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Ross, Frank Ward – Ross, Miles

Ross, Frank Ward

physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born July 10, 1859, in Horseheads. N. Y. He has been president of the Elmira Academy of Medicine; professor of X-ray and medico-legal electricity in the National college of Electro-therapeutics; and was formerly lecturer on electro-therapeutics at Niagara university. He is a successful scientist and medical electrician; and has contributed many papers and given many lectures to medical and scientific bodies. the

Ross, Frederick Augustus

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1796, in Cobham, Va. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Huntsville, Ala.; and the author of Slavery as Ordained of God. died April 13, 1883, in Huntsville, Ala.

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Ross, George

signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1730 in New Castle, Del. In 1768 he was elected to the colonial legislature; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777; and was one of the signers of the declaration of independence. In 1779 he was appointed judge of the court of admiralty for Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1779, in Lancaster, Pa.

Ross, Henry Howard

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Essex county, N. Y. For fifty years he was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827; and was county judge of Essex county in 1847 and 1848. He was a presidential elector in 1848, heading the state ticket, and officiating as president of the electoral college. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in Essex, N. Y.

Ross, James

educator, author. He published a Greek Grammar in Latin; translated the Shorter Catechism into Latin; and wrote a number of poems in Latin. He died in September, 1786.

Ross, James

lawyer, United States senator, was born July 12, 1762, in York county, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Pennsylvania from 1794 to 1803. He died Nov. 27, 1847, in Allegheny City, Pa.

Ross, John

merchant, was born Jan. 29, 1726, in Ross, Scotland. In 1775 he was appointed muster-master of the Pennsylvania navy. In 1776 he was employed by the committee of commerce of congress to purchase clothes, arms, and powder for the use of the army. He died in March, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ross, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1815 to 1818, having resigned.

Ross, Lawrence Sullivan

soldier, governor, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in Bentonport, Iowa. He became colonel of the sixth Texas regiment of cavalry in the confederate army in 1862; and was made brigadier-general in 1863. In 1886 he became governor of Texas.

Ross, Leonard Fulton

soldier, lawyer, was born July 18, 1823, in Fulton county, Ill. He was chosen in 1861 colonel of the seventeenth Illinois regiment which he had raised; and was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in April 25, 1862. In 1867 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the ninth district of Illinois. He has imported fine stock into this country, and has a large farm in Iowa.

Ross, Lewis W

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Seneca county, N. Y. In 1840 and 1844 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1848. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtyninth and fortieth congresses as a democrat.

Ross, Miles

merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born April 30, 1828, in Raritan township, N. J. He was a representative to the New Jersey state legislature for two years. In 1874 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.