Background
Rose, Donald Frank was born on June 29, 1890 in Street, Somerset, England. Son of Frank Hodson and Mary Ann (Searle) Rose.
Rose, Donald Frank was born on June 29, 1890 in Street, Somerset, England. Son of Frank Hodson and Mary Ann (Searle) Rose.
Bachelor of Arts, Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, 1914. Student summers, Columbia University, and University of Oxford, England.
Came United States, 1908, naturalized, 1922. School teacher, 1914-1925. Free lance journalism and book reviewing, 1927-1928.
Joined staff of Public Ledger, Philadelphia, as editorial writer, 1928.
Daily columnist Evening Public Ledger, 1932-1940. Associate editor North American Review, 1927.
Contributing editor Aeronautical Digest, 1927-1931. Columnist, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin since 1941.
Author or editor of numerous books since 1927.
Latest publication: Full House, 1951. Lecturer and after-dinner speaker. Home: 864 Fetters Mill Road, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania Office: care Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia 1.
Married Marjorie Wells, June 13, 1914. Children: Tryn (Mistress David Grubb), Leon Starkey, Roy Hodson, Muriel (Mistress Robert Genzlinger), Stanley Alan, Sylvia (Mistress Rey West. Cooper), John Wells, Marjorie Irene (Mistress Lorentz Soneson), Frank Shirley, Kenneth, Donnette (Mistress Lennart Alfelt), Donald.