Dr. Rothe was educated in the Collegiate College in New York City and in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, also of New York, receiving therefrom the degree of M.D. Since graduation he has been actively and successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and for a time as a druggist and chemist. He is now the Pennsylvania Railroad surgeon for Harrison, where he resides.

In the Civil War Dr. Rothe enlisted in Company B, First Regiment (Washington Greys), N. G. N. J., under Captain Cox. He was also for a time on the United States steamer "Mercedita," as Surgeon's Steward and Assistant, IT. S. N. Afterward he enlisted in the Thirty-ninth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, and had charge of the brigade medical supplies of the First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps, and served until the end of the war in the field hospital. In political as well as in professional life Dr. Rothe has achieved prominence. He has served as Treasurer and Assessor of Harrison. was the first Postmaster of the town, and was Deputy County Physician of Hudson County from 1879 to 1895. He is a Commissioner of Deeds and a Notary Public, has served as Deputy Coroner of Hudson County, and has been a delegate to numerous town, county, State, and Congressional conventions. He is a member and examiner of Hon. E. F. McDonald Council, Royal Arcanum, Surgeon of the Boggs Association of Naval Veterans, and a member of Lincoln Post, No. 11, G. A. R., and the Union Veteran Union.