Frederick J. Rose, deceased, was numbered among the highly esteemed and honored citizens of Willow township, where he made his home for several years and where his family still reside. He was born in Germany on the l5th of August, 1840, and in early life came to America with his parents, the family locating in Ohio, where the father died in 1868. The mother afterward came to Iowa and spent her remaining days in this state, dying here in 1889.

On reaching manhood Frederick J. Rose was married to Miss Jane Julia Steinhoff, who was born in Germany, on the 29th of September, 1844, and is a daughter of Henry and Julia (Yost) Steinhoff, both now deceased. She has three brothers and five sisters still living, while one sister is deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Rose became the parents of eleven children, nine of whom survive the father, namely: John H., born January 29, 1866, and Henry J., born October 6, 1867, own and operate a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, on which they have erected good buildings for the care of grain and stock and in the cultivation of their land use the latest improved machinery. Julia, born May 13, 1869, is the wife of John Kochart and lives south of German City. Louise M., born April 23, 1875, is the wife of John Burkhart and lives near her sister, Mrs. Kochart, on the Bluff road. Edward G., born April 14, 1878, George E., born May 13, 1880, Minnie M., born September 4, 1882, Fred A., born December 5, 1885, and Otto J., born April 26, 1889, are all at home with their mother.

It was in 1881 that Mr. Rose came to Iowa and took up his residence in Willow township, Woodbury county, where he followed general farming and stock-raising throughout the remainder of his life, coming into possession of one hundred and twenty acres of rich and arable land. He was a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church and was a Democrat in his political views. After a useful and well spent life he died on the 13th of June, 1903, leaving many friends as well as his immediate family to mourn his loss. He was five feet nine inches in height, weighed one hundred and sixty-five pounds, was of light complexion and dark hair.

Mrs. Rose and her younger children still live on the farm, which the sons now operate. Upon the place are found good grades of cattle, horses and hogs and they make a specialty of Duroc hogs, keeping seventeen sows for breeding purposes. George E. has two fine, well broken horses of the famous Wilkes stock. The sons are all fine looking young men and the family is one of prominence in the community where they reside.

Marks, Constant R., ed. Past and Present of Sioux City and Woodbury County, Iowa (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1904) 737-738 online

Note: Frederick and Jane's son Wilhelm died in November 1881 and is buried in Ohio so it's likely they came to Iowa in 1882.