WI BIO - Price Co - ROSER, C. H.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
767

C. H. ROSER, hotelkeeper, Phillips [Chippewa County, Wisconsin], was born 31 
July 1838 in Bavaria, Germany, and in 1855 came with his parents to Baraboo, 
Sauk County, Wisconsin, where they located on a farm. In 1861 he [C. H. 
ROSER] enlisted in Company A, Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He served 
three years, and was mustered out in 1864. The next five years of his life 
were spent in various wanderings.

In 1869, while fishing and looking up pine, Mr. ROSER visited the place where 
Phillips [Price County] now stands, and in August 1876, came to Phillips to 
remain. [Phillips was named and platted by the Wisconsin Central Railroad in 
September 1876.] On the first train that came was a car load of lumber, with 
which he built his 16 x 32 boarding house. His customers increased so fast 
that he sent for blankets to Milwaukee, and by giving each guest a blanket, 
he would find his own place to sleep, oftentimes around camp fires and on the 
ground. In October [year?] he built his present house.

In 1878 he [C. H. ROSER] married Miss Jenette MICKLEJOHN, of Weyauwega 
[Waupaca County, Wisconsin]. They [C. H. and Jenette (MICKLEJOHN) ROSER] 
have one child, a daughter, Pearl, aged twenty-one months.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly