Clarence Gordon Rosenbrock was born in Carson City, Nevada, May 3d, 1893. He was the second of the two sons of Henry and Sarah Tracy Rosenbrock. “Little Rosie,” as he was affectionately termed by his chums, was well known in Carson City as any boy ever was known in his home community. Among old and young alike he was held in an esteem such as is not the good fortune of every man to have; and “Little Rosie” merited all the affection that was bestowed upon him. He grew up in Carson City and graduated from the high school in 1912. Then he was given a position in the State Printing Office, where he had been working out-of-school hours since 1909.

Clarence was of an extreme patriotic nature and it was to be expected that he would offer the Nation his best at the first moment he could do so. So, on the 10th of March, 1918, he arranged his affairs in such a way that he could enlist, and volunteered his services to Uncle Sam. He signed up for the 319th Engineer Regiment then recruiting at Camp Fremont, California, being placed in the regiment train upon his arrival there. Unfortunately his health became so bad in the Service that on the 29th of May, 1918, he was given his honorable discharge for physical disability. He returned to his home in Carson City, but never recovered from his illness, and on the 1st of July, 1918, passed away in the town where he had been born and reared. Besides his parents, a brother, the late H. H. Rosenbrock, and a sister, Mrs. Lucile Bath, of Reno, survived him. Clarence was a club man and a member of the Order of Eagles in Carson City. His untimely death left a great void in the hearts of the people of Ormsby County.