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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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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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"Joe Amaral - Hank Myette - Softball Team" (1987)
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Recollection written by George W. Rose.<br /><br /><strong>[This item may contain language which may be triggering to some individuals. This item includes insensitive word choice, according to current standards.]</strong>
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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
Date
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1987-07-12
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PDF
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English
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Text
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RoseWritings8
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Cambridge (Mass.)
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Immigrants
Black Americans
Race relations