Families of Anna L. Palmer
ANNA L. PALMER, daughter of FRANCES LATIMER HAWKINS and WILLIAM SACKETT PALMER, was born August 7, 1872 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan,973 and died May 1, 1917 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York.93, 1916
She married (1) LOUIS EDWARD ROSSE on December 24, 1896 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York.98 He was born in 1870 in New York, and died March 1, 1945 in Kings County, New York.93
She married (2) JOHN CHARLES JEBB on May 23, 1901 in Monmouth, Illinois.1468, 1469
Children of ANNA L. PALMER and LOUIS EDWARD ROSSE:
- FRANCES PALMER ROSSE, b. February 15, 1899, Brooklyn, Kings, New York;13, 1487 m. RICHARD STANLEY BARTOW in August, 19388067; d. 1961.456
Frances
Marriage Announcements and News
Waterloo Daily Reporter, May 23, 19011466
MARRIED IN BURLINGTON
JOHN JEBB—MRS. ROSSE
Sequel to Divorce Case In Blackhawk County Takes Place in Iowa River-City Story of the Divorce and Cupid's Work.
Today in Burlington Mrs. Anna Palmer Rosse will be united in marriage with John C. Jebb. March 15 last in the district court of this county Mrs. Rosse secured a divorce from her husband, Louis E. Rosse of Brooklyn. The man who today wins the divorced woman for his wife and with a brother W. H. assisted Mrs. Rosse in fighting for her freedom. By the decree the two year old daughter was given to the husband and wife alternate six months, the first six months allotted as a period when the divorced man should have the child. He accordingly took her and went to Brooklyn.
Mrs. Rosse left Waterloo the same day the divorce was secured and has not been in Waterloo since that time. It is understood that Mr. and Mrs. Jebb, accompanied by her brother, will arrive in the city tomorrow from Burlington. The brother is a personal friend of the groom and has every confidence in both his sister and his friend. The wedding of the two was anticipated at the time the divorce was secured. Both Mr. Palmer and Mr. Jebb are traveling, being in the insurance business. Owing to the prominence of the Rosses in Brooklyn the divorce proceedings attracted considerable attention. Cupid seems to have settled the matter for all time.
Des Moines Daily Capital, June 4, 19011469
ROSSEE AND JEBB MARRIED.
Affair Takes Place on the 23d Ult.—Occupied Attention of Court.
Special to the Capital.
Cedar Falls, June 4—Word was received here last evening of the marriage of Mrs. Anna Rossee and J. C. Jebb at Monmouth, Ill., on the 23 ult. They occupied the attention of the divorce court at Waterloo some time ago when Mrs. Rossee was granted a divorce. This marriage was at that time expected. Mr. Jebb and Mrs. Rossee were found by the husband registered as man and wife at a hotel in Wavelry. Mr. Jebb is said to have been a resident of Des Moines where he was interested in the insurance business of an eastern company.
Marriage Information
- Anna L. Palmer and Louis Edward Rosse were divorced on March 15, 1901 in Waterloo, Black Hawk, Iowa.1463
Newspaper Articles
New York Times, August 12, 1897110
PAYING TELLER ARRESTED
Louis E. Rossie of the Bedford Bank in Brooklyn Charged with Embezzlement.
HE ADMITS STEALING $6,250
Confessed to President Blackford that He Had Been Robbing the Bank Nearly Three Years and Had Lost the Money Betting on Horse Races.
Louis E. Rossie, paying teller of the Bedford Bank in Brooklyn, was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging him with the embezzlement of about $6,250. Previous to his arrest he made full confession to Eugene G. Blackford, President of the bank, and afterward gave a signed statement to the same effect to Lawyer Wheeler of the American Surety Company, which is on his bond. He said he had lost the money on betting on horse races.
Rossie is twenty-eight years old. He was born and educated in Brooklyn, and on Christmas Eve last married Miss Annie Palmer, a niece of ex-Senator Palmer of Illinois, at 167 State Street, the home of his uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Dobbs, where he has since resided. The bank officers gave a dinner in his honor, and made him a present of money and silverware. The couple made a tour of Westchester County on horseback during their honeymoon.
Rossie entered the service of the Bedford Bank eight years ago on a salary of $3 a week. He developed a genius for figures and an aptitude for the banking business and was promoted rapidly, until in June, 1894, having filled in turn every subordinate place, he was made paying teller with a salary of $1,700 a year. He is a member of the Irving Club, of the Crescent Athletic Club, of the Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association, and of the Nostrand Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. He was well esteemed in social and business circles, and Mr. Blackford said last night that he had a personal friend in each one of the bank's 2,000 depositors. His habits were looked upon as exemplary, and the news of his arrest astonished all who heard it.
Discovered While He Was Away.
On July 31, in accordance with the annual custom, Rossie asked for and obtained a two weeks' leave of absence. On Thursday last a sight draft drawn by him to his own order on his brother-in-law, W. H. Palmer of Detroit, through the Detroit Bank for Savings, reached the Bedford Bank protested. Investigation followed, and it was found that the draft had been entered as a credit. That was the first notification the bank officers had that anything was wrong with Rossie'S accounts. Cashier H. M. Smith and President Blackford held a consultation and decided to call in expert accountants, who found a shortage of $6,250. The money had been abstracted in sums of from $50 to $300 at a time, and the stealings extended from three months after Rossie's appointment as paying teller until the week before he went away on his vacation. The bank's books were examined on July 8 last and pronounced correct by the accountant. In his confession, Rossie said he covered the shortage for the occasion by teller's check for silver on the People's Trust Company. The draft on Detroit was drawn and entered as a credit to make the cash book balance. He said that he had attended the near-by race tracks every race day for the last three years, at first to gamble and latterly in the hope of winning enough to repay what he had stolen.
As soon as the feats of the defalsation were learned, Mr. Blackford sent for Rossie. He was out of the city, but Dr. Dobbs when informed of the occasion of the summons went after him to Connecticut and brought him back on Tuesday. He went directly to Mr. Blackford's house on St. Mark's Avenue. When Mr. Blackford spoke of the $1,000 draft he confessed everything and asked Mr. Blackford to be as lenient as possible with him. Mr. Blackford told him, if there had been only one offense, no matter how large the amount might have been, he would have made no public complaint, but he could not overlook a career of more than two years of deliberate stealing and hypocrisy. He said that he would refer the matter to the American Surety Company, which would have to bear the loss.
Efforts to Stop Prosecution.
Rossie accepted this decision, and yesterday met Mr. Blackford at the company's office and repeated his confession. The company decided to prosecute him. Mr. Blackford signed the complaint, and Rossie was arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Bristow. He had not informed his wife of his trouble, and the first news of it was taken to her by another person. She refused to believe that it was true until she convinced herself by a visit to the Adams Street Police Station, where he was locked up. She had a long interview with him, and when she left him she said she hoped to repay the stolen money and stop the prosecution. She returned to the station later in the evening, and obtained permission to sit up with her husband all night.
Her brother, W. H. Palmer, who is the general agent in Michigan for an Eastern manufacturing company, is in Brooklyn. He left Detroit the day before the draft drawn on him was presented at the bank, and knew nothing of it until one of his clerks notified him. He was very angry at first, but finally consented to see Rossie and Mrs. Rossie. Then he went to the Surety Company, and offered to refund the money stolen and to pay all the costs incurred if they would withdraw their complaint. The company declined to make any promises until after consultation with Justice Bristow.
New York Times, October 27, 18981470
SENTENCE OF LOUIS ROSSE
Cashier May Be Treated Leniently Because of Wife's Illness
Louis Rosse, the defaulting paying teller of the Bedford Bank, Brooklyn, will be arraigned to-day in the Kings County Court for sentence. His friends expect that the sentence will not exceed a year's imprisonment. Its execution will be postponed for a short time, during which Rosse will be at large. The reason for this leniency is consideration for Rosses wife. She is now in delicate health.
Mrs. Rosse is a niece of Senator John M. Palmer of Illinois, and prior to her husband's downfall they moved in good social circles in the Bedford district of Brooklyn. Rosse was arrested over a year ago, and confessed his guilt. The news was a shock to all who knew him, for he was a Sunday school teacher and prominent socially. He was young and ambitious, and there was apparently a bright career before him. The amount of his defalcation was $6,250, which was made good by the American Surety Company. The company recently began proceedings against Rosse to compel him to refund the amount, with costs.
Waterloo Daily Courier, December 19, 19001464
DIVORCE IS WANTED
Louis Edward Rosse Makes Serious Charges in Petition.
Through his attorney, Boles & Boles of this city Louis Edward Rosse has begun an action in district court for a divorce from his wife, Anna Palmer Rosse, and to obtain custody of his minor child, Francis Palmer Rosse.
The charges made against the wife are stated at length in the petition which covers several pages of typewritten manuscript.
Mr. and Mrs. Rosse were married in Hobokon, New Jersey, Oct. 1, 1896, and lived together until the 5th day of last May in Brooklyn, N. Y., when the petitioner alleges Mrs. Rosse left his home for a visit at Detroit, Mich., and at Cedar Falls, Iowa. It is stated she remained at Detroit, one month and has, since then, until the past ten days or so, visited with relatives at Cedar Falls.
In accordance with the prayer of the petition Judge Platt has issued a writ of injunction giving the charge of the minor child to Mrs. W. R. Graham at Cedar Falls.
DEFENDANT MAKES DENIAL.
An answer to the petition has been filed in which the defendant denies each and every allegation, except that she and plaintiff were married as stated and that there was born to them a child, Francis Palmer Rosse. The defendant asks that the petition be dismissed and that the injunction be dissolved and that she be given possession again of her child.
Waterloo Daily Reporter, March 16, 19011465
TAKES CHILD.
Father Goes to Brooklyn With Girl, Leaving Divorced Wife.
Louis E. Rosse, until yesterday afternoon the husband of Anna Palmer Rosse, has taken his two-year-old daughter and gone east, presumably to his home in Brooklyn.
By the decree as told in yesterday's Reporter the child is given to parents alternately six months of the year. The father is to have the little one the first half-year according to the agreement.
After securing the divorce yesterday, Mrs. Rosse and J. C. Jebb, named as co-respondent by the husband when he first began action for divorce, left the city for Cedar Falls on the interurban. Will Palmer, the brother, remained here.
Mr. Palmer expressed no ill feeling toward Mr. Rosse. It seems Mr. and Mrs. Rosse led too luxurious a society life in Brooklyn and he embezzled money to keep up expenses. Through the efforts of prominent friends he was saved from being sent to prison, and it was on the grounds of his felony that the divorce was granted. Mr. and Mrs. Rosse had considerable money at one time. Finally the money being gone and Mr. Rosse in trouble they practically agreed to separate. She came west where she met Mr. Jebb.
A Cedar Falls attorney wrote the husband his wife and the man above were keeping company. Rosse came here and started divorce proceedings. She filed a cross bill and later an agreement was made between them and the suit withdrawn. The costs of the proceedings which ended in a divorce for Mrs. Rosse were equally shared between the two principals.
Cedar Rapids Republican, March 16, 19011467
MRS. ROSSE GETS A DIVORCE
Case Which Has Caused Much Comment at Waterloo
Waterloo, March 15.—A divorce was granted to Anna Palmer Rosse from Louise E. Rosse this afternoon at 3:45 o'clock by Judge Blair on the grounds of the husband having been previously convicted of a felony.
Some weeks ago Judge Platt made an order directing the sheriff of Waverly to get the two-year-old daughter of the couple, then with the mother at the hotel in Waverly, where she was stopping, and take it to Mrs. W. R. Graham, an aunt of the wife, where it has been since.
There has been much discussion of this especial case on account of the friendship for Mrs. Rosse of J. C. Jebb, who travels for the National Loan and Trust Co., and who has been criticised by the husband for alleged alienating the affections of his wife. A brother of Mrs. Rosse, Will Palmer, has been with his sister almost continuously since the breach between wife and husband. Mr. Palmer and Mr. Jebb both represent the National Loan and Trust Co. of Des Moines.
By the decree of divorce the daughter is given to the former husband and wife alternate six months. Mrs. Rosse is said to possess considerable means. At present Mesrs. Palmer and Jebb and the divorced lady are stopping at the Logan hotel.
At the time the child was taken from the mother at Waverly pending an investigation of the case by the court, there was considerable excitement caused, the husband being present and very much agitated. The parties concerned in the divorce case hail from Brooklyn, N. Y., where they formerly lived.
Semi Weekly Cedar Falls Gazette, March 19, 19011463
Rosse Case Settled.
In the case of Rosse vs Rosse, which has attracted considerable attention and comment here, has been settled; and Mr. Rosse left for New York, Saturday morning, taking with him his child Frances, whose custody was given him by Judge Blair in the District court. Mr. Rosse came out to Iowa early in December and after an investigation of his wife's conduct with a certain John C. Jebb, of St. Louis, brought action against her for divorce, upon the ground of unfaithfulness. Mrs. Rosse was at the time in Waverly with this Jebb, who was named as co-respondent. The little child of the parties was taken from Mrs. Rosse by Judge Platt, and held under the order of this court, until a final disposition should be made of the case. Overtures for a settlement were made to Mr. Rosse by his wife's attorneys, and the negotiations resulted in his gaining possession of his child, while Mrs. Rosse was permitted to obtain a degree of divorce upon her cross-bill, no alimony was allowed.
Mr. Rosse made many friends while in Cedar Falls and the entire community is in sympathy with him, and glad to know that the child did not go into improper hands.
Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette, May 13, 19011472
A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM
Biblical Prophecy Fulfilled in Waterloo Case, of Interest Here.
Concerning the climax of an important divorce case, which attracted no little attention here at the time it was commenced, because both parties had many acquaintances in this city, the Waterloo Courier says:
"A little child, a winsome and bewitching baby, was the moving power yesterday which brought together a father and mother suing for divorce and made it possible through an arrangement of the attorneys in the case to reach and agreement by which the separation of the two was accomplished without having ventilated in open court the sensational and serious charges and countercharges made in petitions and cross-bills.
"The case was that of Louis E. Rosse vs. Anna Palmer Rosse. It was started several months ago when Mr. Rosse came to Waterloo from Brooklyn, N. Y., and filed a petition asking a divorce from his wife. Mrs. Rosse had been living with Mrs. W. R. Graham at Cedar Falls. She filed a cross bill and by an agreement reached yesterday the divorce was granted shortly before four o'clock by Judge Blair. In granting the divorce Judge Blair entered the following on his docket:
" 'Plaintiff's petition dismissed without prejudice at plaintiff's request. Plaintiff defaulted for want of an answer to defendant's cross petition. Trial to court. Decree of divorce on defendant's cross bill as prayed. Custody of minor child to be given to the father for the first six months from this date, and then for six months to this defendant mother of said child, and then alternately to father and mother of said child until the child is 12 years of age. Judgment for costs and decree as per stipulation on file except that the child is to be provided for until 12 years of age as before decreed.'
"The father and mother of the child were both in the court room when the decree was entered and the entire matter was closed up quickly and quietly as possible. Mr. Rosse took the child last night and started for his home in the east, where he will place the little one in the care of his father and mother. At the end of six months the mother will go east and claim the baby for the time allotted her by the court.
"The little child which brought about the quiet ending of what in one stage promised to be one of the most hotly contested battles fought in Blackhawk county courts, for years, is only 22 months old.
Semi Weekly Iowa State Reporter, October 29, 19011468
JEBB IN THE TOILS
Indicted at Des Moines for Embezzlement
WELL KNOWN IN WATERLOO
Figured in Sensational Divorce Case While Here
Embezzlements are Alleged to be of Funds Collected in This and Bremer Counties—Full Amount is Unknown But Reaches Large Sum.
From Des Moines comes the intelligence that the Polk county grand jury has found an indictment against Chas. J. Jebb, charging him with embezzlement. It is alleged that the offense was committed while Jebb was working in Waterloo and adjacent towns as agent for the National Life and Trust Co., of Des Moines. It is claimed that the agent rendered fictitious accounts of his work in this section and that he collected considerable sums of money from applicants for insurance and endowment policies, which were never reported to the home office nor paid in by him. The full amount that may have been thus appropriated by the agent is as yet unknown, but there is evidence that several hundred dollars was thus withheld by him that should have been remitted.
When the indictment was returned Jebb had already been placed under arrest in Peoria, Ill., at the instance of the Des Moines officials and the sheriff of Polk county has gone to that place to bring him back to Iowa.
The arrest of Mr. Jebb recalls one of the most sensational divorce proceedings though not culminating in a public trial, ever known in the history of Iowa. The prominence of the relatives of the wife, whom he met and married under the most extraordinary circumstances, adds great interest to the case. Jebb was a married man at the time he met his present wife, and she had a husband living, Louis Rosse, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Rosse left her Brooklyn home in the spring of 1900, presumably to visit her uncle, Senator Palmer of Detroit. After stopping in that city for a short time she proceeded to Cedar Falls to visit her aunt, Mrs. W. R. Graham, whose husband is Major Graham, paymaster in the United States army at Manila. Mr. Jebb, with C. E. Finney, at present state agent of the National Life & Trust company for Missouri, was working northern Iowa and had headquarters at Waterloo. There Jebb met the woman for whom two divorces were afterward granted in order that they might wed.
The acquaintance of the couple was made at the home of a mutual friend, and from that time an attachment between the pair was apparent. On different occasions Mr. Jebb gave dinner parties for Mrs. Rosse and several of her friends. On all of these occasions his devotion to her was marked and it was not long before the gossips had begun to connect their names and a scandal seemed imminent. Mr. Jebb was a frequent caller at the home of Major Graham in Cedar Falls and until it leaked out that he had a wife in St. Louis and she a husband in Brooklyn they were received in the best homes in that city.
The Scandal Develops
The Grahams were eminently respectable and when the talk grew noisome Mrs. Graham protested against their indiscretions. Her son, a young lawyer of Cedar Falls, was even more outspoken in his opposition to the much discussed relationship and finally unbeknown to others interested, he wrote Mrs. Rosse's husband, telling him of the circumstances and advising him to come to Cedar Falls.
The strained relations between Mrs. Rosse and her relatives grew so intense that she left their home and entered a boarding house nearby. Jebb, at that time transferred his business to Waverly and established headquarters at the Fortner house. It was not long before Mrs. Rosse and her child were stopping at the same hotel.
They Stopped at the Same Hotel.
When Mr. Rosse appeared on the scene and learned that the pair was living at Waverly he instituted divoce proceedings, engaging as attorneys the well known law firm of Boles & Boles of which Ex-Governor Horace Boles is senior member. In addition to divorce proceedings Mr. Rosse sought to gain possession of his child and writ of habeas corpus was given to the sheriff of Blackhawk county for service.
The officer sought Mrs. Rosse at the hotel at Waverly and served the notice upon her in her room. She was occupying apartments adjoining the room of Mr. Jebb and there were doors connecting. What the sheriff saw there occupied a prominent part of the petition afterward filed in the action begun by Rosse for a divorce from his wife.
His Wardrobe In Her Room.
Among the charges were that a considerable portion of Mr. Jebb's wardrobe was found in Mrs. Rosse's room. In explanation of this circumstance Mrs. Rosse afterwards said that she had the clothing simply for the purpose of doing some mending for Mr. Jebb in return for the many kindnesses he had done her.
In answer to her husband's petition for divorce Mrs. Rosse filed a counter-charge, alleging as grounds for action that her husband had been convicted of embezzlement under the laws of New York, though saved from the penitentiary by the influence of her uncle, Senator Palmer of Michigan.
When the case developed into such a decided sensation, the relatives of Mrs. Rosse, who were championing the cause of her husband, prevailed upon them both to settle the proceedings without a public trial. In the meantime Mr. Jebb had secured a divorce from his wife, a wealthy lady of St. Louis. As soon as the court had freed his new love of the marital fetters that had bound her to Mr. Rosse, Mr. and Mrs. Jebb were married at Monmouth, Ill.
It is a singular coincidence that the charge now resting against Jebb is the same as that which, in her petition for divorce, Mrs. Rosse alleged her husband had been convicted of, though saved by the influence of Senator Palmer.
Obituaries
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 2, 19171916
ROSSE—On May 1, 1917, Mrs. ANNA P. ROSSE, at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. H. L. Cochran, 141 Clinton st, Brooklyn. Funeral private.
Cedar Falls Record, May 10, 1917773
Mrs. LeClair Martin received a telegram yesterday afternoon announcing the sudden death Tuesday night of her cousin, Mrs. Anna Palmer Rosse, which occurred at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Henry L. Cochrane, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Frances Rosse, 17 years of age. Mrs. Rosse formerly visited here at the home of her aunt, the late Mrs. W. R. Graham. Mrs. Martin received the message too late to attend the burial services.
New York Times, March 4, 1945957
Rosse — Louis E., on Thursday, March 1, 1945, beloved father of Frances R. Bartow. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn, on Saturday at 8 P.M.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| June 4, 1880953 | Brooklyn, Kings, New York |
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| June 9, 1900810 | Cedar Falls, Black Hawk, Iowa | |
| June 1, 19051957 | Brooklyn, Kings, New York |
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| April 16, 1910954 | Brooklyn, Kings, New York |
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