Steve VanderVeen: John Roost and his love of business, polit

John Roost was born in 1823 in the city of Harderwijk, in the province of Gelderland, The Netherlands. In 1847, he immigrated to Holland but continued to Grand Rapids where he found work as a wheelwright.

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