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Gross, Samuel Eberly

capitalist, founder. He determined upon the operations which have since made him famous as probably the greatest subdivider of real estate in the United States.

Among his many successful transactions may be noted the following: In 1880 he located the New City to the soutnwest. In 1882 he began on Chicago's northern boundary and laid out what eventuated in the flourishing village of Gross Park. In 1886 he founded the town of Brookdale on the Illinois Central railway; and opened Under-the-Linden, the villages of Calumet Heights and Dauphin Park; and in 1889 he founded Grossdale. tor, physician, surgeon, author, was born