had a pilots license to fly a plane anyway it seems cliff and Josie got involved with the connection in Columbia cliff and Joe went over there and came back and took Ronnie over to Columbia to pilot a route to bring some stuff into the US to Florida it seems they made the drop from the plane they were to pick the stuff up on a small island so I had to pick the stuff up before them when they got there with the big boat that was assigned to them by the people from Argentina the stuff was already picked up so close blame Joe and Joe blamed Ronnie Ronnie figured it was close friends so they were fighting amongst themselves one night Ronnie called me and said Cliff wanted to meet him in East Boston at a certain garage that was connected with the big boys in Boston in New England it seems that Clift you some of the money for the operation and they wanted to find out Who is lying maybe get a bullet as well Ronnie knew I had a lot of friends and his boss and also all the big guys in town because I used to know them well and had friends in high places in the underworld I picked up numbers in my earlier days Ronnie and I were to meet Cliff over there at about 8 PM we didn’t know that Joe castrato was going to be there also anyway Ronnie and I pulled up across the street from the garage and Cliff pulled up behind us with another fellow a little short kid sullivan I guess he knew me also I was on the left driver side Ronnie close the sidewalk when I saw Cliff pull up behind me and his caddy he got out as soon as I stopped I got out walked back to him and I saw that he had a handgun he said I’m going to kill a little bastard and started across the rear of my car towards Ronnie who’s just about to get out of the car I had it cliff off and grab the hand with a gun and swing him around and had his face on the back trunk of my car and his other hand not the one with a gun bent up and back of him and he was pending couldn’t move I stayed down Ronnie He’s gone hand is still free against the back window but in an awkward position I said what the hell is the matter with you Cliff he said the little bastard fingered the job I said I found out who did it at this moment I would’ve told Cliff anything else across the street and my friend at the garage with a shotgun with two policeman slow down and we’re about to stop when I said it’s OK fellows they are friends of mine in the cruiser just kept on going I said Cliff get into my car first and first then I said Ron you get in also click on the backseat right in front with me driving cliff walk to run in the back of the head more of a slap in a punch he said to me you are strong little bastard I said what’s wrong with you because it ain’t worth going to jail for life when you don’t even know the whole truth of what happened we pulled away and stopped at the road where we were alone his car followed and Josie followed along behind him I said OK Ryan let me hear your story then we will hear yours Cliff he said He’s gone hand is still free against the back window but in an awkward position I said what the hell is the matter with you Cliff he said the little bastard fingered the job I said I found out who did it at this moment I would’ve told Cliff anything else across the street and my friend at the garage with a shotgun with two policeman slow down and we’re about to stop when I said it’s OK fellows they are friends of mine in the cruiser just kept on going I said Cliff get into my car first and first then I said Ron you get in also click on the backseat right in front with me driving cliff walk to run in the back of the head more of a slap in a punch he said to me you are strong little bastard I said what’s wrong with you because it ain’t worth going to jail for life when you don’t even know the whole truth of what happened we pulled away and stopped at the road where we were alone his car followed and Josie followed along behind him I said OK Ryan let me hear your story then we will hear yours Cliff he said OK cousin no one else could do this to me only you because I love and respect you I said promise me you’ll behave yourself and let him finish his story of what he knows happened I said I can’t understand how you guys got tied up in the shit anyway do you know the harm that dope does to a lot of nice families OK Ryan let’s hear what your story is I kept her in his truck because I knew there would be a blow up close kept interrupting wrong but I will shut him up and then listen to Cliff and I said my piece and told him what I knew about the whole deal after talking to Ron Josie and the boys in town and who I thought and they knew the right story I promise class at the boys really knew what had happened and that they were in the clear it was because of Josie’s friendship with the fellow who is served with in jail that they got drunk together one night and Joe trusted him a little too much he evidentially had made a couple of scores
with the fellow interested him on this job that Cliff Joe and Ron we’re going on drinking together with friends makes loose lips as we say in the service loose lips sink ships anyway Cliff felt relieved that he was off the hook with the boys he sponsored him he said I never knew you were in good with so many people he and Ronnie talked but I want to talk with Joe and he still had his gun right beside him he said he knew cliffy and that was why he brought it with him I told him the whole story he wouldn’t talk to Cliff he said just tell Cliff to stay away for me and I will him as long as we know the whole story and the boys in town are looking for us I assured him of that cliff hugged me and said thanks Cuz I appreciate all you’ve done in this I said you I could’ve gone to jail I had your gun on me and the cops are going to stop he said he was sorry and we all left
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Immigrants
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Boxing
Portuguese American women
Paperboys
Basketball teams
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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in about 1950 my dad came to my house in East Cambridge and asked me to put a friend of his to work he had just come from Portugal I had working for me at the time read Warren from the west end of Boston we had four children two boys and two girls he was a Navy veteran and was married twice Franny Warren was his wife and she was a hard worker she used to clean houses for a living he was abuser but was a very good worker he liked his beer every day but not enough to hinder him and his work he and his wife are always fighting I loaned him some money for a cheap truck which he would use in the business and take his wife and kids to the beach in New Hampshire on weekends Joe Warren was a smart fellow and carried out my orders the letter he drove my big brothers trucks for eight years he worked with Hank met from up in the house he chewed tobacco and tied flies for fishing he love to fish major war and my foreman Joe Amaral the Portuguese my dad‘s friend and Frank Lopardo my partner And myself took on all kinds of jobs especially the way acid from the welding from EB badgers in East Cambridge he would pick up eight barrels per week they had to be wasted on the truck or lifted by a front and loader we could get filthy with the white wash as we called it sometimes it’s spot on the street on the way to the Cambridge city dump in the place we get on my case but being politically oriented and knowing the police captain and Alva Lucci the mayor of the city and wrote make Minneman the PWD commissioner they would be good to me and send out the City water sweeper to clean up the white wash Hank Maya had a wife and seven kids he was a real heck from the sticks and his kids were also he’s only gone to the third grade in school and couldn’t read or write that he was one of my best workers
Joe Emmanuel was a white man and had a good business in Portugal and could not speak a word of English he on a link Wiese and Teresa business in Portugal now he married a colored woman name Eva who is a lovely lady with three children they were very late and worked in factories in the area she shops etc. her oldest daughter was very attractive and graduated from Cambridge high in line the only colored girl in East Cambridge at the time but she got along with everyone I was also a nice person well liked by her friends Joe Amaral was kind of look down on by the Portuguese people and others who live in the neighborhood for a living within marrying a colored woman I even had trouble with some of the people I dealt with who didn’t like the idea that he was married to a black person had a couple of fist fight about this because this is not right this is America and Evan has a right to race color creed and this is a democracy these people were human beings and where as good as anyone I knew I visited them often and appreciated me not only being his boss but I was there friend I got the girl Joe Emmanuel was a white man and had a good business in Portugal and could not speak a word of English he on a link Wiese and Teresa business in Portugal now he married a colored woman name Eva who is a lovely lady with three children they were very late and worked in factories in the area she shops etc. her oldest daughter was very attractive and graduated from Cambridge high in line the only colored girl in East Cambridge at the time but she got along with everyone I was also a nice person well liked by her friends Joe Amaral was kind of look down on by the Portuguese people and others who live in the neighborhood for a living within marrying a colored woman I even had trouble with some of the people I dealt with who didn’t like the idea that he was married to a black person had a couple of fist fight about this because this is not right this is America and Evan has a right to race color creed and this is a democracy these people were human beings and where as good as anyone I knew I visited them often and appreciated me not only being his boss but I was there friend I got the girl A job at the Harvard coopy store in Harvard University at Harvard Square, Cambridge where this changed her whole life she had one child and she came separated and later divorced from her husband Richard deck they had a beautiful boy who was very late the father was white and the mother as black but mulatto she had another brother who is in the house all the time because the kids in the neighborhood were hard on him just because Eva his mother had been married before to a white man also and he was kind of white with a dark sister and dark mother kids can be cruel when he was 18 I got him a job he went to years to Ranch Tech high school I got him a job through Senator Mike Lopresti from East Boston in is Cambridge we got him a job at the BNN railroad so he could work nights sleep days with the kids in the neighborhood wanna bother him himA job at the Harvard coopy store in Harvard University at Harvard Square, Cambridge where this changed her whole life she had one child and she came separated and later divorced from her husband Richard deck they had a beautiful boy who was very late the father was white and the mother as black but mulatto she had another brother who is in the house all the time because the kids in the neighborhood were hard on him just because Eva his mother had been married before to a white man also and he was kind of white with a dark sister and dark mother kids can be cruel when he was 18 I got him a job he went to years to Ranch Tech high school I got him a job through Senator Mike Lopresti from East Boston in East Cambridge we got him a job at the BNN railroad so he could work nights and sleep days with the kids in the neighborhood wanna bother him but with my protection people who knew me and my reputation of doing a lot of favors the young and old respected me and excepted anyone I associated with some of the wise guys in the bar rooms who gave Bobby a hard time had to deal with me and I could take care of myself he was beat up one night but I caught up with the two guys who hit him my cousin Cliff and I straighten them out at the closing of the Tremont café bar after 12 PM
I just got the drift and didn’t bother this kid anymore are used to take them to softball games with me I sponsor league team and bought play outfield with another color boy from Central Square a Cambridge portuguese Luis Lopez he was real black and also the fan name smoky you paid for my team Rosa disposal service team that was a good player and gain respect along with Luis Lopez and smoky my friends like them after the games I will take them to a bar and have pizza and beer and have an excepted him as my friends I also had a colored follow working for me named Ricky he lived in the Roosevelt towers these were only about three black families in the whole project but because of me I got them in through all the Lucci the mayor and Walter sullivan Ricky drove my truck and worked with Hank my app but my customers respected them talk about prejudice we had it all right man and I didn’t like the way the blacks are being treated for my dad when I was small bringing a black man into our house for supper a few times these men worked with him at the Cambridge River company on Windsor and Main St., Cambridge my dad had some black friends from the boot rubber company and I was a little put back the first time I saw one in my home especially sitting down to eat with us I love my mother and father for bringing me up not to be prejudice as we were all created equal I got Louisville has a job at words bakery company catching bread off the boat and packing the boxes a job at that I had done before I started fishing barrels when I got out of service and started my own business
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Immigrants
Black Americans
Race relations
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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how my father came here from Brazil
my father was born in Recife Brazil being brought there by his mother who immigrated from Portugal she was married to a gambler and a womanizer who used to beat her up when in a drunken rage he would make her sign overland him to be used for as many vases her family was wealthy and owned acres of farmland etc.
after one of the many beatings she received she landed in the hospital and she then decided to leave her husband in Portugal and moved to Brazil this is where my dad was born they lived there for about 14 years and then my grandmother decided to send my dad to the United States where she thought life would be easier for him
here right by boat in Boston MA with only a birdcage a suitcase and a note pinned to his lapel telling the reader where he should be sent since he could speak no word of English is difficult for him to communicate with anyone he was supposed to go to a family in Dayton who in those days were called masters he was to work on their farm for food clothing and board in room is ship arrived at the Boston pier located in the north end and my grandmother told no one where she sent him after he arrived he was taken to a Boston police officer who brought him to a Portuguese barber who intern interpreted the note that was pinned to Isabell and instructed where my father should be sent and they put him on a bus to Dayton where his master met him and looked after him
he was placed in the second grade in school and the kids used to make fun of him because he couldn’t put his knees under the desk being so big he would lift the desks right off the floor taking out the screws as he did this the teachers would get very aggravated with us and the kids will make fun of him and tease him by taking his hat and running away sometimes they would throw his hat over a small cliff where he would have to climb down to get it and at times the older boys would beat him up he would go to his master with a bloody nose on occasion boys can be very cruel to other boys when they are foreign and don’t understand their ways this was the case with my dad
as children they played with wooden barrels and my father would climb inside so they could roll him of course his feet would stick way out he was so back one day they rolled him off a 20 foot cliff by the water in the Coast Guard had to come to rescue him before the tide came in or he would’ve drowned
when my dad went into the fourth grade he was with bigger children and became stronger by all the hard work on the farm he could wrestle anyone to the ground and many times he got beaten up but even if he was hurt he saw that you shared work on his masters farm sometimes even after dark he felt so all alone at times and it seem to him that no one cared about him or his problems
at this point in time he started to lift barrels that were along the beach he lifted them up over his head to build up his strength they were made of iron and were used by the wailers for storing blood broil which was used to burn lanterns sometimes the wheelers would sell these barrels of oil to the local hardware stores for money they would stink them out after dark
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Brazilian Americans
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Recife (Brazil)
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
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Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
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Radio broadcasting
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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mystic disposal Corp. about 1956 when I opened owners Dash George Rose and Woody Tarlow 50% each located on Revere Beach Parkway in Medford MA
while I was running the dumping operation mistake disposal Corp. would he Tarlow with my 50% partner in the whole operation he owned his land and I own mine we both had an agreement to let them both be filled by dumping of rubbish and burning and bulldozing and leveling the land.
now there was a twin screen drive-in theater on the other side of the road off Revere Beach Parkway about 1000 yards from our dumpsite is that create a problem when we let the rubbish burn each night we had to burn after the theater closed after 11 PM then we would let it burn for at least three hours we had two police officers who are moonlighting to support their families I was paying them $125 each to use the hose and extinguish the fire from the rubbish we had dumped by the cities that same day they worked for about four hours each night and weekends I used to fireman to do the same thing my bulldozer man and myself used to have another man on the hose ready as we bulldoze the burning ashes I will start using at 6 AM sometimes the pile of rubbish as we dozed it would flame up and the man had to put the hose on it and my dozer so that I wouldn’t get burned up we had a few explosions and I had a few close calls my bulldozer caught on fire on a couple of occasions but I got off safely.
I would collect money at the gate drag trucks to certain areas of the dam the cities were dump in one area in the private and commercial industries trucks were dumping another area I had designated for that day each area had to be cooled off after being burned they before and we kept water running through the hoses all the time 4 inch hoses
once in a while someone would sneak in a bad load of trans I had flammable materials and when the dump cut on fire they would explode so I had to be extra careful when I dump certain trucks now with a Monsanto chemical company across the river south east of my site I had to be extra careful for the embers which to pay from the damn fires and the wind would carry them across the Mystic River and we did have a few small grass fires on their land caused by these uppers now we have the drive-in theater across the road when I northeast wind came up I cannot burn it all that sure made a problem for me I always had to keep two spots reserved to dump then burn and hope the wind and shit and start a fire when we are dumping boy this was a headache and I lived on the premises practically my brother Manny was a Sageman from three in the afternoon till 11 PM then I had Thai cob‘s brother Eddie Cobb a nice man and conscientious from 11 PM till 7 AM five days a week on weekends I use please sets and fire sets captains and anyone that a politician would asked me to employ that as part of the game I refuse no one I always found a spot for someone to work if they wanted to work.
I owned the Esquire bar and lounge across from the courthouse in Cambridge St., Cambridge that August used to sell me have some morels John velocity would tell me beer from there and gas at the curve it would send me water meters old ones from the city of Cambridge they were the used ones bronze in Bastrop John Ferdinand would sell me a broom shovels pics in these out of using the rubbish business Joe Petrowski would do me favors in the city of Boston fixing tickets and favors in the Roxbury court he were to package ever used to play center half with me on the Lusitania club soccer team he was a big guy in here to take Irish brogue
so I had friends of mine in a lot of places maybe all or if not most of the favors they did for me was to help someone I knew and I was helping them I very seldom got anything for myself I was always helping someone and most the time I came up short for myself but later on in my life alert came back to me and my family for the things I’ve done to help people even if I didn’t know them all goes around comes around so they say I’m a firm believer if you cast your bread up on the water the teacher will bring it back into you without fail
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Waste disposal
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Revere (Mass.)
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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After being in business for about a year, Mystic Disposal Corp., or two, Hawk Zamparelli told me that Many Russo who owned an appliance company also owned a piece of land next to the Sub Shop and had a right of way to Moody Tarlow's back land and would also give me a right of way to my land, which was land locked in the rear. I bought it that way knowing that this was the case. Hawk told me not to tell Woody and buy it by myself. Manny Russo was a good friend of Hawk's and he would sell it it me. I said I can't do that, my conscience would bother me. After all, we (Woody and I ) are partners in the Mystic Disposal Corp. and we had 3 cities under contract. Somerville for $48,000 per year for 3 years, Medford for $16,900 for 3 years and Malden which I bid on for $19,000 for 3 years, all with options to renew. I then went to Woody and told him I could buy that piece of land from Russo. He said he had told him a year ago that he would not sell it. I said he will sell it now and Woody said O.K. I will make arrangements for us to buy it under Mystic Disposal Corp.
One month went by. 2 months went by. I finally asked Hawk if he had seen Manny and if he was going to sell the land to Woody and me. Three months went by and I finally ran into Manny Russo at Hawk's Cleaners. I asked him what was happening with the land deal. He said don't you know? We passed papers a month ago. Weren't you Woody's partner in that deal? I thought you were. Woody bought the land in his own name because he didn't want me to enjoin him in the right of way and he would have me by the throat. I went into Woody, I almost put him through a wall. Joe Kruger and Ed O'Donnell stopped me. I said you screwed me this time but my day will come. I then went to night school at Harvard after working all day long in the dump, collecting and running the bulldozer and running the whole operation with 3 cities and all the private rubbish companies and commercial company's dumping on our land. I was still land locked, so now Woody had me. He could get rid of me the next year when the contracts came up for renewal for he had all the aces. I learned my reparian rights and how to measure my land (taking R.E. law and business law) and look up titles at Harvard under the G.I. Bill of Rights. I went out there in the swampland (my land). It ran along the R & MRR tracks from the Revere Beach Pkwy. to the R.R. Bridge 1450ft. long. I measured with a 50 ft. tape, taking my point from the Cement Post (State marker) to the bridge. A The Plot Plan I had from the Registry of Deeds in the Registry at the Middlesex Courthouse in E. Camb. I looked up my title back to the Indians. I found after spending a lot of time looking up book after book that the R. & MRR had a R.R. bed them they built a Spur track then they put 22 ft. retainer wall to hold up the tracks (Big boulders). I found by my measurements and calculations (I could not afford a lawyer or surveyor) that the B & M was encroaching on my property for about 22 ft and 1400 ft. long to the bridge. I couldn't believe this. Before all this there was a Mr. Gallo who built a toy factory just before the Revere Beach Pkwy, and my land. There was just about 20 ft. between the RR and his right of way to his bldg. and loading platform. I tried to go by there a few times with my truck to dump rubbish before we had the dump permit and he put a chain up so I wouldn't pass unless I paid him so much a month to pass. I knew he was friendly with Woody T. and I figured Woody had put him up to this. I had a few choice words for him. In the meantime, I worked for Bill Donovan who was running for Mayor of Somerville, Jim Corbett introduced me to him. I went on the Portuguese hour and spoke to the Portuguese people to get votes for the Bill. The Portuguese Clubs all knew me because I played soccer ball for the Lucy Rec's Soccer Club also the St. Michael's Club. I told Bill Donovan and Walter Manning who was his Campaign Mgr. that if Bill was elected Mayor would he give me the contract to dump the city's rubbish on my dump site. If I got a permit from the City of Medford on the land area. They said they would. I worked hard and spent about $1500 of my hard earned money to get Bill Donovan elected. I then went to Woody Tarlow and told him what I was doing and if Bill was elected in Somerville that the Medford dump which was owned by Meyer Boxer on Riverside Ave. Medford was filled up and by next year Somerville, Medford and Malden would have a problem to get rid of their rubbish. Unless they went all the way to Saugus and that would be very costly. In the meantime I Had had a lot of trouble with the Chief of Police, the Chief of the Fire Dept. and the Medford Board of Health (John Carew) because I was dumping rubbish by going over the RR track passed the chain that Gallo who owned the toy factory. I was stopped but I kept going in that way. The City Counselor's made me an offer through a mutual friend for $15,000 for a piece of land I only paid $2,700 two years before. I refused then my wife started to get threatening phone calls after a decision from the council leave to withdraw. I then went to the City Hall and checked the books on City Council meetings etc. and who had permits and who didn't. I found this permit issued to the B & M RR 1949 and the description and others led me to believe that I was ...
the others, my land abutting the B&M RR land. So, I sent a letter to the Board of Health asking for a permit and enclosed a certified copy from the records. John Carew said he thought I had a permit the same as the B&M but would take it up with his board and would rather not rule on it until he discussed it with them. They met and made a ruling to let the city solicitor rule on it. So, he sent a letter ruling against it.
I could not see where I was doing any harm whatsoever by burning on my land. The Board of Health Comm. said he also could not see where I was harming anyone for I was dumping the same kind of rubbish as the B&M and what was good for them certainly should be good for me. The Chief of Fire and Mr. Gallo called him repeatedly to go down there to put out a little fire I had going, possible one or 2 loads of crates. Where the B&M usually burned train loads and that Mr. Gallo would not complain the B&M certainly is a lot closer to him than Rose was so why was he complaining about Rose and not the B&M. Gallo then said he had complained to the police but nothing was ever done about it. The Chief of Police then defended his office by saying to Gallo "We investigate all complaints and I am sure if you made a complaint about the B&M we certainly would have looked into it". They then said even though I was not harming anyone in any way I still had to have a permit from the Council. So, they gave me til the 1st of the month to stop my dumping and burning and the City Manager told me the Chief of Police and the rest.
After receiving a letter from the Board of Health to stop dumping, I then went to see the City Manager. I said if I was to be stopped I wanted everyone else in the area who did not have a permit to stop dumping and burning. I said how the Chief of Police came down to my land with the Board of Health Comm. and the Chief of Fire (Plant) and said I had to stop burning, there was a complaint from the Mayor's office so said the Chief of Police. The City Manager called the Chief of Police on the phone and asked him if the others down there had permits to be dumping and burning. The Chief said as far as he knew they did have. I told the City Manager I checked the records as far as the Board of Health and Fire Dept. was concerned there were none for the B&M Welsh or anyone else in that area. The City Manager then called a meeting for the next day at 2:15 at the City Hall. Mr. Gallo was called in (why???) Mr. Police, Chief Kerwin John J. Carew, Chief of Fire, Plant Lt. McGrath (Police) the City Manager were present and myself. The Chief of Fire said he could
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
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Portuguese American women
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Dighton (Mass.)
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Aug 20th 87
Real Estate Office
When I had the Real Estate office - on the corner of 7th and Camb. St. E. Camb.
I had two partners - one was Bill Smith who owned three bar rooms - and the other one was Charlie Burke - who owned a Rest and Submarine Sandwich Shop on Camb. St. Next door to the Italian Church St. Francis of Assisi - [illegible] Al Vellucci (Mayor) and Joe [illegible].
I had a file - the Irish Church was the Sacred Heart on 6th St. State Rep John Toomey and Father Ferrick who was a priest born in E. Camb. The Portuguese Church St. Anthony was on the corner of Camb. St. and Portland. We had the Irish and Lithuanian use the St. Patrick on Berkshire St. Walter Sullivan Councillor and Sen Dan O'Brien used to attend mass there. We also had St. Hendricks on [illegible] St. That was the Polish Church. St. Zelewiski the undertaker and a fellow head of the Polish Club were the ward bosses for that Church - Each church had its own politicians and ward bosses to get things done for them.
Now I used to go to most of them and knew quite a few people from all nationalities.
The nuns from the Sacred Heart would come in and sell me tickets to their affairs - I had a file on my desk. All the churches used to come in to sell me + Bill tickets to all of their events. The old folks senior citizens would also come in with chance books of some kind - I always took them. They would always go out of our office happy. I would buy two - The Esquire Bar + Lounge of which I owned half interest - Rose's Disposal Service - I ran LoPardo was my partner - Mystic Maintenance Corp. - of which I owned half interest and was Gen. Mgr. Plus the east Cambridge Real Estate office - So I could always find a check to buy tickets to help any charity in the neighborhood. We also sponsored softball teams or basketball teams in the neighborhood suits sneakers ect. We also sponsored a boxing club at the St. Francis Church (Italian Church) and [illegible] and cards Ping Pong, for the kids. I would always have a few drunks who would stop by in the mornings to get a cup of coffee - We always had a pot on. They would sleep out all night - Then I would give them a note to go to Mannie Costa my partner at the Esquire Bar to give them a free meal no beer no money. I think that is why god had been good to me. I did a lot of charity in my time. And got alot of people jobs and favors often. It made me feel good.
Patty Michaels had an office down the street from us 6 blocks near the Ital. Church. I would send customers to her office and she would give our office a cut if she made a sale or any money on whoever I recommended to her. She was pretty honest w/ us.
Walter Sullivan, Eddit Sul. Al Velluci State Rep Pete Velluci the Chief of Police Tony Palillo would also stop in once in a while for a cup of coffee and shoot the breeze with us. We had Jimmy Sower. He was weighted at one time and worked for the boys in the North End. He was in our office every day. He lived just one block up from us. He was a good guy - along with Eddie [illegible] who was a friend of mine for years. I got him a job w/ Sears Roebuck in Boston during a [illegible] for local 25 - He became the shop stewart - and when I had some problems w/ the Union 10 years later he was there to help me out.
My men used to take the rubbish off of the platform. Now some time we would have to wait until Sears men would bring it out to the platform. The Union used to raise hell when we would go in ourselves and roll the four wheel trucks w/ the rubbish and cardboard to the [illegible] platform. They tried to get me thrown out of there. But the manager and Eddie Bangs wouldn't let the Union do anything to my men and my trucks. So I kept the account for 3 years. It paid for me to have gotten Eddie that job years ago.
So many times I got people jobs, and later on in years they were in a position to return the favor. The women cop on the beat who used to be the meter maid in front of our office - She would overlook our cars not putting dimes in the meters - She used to stop in two times a day for her coffee - once in a while we would have to put money in when the Sgt was in the area checking her.
Charlie Burke also a partner in the E. Camb Realty Office - His nephew lived up stair over us. He kept his bike in our back room at the office. He was Cambridge Police Officer. His father Charlie Burkes brother was Lt. on the Camb. police and lived 3 doors down on the side street. He too was always in our office. We had Rep. Peter Vellucci Sen. Michael LoPresti and many other pols who liked to stop in also Judges who were friends of ours enjoyed talking to us.
We had poor and rich - sick and unfortunate. We had a good relationship with all departments of the city of Camb. We used to get invited to everything that was going on in the area. Always some one to do a favor for.
(Billy Maher was head of the Police internal affairs Dept. and was a good friend of mine)
Between Billy Smith Charlie Burke or myself we could do just about anything in the City and the people knew it. Senator Dennis McKenna would stop in to see me also once in a while.
We never knew who was going to stop in to say hellow to me mostly State Rep. from Somervill Marie Haue. She used to do alot of favors for people. I wanted to her in good w/ the Portuguese people because there were alot of them in Som. Manny Rogers son was also very active and he helped the Portuguese. He was pres of the Portuguese Credit Union Inman Sq. Camb. and I know his dad Manny Rogers very well. A peach of a man. He buried my son Geo Jr. when he died at the age of 27 yrs. He was great to me and my family.
Al Vellucci was the mayor of Camb. and he was always calling me to help some charity he was involved in for the City. We had the Warren Pals. Club on Warren St. Bugger Lampassi Joe Niealoro, Camb Bd. of Health Comm. Bill [illegible] Jim Parcie Income Tax inspector, Arthur [illegible] - and many more were influential people in the city hall - we had strength in all walks of life in Camb. Al Vellucci Jr. was head of the Camb City Hospital and many times Portuguese or others who could not pay their hospital bill and Al Jr. would take care of the bill for the poor people. This would also help his father the mayor and his brother the State Rep Peter Velucci to get some votes.
I told Al Vellucci one time I was going to take out my papers to run for City Councillor because he ignored me on some favor I had asked him to do for some poor unfortunate person. A Portuguese. I said to Al "If he was an Italian you would do it in a minute" When I said I would run against him he went pale and boy did I always get action after that time to this date.
I helped him very much with some of my Portuguese people to get the new Dante [illegible] Society building built and get it started. I donated money and materials and trucks along with my good from John Serpa Portuguese contractor
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Real estate agents
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community development--Religious aspects--Catholic Church
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
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Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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"My Dad's Funeral" (1987)
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Recollection by George W. Rose. His father passed away in June 1951.<br /><br />Transcript:<br />1948 or 49<br />Written July 16th 87<br />My Dads funeral - Central Sq. fight.<br />I had been out of the Army for only a short time, my Dad passed away. I wa sliving on Hurley St. East Camb. the little house - at 213 Hurley St. I believe I had 2 or 3 children at the time. My dad was being waked at my Uncle Joe Costas funeral parlor on Prospect St. Camb. Joe Costa was married to my mothers ssiter Aunt Mamie Costa. Souza was my mothers maiden name.<br />I had a car about 5 years old at the time - What ever year it was. Anyway I needed a new pair of dress showes for the funeral. So about 4:15pm I said to my brother Eddie "lets go up to Central Sq. so I can buy a new pair of shoes." So my brother, Eddie, Mannie, Steve Kenney, my brother-in-law - my sister Catherin's husband jumped into my car and started out for Central Sq. Camb. - which was only about 8 blocks from my uncles funeral parlor on Prospect St. We were on Mass. Ave going towards the Mass bridge and M.I.T. at the intersection of Mass. Ave and Lafayette Sq. I was in traffic a trolley car in behind me. I moved way to my left to take a left hand turn not a turn exactly just to bear left of the gas st. that sat right in the middle of the square - I stopped and saw this big coal truck step on the gas and pull right in front of me head on - I couldn't back up I had a trolly car directly in back of me. Two men in the truck, a big Mack coal truck from D.B. Raymond Co. from Watertown the Driver opened his window and said f-- you. I opened my window I was driving and said F- You too. Now there were people walking all around the sq. for there was a Candy Factory and Shoe Factory and many business establishments in the immiedate area - <br />The driver of the coal truck in front of me said to a couple of passerbys who he knew and laughing he said to them watch this. Then proceeded to step down from his high seat in the big truck. I opened my door and started to get out of my car. my brother Ed was in the front seat w/ me. My brother Mannie was in the near seat. Mannie would fight at the drop of a hat.<br />Eddit got out and as he went to close the door, Mannie was getting out of the front door the car was a two door - Eddie went to close the door and he hit Mannie in the head with the door. Mannie got mad and said some son of a bitch is going to pay for this. In the meantime, the driver was right in front of me as I stepped out of my door - The other fellow was righ tin front of Eddie and Mannie. Eddied had to restrain Mannie from hitting the other fellow who now backed off a bit - The truck driver said to me lets go over to the alley across the street. I said O.K. lets go. I took 3 steps behind him to follow and he turned quickly and threw a sucker punch. I went slightly under it and just hit and graised my head. I then threw a couple of lefts then a right cross catching him right on the jaw. We started fighting I managed to get him over the hood of my car. And as I was pounding him - People were going oh! oh! every time I hit him. I let him get straightened up. It was evident he didn't want to fight any longer for he was bleeding from the nose and I guess his jaw was broken.<br />The police Sgt. and 2 cruisers came and took him to the hospital - The other fellow who Eddie and Mannie were holding didn't want no part of us.<br />The Sgt said to me George go to the Police Station and make out a report and I will meet you up there.<br />I was a little shaken up so Steve Kenney my brother in law frove my car with Mannie Eddie and I up to the Camb. police Sta. Of course they all knew me for I was an active resident of the City. The Chief and I belonger to the Kyanis Club together.<br />Anyway I filled out a report. And I was released - to appear in Court the next A.M. because he filed an assault and battery charge against me. I called Bill Andrews who was a County Comm. and a good lawyer former District Attorney.<br />I helped him when he ran for office. He was Portuguese and a good friend of my Dads and Uncle Joe Costa also. <br />The next day he was to meet me at the 3rd District Court. I lived only 3 streets away. This was on Spring and 3rd St. and I lived on Hurley and 3rd St. as I approached the Court House Bill walked down to the corner to meet me. He said I just saw the other fellow going into Court. He is pretty well damanged up a brocken jaw. He has to go back to the hospital for a few days - You don't have but a bruise on the side of your temple. You had better not show up in court I will tell the Judge you also are banged up and couldn't make it.<br />I will get a compliance which we did - for about 3 weeks.<br />We went into the Judges chambers w/ the Clerk of Courts and w/ the two lawyers. He wanted all kinds of things from me to pay - His loss of work Dr.'s bills ect.<br />I explained to the Judge just what had happened and that my father was layed out at the Funeral Parlor at the time and that this man threw the 1st punch. I had a couple of people who were going by from work in Central Sq at the time and would come in to be a witness in my behalf.<br />Anyway. I said the most I will give him is three days taht he lost from work and one hundred dollars to help towards his hospital bill.<br />The Judge told him he was lucky he didn't get a charge yet of an assault + bat on him for he started the whole thing. His lawyer who also knew me from Watertown where the man came from this. This lawyer and I had worked together for Mike LoPresti for Senator and I also worked on the home for the Italian Children fun w/ Martin DeMateo, a contractor. The Lawyer was Mike Scalfiani. He adviced his client to take it, because he had been a professional Boxer and his hands were considered weapons therefore he could be in a lot of trouble for starting a fight - <br />It cost me about $150.00 Bill Andrews wouldn't take my money and Scalfiani wouldn't take any money from me either for their services. I guess my Dad had taught us well how to Box only if we had to - don't go looking for trouble fo rthere ia lways some one tougher than you.<br />I met this fellow at the Camb. City dump about a year later - He was in his Truck and I was dumping rubbish w/ my truck. I shook hands with him and asked him to stop for a cup of coffee which we did. He said I never expected that you were as fast as you were. You sure retaliated fast after I threw that 1st punch. He said I guess we all learn lessons in life - We parted the rest. as friends -
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1987-07-16
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Text
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RoseWritings3
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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Funeral service
Forgiveness
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Grandma Salta (1935-1936)
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Azorean Americans
Portuguese American women
Crows as pets
Dogs
Berries--Harvesting
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Recollection written by George W. Rose.<br /><br />Transcript:<br />Grandma Salta 1935-1936<br />Typed Aug 14th 1987<br /><br />My Grandmother Mary Rose Oliver - who married Frank Oliver - my father's Step Father - moved to Falmouth on Cape Cod - They had a little 4rm bungalow with 5 acres of land.<br />She grew straberries - and potatoes corn and duke cucumbers to live on.<br />My brothers and I with a few other of our city friends would go down to her house - sleep on the porch and pitch a tent - then we would pick strawberries for farmers in the area. They woudl pay us 2cents a basket. The baskets were 4" by 2 1/2" high. It owuld take about 25 berries to fill ea basket giving us 2 cents ea - They would give us a little round check on turning in ea full basket of berries - on your knees for 8 hrs at a time was hard on the back also at a time was hard on the back also we would have alot of fun - watching the girls and women trying to make more money on the run -<br />At night we would gather at the post office - and the older ones would have cars - they would go to the beach and have fun - some times they would take us -<br />We use to pick cohogs and clams before it got dark. We would bring them home to my grandmother so she could make clam chowder and other meal from the fish we would bring home. 4th of July we used to go out at night and knowk over out houses. Some time someone would be in it - and we wouldn't know it - we got chased many time by the people also the police - We played tricked on some of the real cheap farmers - who hated to pay us for a basket at 2 cents unless it was overflowing sometime we would steal his truck and go for a joy ride - <br />When school opened we would have to come back home to the city E. Camb. making probably 150.00 to 200.00 dollars for the sumer after giving my poor grandmother and grandfather a few dollars - they would never ask us for any money - they were wonderful to us. My Grandma and Grandpa - Deleted their Chickens - making sure we got plenty eggs and chicken soup to eat.<br />and plenty milk from the cow she had also a goat. She used to talk Portuguese to her animals and birds she had - They obeyed her just like little children - We used to be amazed at the things she used to make them do. She had a dog, named Jack. She would send him to the store with Box Tops from the product she wanted. The store keeper would put them in a bag and the dog would come right back home to her like a little kid. 2 miles. Then she would reward him with something to eat. She had a black crow that she found dying one day and nursed it back to health. She trained him when she wanted my Grandfather to come in from the fields. She would send the bird to him - Fly [illegible] and fly back to her. She would feed him.<br />She spoke to the birds and animals like she was talking to a little kid - they would just look at her and do as she asked - The cow and the billy goat also did as she asked - She was an amazing woman w/ animals - <br />When I got older and went into the U.S. Army - I was stationed for one year at Camp Edwards in Falmouth so I got to see them quite often. Before I got sent overseas I gave ten dollars a week to my Grandma - and 10.00 a week to my Grandpa. I had it sent by my 1st Sgt. Neither one knew I was giving 10.00 to ea one of them. My grandmother would cash the check w/ the milk man so he wouldn't know and he would walk to Kenyons store 1/2 mile away to buy his tobacco and cash their welfare check - at the same time cash the 10.00 he was getting from me ea month. I did this for most of the time. I was in the service 5 yrs. I didn't drink or smoke so I thought this was the best place to put my money and I felt good in my heart.<br />My father nor my family never knew this until my Grandmother told my father right before my Grandpa took sick and died - He also learned about my Grandmother too. My Dad was very happy that I had done this for his mother and step father - <br />Sneaked a peek<br />Many times we watched the older strawberry pickers take the girls behind the out houses or shed to have sex, some time in the woods also.
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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RoseWritings2
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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July 12, 1987 Written (Sunday)
Name - Silva
Roof-Jump 1928-29
My mother had a sister named Silva who lived across the street from us on Third St. East Cambridge in a 3-family house, owned by an Italian family. They also owned the grocery store on the first floor.
I remember going to Mr. Spera's store every day (we had a charge per wk). for whatever my mother would need. My aunt Mame Silva had a nephew who was living with her because his father had died and his mother Lena Simmonds went despondent. my mother took in one son, Manuel Simmonds and she took in the older son Joe. He was a little retarded and she and her husband couldn't handle him. He just about did as he pleased hitting kids in the neighborhood and taking other kids toys, bikes etc.
He also used to hit her when she wouldn't give him his own way. We all had a tough time with him. I got along with him although I was small and younger than he. I used to wrestle with him down the Charles River on the grass and he liked me because I wasn't afraid of him.
My aunt used to call me sometimes to take him out for a walk because he had hit her. I would fight with him and he couldn't talk too plain but would never hurt me. Even after chasing me and catching me. I guess things were worse than we thought with my aunt. She was a bit woman. I will never forget one Saturday morning about 10 a.m. I was going into the store across the street from my house where she lived over the store. I looked into the yard to see if Benny Spera whose father owned the store had his bike outside because we were going down to the Charles River riding our bikes. All of a sudden I saw this big thing come down through the air from the top of the rood. I had just turned away, not realizing someone had fallen off the roof. I guess my aunt couldn't take life anymore with her husband drinking and fighting with her and the beatings she was taking from him. All this and a retarded son nephew, not too much for her and she jumped off the third story roof. I will never forget that sight and sound as long as I live. Blood all over the cement walk in the yard and all the neighbors yelling and screaming. My poor mother came running across the street and seeing her sister lying there was a traumatic shock. The ambulance came quickly and took her to the morgue, an awful sight for a young kid like me to see.
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<strong>[This item may contain language which may be triggering to some individuals. This item includes graphic descriptions of self-harming behavior and insensitive word choice, according to current standards.]</strong><br /><br />Recollection written by George W. Rose.
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Mr. George William Rose
414 Winthrop Street
Medford, Massachusetts 02155
Home: 395-1220
Date of Birth: 8/16/1921
Status: Married (Nine Children)
Education
1959 Boston College - Spring - Five-Day Seminar, National Highway Safety Conference
1959 Calvin Coolidge College of Liberal Arts - Bachelor of Science Degree
1956 Harvard University Extension - Special Courses, Real Estate Law and Business Law
1940 U.S. Army Truck Depot School - Heavy Equipment Maintenance, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts
1940 U.S. Army Ordinance School - For Devens, Massachusetts
1939 Rindge Technical High School - Cambridge, Massachusetts - High School Diploma
Putnam Grammar School - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Military
1940-1945 U.S. Army Combat Engineers - Sergeant
Foreign Service: 34 months Combat Duty, South Pacific
Participated in two major invasions: Guadacanal, and Bougainville
U.S.A on return from Foreign Service: Trained Combat Engineers for overseas duty in use of heavy equipment
Prior to honorable discharge, Sergeant of Guard in supervision of German Prisoners, Fort Devens Massachusetts.
Medals and Awards:
Presidential Unit Citation with one Oak Leaf Cluster from First Marine Division - Three Battle Stars - Victory Medal
Good Conduct Medal - Special Commendation from Corps Commander, Fort Devens, for apprehending German Prisoner in process of escape, Disable Veteran with certified 10% disability from Veterans Administration.
Experience
1969 to Present
Chandris Shipping Lines - Sales Representative New England Area
Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts
1961 to Present
Part Time - Selling Private and Commercial Properties (Have Real Estate Brokers License) working from James Bremis Realty office
Teele Square, Somerville
1967 to 1968 Starlite, Inc. - Peabody, Massachusetts - Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge, Function Hall - General Manager of complete establishment. Duties included: Supervision of approximately twenty employees handled both hiring and terminations. Putting and keeping house in order and increase income operations until establishment (land and building), was sold. This I did for seven months, then the property was sold for over $400,000.
1964 to 1967
Rose Chalet - Rte. #1, Saugus, Massachusetts - Manager of complete establishment. Duties consisted of: The Rose Chalet was primarily a Function Room. In charge of maintaining the premises both inside and out. Interviewing people interested in renting the room.
Weddings - handled all invitations Flowers Photographs church limousines Food (including Wedding Cake) Entertainment Coat Room
Banquets and Showers: Flowers & any necessary decorating (if and when necessary) Food (both buffet style and meals) Coat Room Entertainment (when requested) Additional duties depending upon the circumstances
Parties: same as above
Much of the above was handled on a Package Deal basis.
In almost every function their would be various small requests which I would see were followed through.
1959-1964
Vice-President and Treasurer, Rose and Costa Realty Trust and Esquire Bar and Lounge, Lechemere Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1961-1963 Safety-Tite Inc. - President and Treasurer - Arlington, Massachusetts Manufacturers and distributors of plastic baby blanket holders.
1946 to 1963 Rose's Disposal Service - Cambridge, Massachusetts - President and Founder
30 yrs. in Business operation of Compact Dump Trucks and container pickups.
1959 to 1961 Mystic Disposal Corporation - 90 Revere Beach Parkway, Medford, Massachusetts
Owned and operated - Handled tri-city dumping and land-fill contracts, municipal, private and industrial. Valuable commercial waterfront land developed in association with this corporation. Received substantial, long-term consultant fees from Mystic Disposal Corporation.
1958 to 1960 Received Real Estate Redevelopment and Brokerage License - presently in force and doing on a part time basis.
1958 to 1959 George W. Rose Company - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Leased bulldozer
1956 to 1958 Rose and Silva Construction Co. - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Handled construction of retaining walls, drain-laying - road and driveway hot-topping. Owned, maintained and operated front-end loader and heavy bulldozer. Had personal contacts with management in Tokyo.
1970 Went to Japan to see the Tezuk Kosan Co. Ltd of Tokyo Disposal of solid waste plant compaction system.
Civic Activities - Memberships and honors:
Pres. of compaction systems of Mass - was an executive officer of waste management and compaction systems inc. 850 Boylston st. Chestunut Hill, Mass. - National Sales operating program.
1963 Awarded Babe Ruth Trophy - Little League, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Outstanding management kills and practical knowledge of the complex problems of solid waster - government, municipal, and private
1962 Middlesex County March of Dimes, Co-Chairman
1961 Cambridge Lions Club - Charter President
1959 Special Award, Chairman, National Retarded Children's Fun - Cambridge Division
1958 to 1959 Fund Raising Committee, home for Italian Children - Boston
1957 to 1958 Cambridge Kiwanis Club, Special Award - Chairman underprivileged Children Fund
1956 Lusitania Club of Cambridge, Awarded Certificate - "Sportsman of the Year". Finalist for tryout for Olympic Soccer Team, New York City
1978 to 1982 Member - AFSCME Council 93 - State Employees
Other activities, honors, and memberships:
Veterans Groups: VFW 299, Cambridge - American Legion Post 27 - Cambridge DAV Post - Veterans Association, Charter Vice-Commander.
Cambridge Lodge of Elks, member
St. Joseph's Father Club, Medford - member
Life-long member of the Democratic Party - Active in Party affairs elections, city county and state. In 1965 elected member of Medford Democratic City Committee
1971-72 worked as Gen Mgr. and coordinator Blackstone Oil
1970- Disposal and Reclamation company, Inc. Boston and Pawtucket
1973 - Member American Public Works Association
APWA - Municipal, County, State, Federal
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George W. Rose resume
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Handwritten corrections by George W. Rose.
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Saugus (Mass.)
Somerville (Mass.)
Danvers (Mass.)
Esquire Bar & Lounge
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Mystic Maintenance Corp.
Rose & Silva Construction Co.
Rose Chalet
Rose's Disposal Service
Starlite
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Lopez and Costa Club
Corner Third and Hurley Streets
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dear Member:
Our next meeting will be held Wednesday evening, February 6th, 1952 at 9:15 at our Club Quarters.
Every effort will be made to adjourn meeting at 10:00 P.M.
Many matters of importance to be discussed.
Please try to attend, as every meeting is important, for the good of your club. You elected the Officers - NOW- get behind them!
Sincerely,
George W. Rose, Secretary
213 Hurley Street
Cambridge 41, Mass.
Let's Stay Together -- "Even a banana gets skinned when it leaves the bunch." George
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Lopez and Costa Club meeting notice
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Meeting notification for the Lopez and Costa Club meeting.
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1952-02-06
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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An account of the resource
This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Hello Darling:
It sure is wonderful out here. We have seen everything we wanted to see. This place is fantastic. Our daughter will never in her life forget this trip. I am going to [illegible] tonight. I am going to pick up some nice perfume for you.
I think of you constantly. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Mine my love to all. Don't worry about us we will be home before you know it. Love to Mom.
Your darling husband
{I hope)(Still love me??)
As always,
George
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Postcard from George W. Rose to his wife
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Postcard sent from George W. Rose to his wife, Mary. Details his trip to Disneyland with his daughter, Maureen.
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1956-09
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English
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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JPEG
PDF
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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Thurs. 3:30pm
Must be 6pm there
Hello Honey;
It sure was wondering talking to you this morning. I just got through taking a sun bath. I just had to write to you. I miss you very much honey. I have to keep busy, so that I don't think about it too much. I sure wish you could have come you would enjoy this county. The weather is beautiful and as is the trees, plants, etc. Gee I just realized this is Thursday, boy! I have been on a merry go round since I arrived here. I finally caught up on my sleep this morning. Who could eat and sleep with all the excitement working to help Jack Kennedy be nominated. Boy! The Mass Delegation sure did work hard. I was in the demonstrations for Kennedy. I was all me who let the 50 balloons go up in to the ceiling at the demonstration yesterday. Most of the cameras were on me. I hope some one back there saw it. Honey I really enjoyed every minute of the convention. It sure is wonderful to be an American. This is democracy at its best. Just think that all the little people have a right to pick the man they themselves want and not the choice of a certain few. It sure makes my heart feel good to know I risked my life overseas and went through hell for this. It makes me feel all of my suffering over seas was not in vain. And the boys who lost their lives were not for nothing. I was supposed to go with John Car (Mayor) and Woody and the boys to MGM Studios today but I slept instead. You told me to get my rest. Dotty sure is a wonderful person. She and Eddie have done everything to make me feel comfortable. Their home is beautiful. I have a room with bath and shower private off my bed room. They gave their room up for me. It is wonderful and a nice breeze comes in all the time.
Her daughter and husband with the two children were over Sunday night with Harriet and Bill. I showed them the pictures, Bill Larkin could not get over how big our children have gotten.
God bless them. We sure have a lot to be thankful for. They are not only beautiful but we have wonderful kids too. After all, look at the wonderful wife I have bringing them up. Its a credit to you honey. You are the one who spends the time with them. I just heard on the air it is 3:30 here. That John Kennedy just said that Sen. Johnson will be his choice for the Vice Presidential nomination. Boy thats good news becasue Johnson will carry the South and that will keep Jack. You know I was in the back of the podium when Jack Kennedy was going to his car only newsmen were allowed they were too lousy taking pictures. I said to Jack Kennedy I said to him "God bless you Jack" and he looked right at me stopped took my hand and said "Thanks George" boy my heart jumped a beat. My eyes filled up too think he and all of us worked so hard and to think victory was ours. Gee I am so happy for him. I had quite a talk yesterday with his sister Pat. She is a wonderful person. She stayed right on the floor all day with us. Mike LoPresti and his wife said for me to say hello to you. Well Honey I have to get cleaned up I will call you Sat. I sure have some nice pictures to show you. I love you honey and don't you even for one minute forget it. I don't know what my plans will be but I will let you know Sat. just when I will see you in person and believe me sweet heart I am looking forward to that.
Dot and Eddie send their love to you and all the family. Take good care for me. Kiss all my little darlings. How is our little darling Chuckie? Hope he is fine. Well sweet heart God Bless and keep you. I sure love you.
Your ever loving husband, George Rose
P.S. that must have been my plane you saw we were ten minutes late taking off Sunday 9:10AM love George
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Letter from George about the 1960 Democratic National Convention
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Written from the 1960 Democratic National Convention, to his wife Mary.
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1960-07
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Politicians
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
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1900-2003
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This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
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John F. Kennedy at Democratic National Convention
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Photo taken by George W. Rose
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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1960-07
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Image
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Rose_046
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
Subject
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Politicians
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George W. Rose Collection [1900-2003]
Subject
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Entrepreneurship
United States. Army.
World War, 1939-1945
Veterans
Waste disposal
Portuguese American women
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community organization
Radio broadcasting
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Digital scans donated from the personal collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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English
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
Date
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1900-2003
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PDF
Description
An account of the resource
This collection contains images related to the Rose family, focusing on the life of George W. Rose. Items include pictures from his childhood, his involvement in the local Cambridge, MA community, and material from his various business dealings. Most items focus on the time period between 1930-1980.<br /><br /><strong>Biographical Sketch</strong><br /><p>George W. Rose was a World War II veteran, entrepreneur, radio broadcaster, and activist in the Democratic Party in Massachusetts, as well as a delegate to the 1960 Democratic convention in which he was pledged to John F. Kennedy. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 16, 1921. His mother Anna (Souza) Rose (1882-1960), although born in Boston, had family roots in Sao Miguel, Azores. His Brazilian-born father, John Dutra Rose (1882-1951), who immigrated to the United States from Recife, had roots in Faial, Azores. Anna and John Rose raised nine children in Cambridge, with George being the youngest son.</p>
<p>At the time of George Rose’s birth, the Portuguese population in Cambridge was among the top five in Massachusetts. These Portuguese settled primarily in East Cambridge and by 1902 this community had grown to such an extent that the Boston archdiocese established St. Anthony’s parish. Most of East Cambridge’s Portuguese residents had immigrated from the Azores, notably Sao Miguel, and the majority were wage earners toiling in the city’s numerous factories.</p>
<p>George Rose’s father followed a slightly different path to East Cambridge. His mother, (George’s grandmother), Maria (Conceicão) Rose Oliver, or "Avo Salta" as the family lovingly refers to her, grew up in Horta, Faial, in a wealthy family. She wed John Dutra Rose but he proved to be an abusive husband. From her family she inherited an estate in Brazil in the coastal city of Recife and moved there. Apparently her husband joined her in Recife and she birth to her only son, also named John Dutra Rose. Perhaps with the hope that he would find more opportunity in the United States, his mother sent him at age 14 to Boston. Eventually she separated from her husband, left Brazil for Massachusetts, and remarried.</p>
<p>Upon his arrival in Boston, John Dutra Rose found work on a farm in Dighton, Massachusetts, living there and in New Bedford where he attended public school and learned English. John Dutra Rose subsequently moved to Cambridge, married George’s mother, Anna (Souza) Rose, and found work in the Cambridge Rubber Company’s factory, known for its production of rubber boots and a large employer of Portuguese. He would later establish a small repair business, specializing in the restoration of religious statuary.</p>
<p>Similar to many others of his generation in East Cambridge, George Rose grew up in a household where Portuguese was spoken, but he attended public schools and learned to navigate through both Portuguese and American cultures. After completing his grammar school education at the Putnam School, Rose entered Rindge Technical High School. Financial hardship in his family in the wake of the Great Depression, led him to apply for and receive a job in the federal Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). He left school and moved to Colorado. His work with the CCC included the operation of heavy construction equipment and by 1940 he returned to Massachusetts, enlisting in the U.S.</p>
<p>Army and training in ordinance at Fort Devens, as well as in army construction equipment and maintenance at Fort Edwards.</p>
<p>Following Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, George Rose served in the U.S. Army Combat Engineers, participating in three major invasions: Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and Cebu in the Philippines. He spent a total of 34 months in combat duty in the South Pacific. Before his honorable discharge in 1945, he attained the rank of Sargent of the Guard at Fort Devens, and received a number of combat awards and medals, including a Presidential Unit Citation and three battle stars.</p>
<p>In 1945, while at Fort Devens, Rose met and married Mary Frances Turner of Haverhill, Massachusetts. The following year they had a daughter, Maureen Frances, the first of nine children. The other eight children, born between 1947 and 1965, were Sharon Ann, Carol Lee, George W. Jr., Marilyn Bernice, Donna Marie, Charles John, Kenneth Robert, and Judith Ann. George Rose purchased a house in Cambridge, before moving to nearby Medford.</p>
<p>To support his growing family Rose engaged in a number of businesses. This ranged from a refuse removal company to an asphalt paving firm. He also engaged in real estate, gaining accreditation through the Harvard University Extension program. He also attended the Calvin Coolidge College (no longer operating) in Boston, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1960. In addition, Rose was a well-known member of the Lusitania Club of Cambridge and was heavily involved in a number of charitable organizations, serving as president of the Cambridge Lions Club, chairman of the Cambridge Kiwanis Underprivileged Children’s Fund, and was a fund raiser for the Home for Italian Children in Boston.</p>
<p>Apart from his business activities, Rose, a talented athlete, excelling in basketball and soccer, played semi-professional soccer and nearly made the U.S. Olympic soccer team in 1956. He was well-known in the Boston area’s Portuguese community not only for his participation and leadership in a number of Portuguese social and cultural organizations, but also as a radio broadcaster on “The Portuguese Hour,” heard on Medford’s station WHIL, in which he was part-owner.</p>
<p>In part influenced by his older brother John Dutra Rose, Jr., who was active in local politics in Cambridge, George Rose became deeply involved in Democratic Party politics at the local, state, and national levels. An early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Rose was a delegate to the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, in 1960. During presidential campaign he accompanied Kennedy to a number of rallies in the Boston area, translating for the many Portuguese in attendance. He was later a consultant for and friend of Congressman Thomas “Tip” O’Neil, as well as Governor Michael Dukakis.</p>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, George Rose was involved in a number of businesses, including restaurants and hotels, north of Boston, and in an automobile tire recycling firm. Dedicated to his family and friends, while always prizing his Portuguese heritage, Rose also took up painting and poetry. He retired from business in the early 1980s and</p>
<p>moved with his wife to Fort Meyers, Florida. Following his death in 1988, he received numerous accolades for his community service and charitable work, and was bestowed with a public square in Cambridge named after him and dedicated by Mayor Alfred Vellucci.</p>
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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The Four Roses holiday card
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Christmas
Portuguese American women
New Year
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Holiday card (Christmas and New Year) from the Rose family. Includes pictures of both parents and four children.
From left to right: George Jr., Maureen, Carol, Sharon
Mary and George pictured below.
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Rose, George W.
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From the collection of the Rose family, courtesy of Carol Rose Camelio.
Publisher
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UMass Lowell, Center for Lowell History
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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted: This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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JPEG
Type
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Image
Identifier
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Rose_004
Coverage
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Date
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1954