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Born 1788
From The history of Warren County, Ohio .. (1882)
THOMAS R. ROSS.
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A personal friend of Mr. Ross, in an obituary notice, wrote of him as follows: “Associated in Congress with so many good and great men, it is n strange that his defeat for another term was to him a severe blow, and one from which he could never rally. The loss of his seat subjected him to a trial tk great for him,, and perhaps for any man of his ardent temperament. Tru requires me to say this much, and for years afterward he seemed, to find relief from disappointed hopes only in the effects of stimulating drinks. Giving wi to this indulgence, the appetite soon became uncontrollable, and for years
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In 1811, Mr. Ross was married to Harriet Van Horne, a daughter of Re William Van Horne, a Baptist clergyman and a Chaplain during the Revolutionary war. She survived her husband, with a family of six children.
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