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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
Coverage
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Cambridge (Mass.)
Dighton (Mass.)
Medford (Mass.)
Recife (Brazil)
Date
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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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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
Dublin Core
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Title
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"How My Father Came Here From Brazil"
Description
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Recollection written by George W. Rose.
Creator
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Rose, George W.
Source
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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).
Format
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PDF
Language
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English
Type
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Text
Identifier
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RoseWritings7
Subject
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Brazilian Americans
Family violence
Immigrants
Immigrant families
Bullying in schools
Coverage
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Recife (Brazil)
Dighton (Mass.)