George Ross

As printed in 1890

EORGE ROSS, who is engaged in farming ill ( on section 20, in the town of Spring Val- "'Ij ley, was born in Jackson Township, Harrison County, Iowa, March 13, 18.56, and is the son of William and Salina (Johnson) Ross. Both of his parents were natives of England, his father born in Yorkshire, September 6. 18.34, and his mother in Cheshire, April 4, 1836. Jonathan Ross, the paternal grandfather of our subject, came to the United Stfates from England, and settled in New Jersey, when his son, William, was about eleven years of age. From that State, in 1851, he removed to Council Bluffs, and a short time after to Crescent City, Pottawattamie County, where he is still living, having reached the age of seventy'-eight years.

William Ross, the father of our subject, is a resident of Jackson Township, Harrison County, where he is engaged in carrying on a large farm. He is the parent of nine children, of whom our subject is the second. George was reared upon his father's farm, and received the elements of a good education in the common schools of his native county, but on his marriage left the parental roof and established a home of his own on a farm in Harrison County. There he remained until March 8, 1886, when he came to Monona County and settled on the place where he now lives. In his political views Mr. Ross is a Democrat, but sometimes votes the Union Labor ticket. Having the interest of the agricultural classes at heart, he was for some time connected with the Farmers' Alliance.

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As printed in History of Monona County, Iowa; containing full-page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the Gove (1890). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.