Born, on the 25th of March, 1833. He received his academic education at the Caryville Collegiate Seminary, Genesee County, and the Clinton (Oneida County) Liberal Institute; entered the University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, in 1852, and received his diploma four years later. He spent two years in the law department of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; took his degree of L.L.B. in 1858; came directly to Iowa, and after spending a short time at Independence, Buchanan county, settled in Clarksville in 1859. Here he has built up a fine reputation as an attorney, and attended very closely to his profession, except during three years' absence in his country's service. In the summer of 1862, when the call was made for six hundred thousand volunteers to aid in putting down the rebellion, Mr. Roszelle raised a company and went into the service as captain of company G, 32d Iowa Infantry. He was at the head of his company during three years. He was mustered out with his regiment in August, 1865. Captain Roszelle was elected to the General Assembly on the independent ticket in October, 1873, and in the session of 1874 served on the judiciary committee, and on the special committees to visit the blind asylum at Council Bluffs, and to report on the condition of the people in the district infested by grasshoppers. Captain Roszelle has been a life-long democrat, and was known during the civil strife as a war democrat. In religious sentiment he is a Universalist. On the 29th of December, 1867, Miss Mary Veber, of Clarksville, became his wife.