OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



JOSEPH GEORGE ROSENGARTEN. 



(Read February 4, J921.) 



Joseph George Rosengarten, third son of George D. Rosengarten 

 and Elizabeth Bennett, was born in Philadelphia, July 14, 1835. 



He received his early education in private schools of this city 

 and for a time came under the influence of a scholarly man in York, 

 Pa., the Rev. Charles West Thomson, who aroused in him a liking for 

 literature that became an abiding habit and accounted for the aston- 

 ishing voracity in reading that marked him to the end. He passed 

 from the old Academy (the institution out of which grew the Col- 

 lege and University of Pennsylvania) to the College itself and re- 

 ceived his degree of A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1852 at the early age of seventeen, and three years later the degree 

 of M.A. After graduation he studied law in the office of Henry M. 

 Phillips, one of the leaders of the Philadelphia Bar, and was ad- 

 mitted to practice in 1856. The elder Rosengarten, realizing the 

 extraordinary value of foreign study and travel, sent four of his 

 sons abroad to prepare themselves for their future careers. In 

 pursuance of this plan Joseph Rosengarten went abroad shortly 

 after being admitted to practice, to study history and Roman law 

 at the University of Heidelberg and to engage in travel. In this 

 way he was thrown into contact with men of distinction in various 

 fields and acquired that appreciation of scholarship which grew ever 

 stronger with the passing years. Besides the eminent men at that 

 time at the University of Heidelberg, among them Haeusser, the 

 professor of history, and Vangerow, the professor of law, he met 

 among others during his European studies, James Fitzjames Stephen, 

 the great jurist, and his equally famous brother Leslie Stephen. 



Returning to this country in 1857, it was not long before the 

 rumbling of the thunder in the distance was heard. By a curious 



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