Uriah Rose

Uriah Milton Rose (1834-1913) was an attorney and president of the Arkansas Bar Association and a founding member of the American Bar Association. The Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, today bears his name. He was also publisher of Rose's Digest.

In 1865 he joined with Judge George C. Watkins to form the office of Watkins and Rose. Watkins died in 1872. George Rose joined his father as a lawyer in the firm in 1881.

Governor Elias Conway appointed Rose chancellor of Pulaski County's Chancery Court in 1860, and he subsequently moved to Little Rock. In May 1874 he argued for the side of Elisha Baxter in the infamous Brooks-Baxter War over the Arkansas Governor's Office.

Rose served as U.S. representative to the Second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907.

Personal life

Rose was born on March 5, 1834, in Marion County, Kentucky, to Joseph and Nancy Rose. He studied law privately in Lebanon, and graduated from Lexington's Transylvania Law School in 1853. That same year he married Margaret T. Gibbs. Between 1853 and 1860 he practiced law in Batesville, Arkansas. He died on August 12, 1913. He is interred in Oakland Cemetery.

A statue of Uriah Rose is located in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

References

• U. M. Rose, "Chester Ashley," in Publications of the Arkansas Historical Association, vol. 3 (Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Historical Association, 1911), 47-73.