1. Louis Rose was a pioneer developer of San Diego, California.
16 Facts About Louis Rose
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Louis Rose was a German Jewish immigrant and San Diego's first identifiable Jewish resident.
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Louis Rose came to San Diego in 1850, via New Orleans, Louisiana and Texas.
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Louis Rose traveled to California with Judge James W Robinson's wagon train party.
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Louis Rose was central in the establishment and development of San Diego's Jewish community.
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Louis Rose donated the land for the first Jewish cemetery.
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Louis Rose was a founding member of Congregation Beth Israel.
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Later in his life, in San Diego, Louis Rose was introduced to and married a local Jewish widow, Matilda Newman.
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Louis Rose was buried in an unmarked grave until the Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish History purchased a headstone, which was dedicated in partnership with the school district, the teachers union, and the Eastern Star Masonic Organization of which she was president of a lodge.
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Louis Rose was buried in the Jewish cemetery that he helped found.
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Louis Rose realized that transportation would be important to San Diego.
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Louis Rose thought it would be a future city, and for a time it was a separate city competing with San Diego's New Town across the bay.
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Louis Rose bought 650 acres in the canyon in 1853 and had a ranch there, with a tannery.
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Louis Rose prospected for gold and copper without too much success.
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Louis Rose had one daughter, Henrietta, a school teacher who never married.
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Louis Rose is buried in Home of Peace Cemetery on Imperial Avenue.