Born in England in 1828, Rose immigrated to Cincinnati with his family in 1838. By 1840 he was working in a slaughterhouse in "Porkopolis," as the Ohio River city was known. In 1854 he and Chauncey Prentiss opened their own meatpacking house, which was later renamed Cleveland Provision Company. It became the city's leading packinghouse, and there Rose applied many innovations, including refrigeration. He plowed some of his fortune into real estate ventures, including the construction of the Rose Building in the late 1890s. Rose also left the Rose Building and a $3 million bequest to the Benjamin Rose Institute upon his death in 1908. | Creator: E. A. Williams & Bro., N.Y. | Source: Cleveland. Cleveland: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918.Download Original File
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E. A. Williams & Bro., N.Y.
Source
Cleveland. Cleveland: Lewis Publishing Co., 1918.
"Engraved Portrait of Benjamin Rose" appears in: Rose Building
