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Addresses Of U.M. Rose
Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose
G.I. Jones, 1914
Judges; Law; Speeches, addresses, etc
Uriah Milton Rose was an American lawyer. He practiced in Little Rock for more than forty years. The firm today bears his name: Rose Law Firm.
Background
Uriah Milton Rose was born in Bradfordsville, Kentucky, on March 5, 1834. At the age of five he was studying Latin and his father gave him the best educational advantages available up to the time of his own death in 1849. The small estate which Dr. Rose had accumulated now went into the hands of an administrator, R. H. Roundtreeand, and Uriah had to shift for himself.
Education
In September 1853 he graduated in law at Transylvania University.
Career
R. H. Roundtree, an able and kindly lawyer, took an interest in him and found a place for him as deputy county clerk. He studied law at night and saw it administered at first hand daily by some of the most celebrated lawyers and jurists of the state.
He set out in December of the same year for Batesville, Ark. , where he formed a law partnership with William E. Gibbs, a brother-in-law, hoping to recover his lost health riding the circuits. First he had to master the highly technical common-law pleading then in vogue in Arkansas, but his graceful courtesy and refinement of manner disarmed the rough-and-tumble lawyers of the frontier, and he was soon able to meet the best lawyers of the state on terms of equality.
In 1860 Governor Conway appointed him chancellor in Pulaski County. He hesitated to accept the post, but did so on the advice of friends and held the office until the Federals captured the state capital. He had opposed secession, but at the outbreak of war cast in his lot with the state and remained loyal to it to the end.
In the fall of 1865 he moved to Little Rock and formed a partnership with George C. Watkins, formerly chief justice of Arkansas. After the death of Judge Watkins in 1867, Rose's name stood first in that of the leading law firm of the state. In this year he published Digest of the Arkansas Reports (1867), covering the first twenty volumes of reports. In 1874 he went to Washington to lay before President Grant the claims of Elisha Baxter in the Brooks-Baxter war over the governorship.
In 1872 Rose began a series of travels which took him all over Europe, the West Indies, Mexico, and Hawaii. He was frequently in demand for addresses at bar association meetings and as an after-dinner speaker. A happy success on such an occasion when he proposed a toast in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt at the time of the latter's visit to Little Rock led to his appointment as delegate to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907.
In 1891 he published The Constitution of the State of Arkansas, with notes; his occasional addresses were collected and published after his death as Addresses of Uriah M. Rose (1914). He served as president of the Arkansas Bar Association, 1899-1900, and of the American Bar Association, 1901-02. He died in his eightieth year.
Achievements
Uriah was a prominent attorney. He was a founder and president of both the Arkansas Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
Rose was a good speaker and linguist, reading German and speaking French fluently. He collected a library of some eight thousand volumes in different languages and was familiar with most of it. He exercised a powerful influence over the Arkansas bar, leading it toward sobriety and higher moral standards, and adding dignity to the profession.
His statue was placed by the state in the Statuary Hall of the National Capitol, an honor accorded to few private citizens.