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Source:
History of Greene County, Ohio,
its people, industries & institutions
by Hon. M. A. Broadstone, Editor in Chief -
Vol. I. & II.
Publ. B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
1918
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WHITELAW
REID, a son of Robert Charlton and Marian (Ronalds)
Reid, one of the greatest of American journalists and
diplomatists, was born near Cedarville, Ohio, Oct. 27, 1837.
He received his bachelor degree at Miami University in 1856
and his master degree at the same school three years later.
He also had a large number of Honorary degrees conferred on
him later in life, such universities as Princeton, Yale,
Cambridge (England), St. Andrews (Scotland), Oxford
(England) and Manchester (England) doing him this honor.
His first newspaper experience was gained on the
Xenia News, of which paper he was editor in 1858-1859.
From 1860 to 1868 he was on the staff of the Cincinnati
Gazette, first as legislative correspondent (1860-1861),
later as war correspondent (1861-1862), and still later as
Washington correspondent (1862-1868). In 1868 he went
on the staff of the New York Tribune and four years
later he became chief proprietor and editor of the paper,
continuing as such until 1905. To sum up his
achievements from 1872 until his death in 1914 would be to
set forth a long and distinguished list of public positions
which he held. Among these may be mentioned in the
following: United States minister to France,
1889-1892; Republican nominee for vice-president of United
States, 1892; special ambassador of the United States to
Queen Victoria's jubilee, 1897; member of peace commission
in Paris, 1898; special ambassador to England for coronation
of King Edward, 1902; United States ambassador to England
from 1905 until his death. He was the author of nearly
a score of volumes of wide character, ranging from "Ohio in
the Civil War" and "Newspaper Tendencies" to "Problems of
Expansion" and "How America Faced Its Educational Problems."
He married Elizabeth Mills, daughter of D. O.
Mills, on April 26, 1881.
(Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, its
people, industries & institutions by Hon. M. A. Broadstone,
Editor in Chief - Vol. I.- Publ. 1918 by B. F. Bowen &
Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.) |
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JOHN W. ROSS.
John W. Ross, foreman of the Cedarville Lime Company,
was born in Cedarville, on Nov. 18, 1861, son of James
and Honora (Murray) Ross, natives of Ireland, whose last
days were spent in Cedarville, of which place they had been
residents for years.
Both James Ross and his wife Honora were
born in County Down, Ireland, and lived there until after
their marriage in 1845, when they came to the United States
and proceeded on out to Ohio, locating at Xenia. James
Ross was an expert stonemason and upon taking up his
residence in Xenia became there engaged working at his trade
and so continued until 1858, when he moved to Cedarville and
was working at his trade there when the Civil War broke out.
He enlisted as a member of Company D, Twelfth Regiment. Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, in the first year of the war and with
that command served until he was mustered out on June 18,
1865. Mr. Ross participated in
forty-seven battles and was twice severely wounded, being
shot once through the left shoulder and once through the
right foot. Upon the completion of his military
service he returned to Cedarville and resumed his work as a
stonemason, while thus engaged building bridges all over the
county. In July, 1882, he suffered a fatal sunstroke
while working on a railroad-bridge job. His widow
survived him until 1887. They were members of the
Catholic church at Xenia and were the parents of twelve
children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the seventh
in order of birth, the others being the following:
Elizabeth, now deceased, who was the wife of Michael
Dailey; James, also now deceased, who was a
railway brakeman in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company; Rose, wife of John Osborn, of
Xenia; Mary Ellen, deceased; Daniel, of
Xenia; Kate, who is now living in Darke county, Ohio;
William, deceased; Charles, who is now living
at Peoria, Illinois, where he is employed as a stationary
engineer; Harry, deceased; Richard, now a
resident of Dayton, Ohio, and Honora, widow of
Milton Jones, of Xenia.
John W. Ross was reared at Cedarville and
received his schooling in the public schools of that city.
As a boy he learned the trade of painter and for some time
worked at that trade. He then was made custodian of
the public schools and for twenty-two years held that
position. On Jan. 1, 1918, he was made foreman of the
plant of the Cedarville Lime Company. Mr. Ross
is a Republican. For thirty-five years he has rendered
service as a member of the Cedarville fire department, for
fourteen years served as constable and for some time was a
member of the common council. He is affiliated with
the Cedarville lodges of the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias.
On July 15, 1885, John W. Ross was united in
marriage to May Conley, who was born at
Clifton, and to this union four children have been born,
namely: Effie, who is now a teacher in the Spring
Valley schools; Lillie, who is teaching in the
Cedarville schools; Bessie, also formerly a teacher,
who married Ernest Rulls, of Dayton, and has
one child, a daughter, Phyllis; and Cameron,
who was graduated from the Cedarville high school in 1915,
taught school for two years and following this country's
declaration of war against Germany in 1917 enlisted for
service. He entered the third officers' training camp,
and was commissioned second lieutenant. Mr. and
Mrs. Ross are members of the Reformed Presbyterian
(Covenanter) church at Cedarville, as are their children.
The Ross children early began to turn their
attention to the teaching profession and for a time all at
one time were thus engaged, two of the daughters still
continuing their teaching service and the soldier son
expecting to resume teaching upon the completion of his
military service.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 459 |
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ROBERT A. ROSS.
Robert A. Ross, a well-known farmer and landowner of
Greene county, now, living retired at Bowersville, his farm
two miles north of that village being operated by his sons,
Ralph and Earl Ross, was born in Monroe
county, Virginia (now in West Virginia), July 3, 1845, son
of James A. and Martha (Nickell) Ross, both of whom
were born in that same county, the former a son of Robert
Ross, who came to Ohio and became a resident of
Greene county.
James A. Ross grew up in his home county in
Virginia, married there and remained there until 1847, when
he came with his family to Ohio and located on a farm of two
hundred and seventy-nine acres in what in 1858 came to be
organized as Jefferson township, this county. That
farm was partly cleared when he took possession of it and he
set about getting the place under way for cultivation, but
was struck by a falling tree in 1851, receiving such
injuries to his head and breast that he died eighteen months
later, at twenty-six years of age, leaving his widow with
three children, of whom Robert A. was the eldest, the
others being Mary, who married Clark Housington
and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and Jennie
Virginia, who married William Raum and
also moved to Nebraska, now living in tlie vicinity of Ft.
Robinson, that state. The widow Ross
married Edwin Drury, who died at Jamestown,
this county, after which she went to California, where she
died at the age of seventy-three years. She was a
member of the Presbyterian church. By her second
marriage she was the mother of a son, Edwin D. Drury,
who is now living in Oklahoma.
Robert A. Ross was but six or seven years of age
when his father died. He received some schooling in
the Jamestown schools and when thirteen years of age began
working for his grandfather, Robert Ross,
remaining on the latter's farm until his marriage when
twenty-five years of age, after which he established his
home on a farm two miles north of Bowersville, where he
remained until his retirement from the farm in 1907 and
removal to Bowersville, where he has since resided.
Mr. Ross owns a well-kept farm of fifty-seven
acres, which is now being operated by his sons, Ralph
and Earl, who have rented the place from their father
and are successfully operating the same. During his
active operations on the farm Mr. Ross gave
considerable attention to the raising of cattle and hogs and
did well. He is a Democrat and has rendered public
service as a member of the Bowersville town council.
On Dec. 28, 1869, Robert A. Ross was united in
marriage to Margaret Angeline Miller, who also
was born in Monroe county, Virginia, daughter of Thomas
and Margaret (Neal) Miller, and to this union nine
children have been born, those besides the two sons,
Ralph and Earl, mentioned above, being Bernard
Lee, a farmer in the neighboring county of Clinton,
who married Minnie Turner and has three
children. Emma, Lila and Ada; Fred,
a Bowersville merchant, who married Mary Dubbs
and has four children, Margaret, Robert,
Eugene and Loyal; Hubert, a merchant at
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who married Lillie Geiger
and has two children. Robert G. and
Catherine; Wilbur, dealer in live stock, coal and
building material at Bowersville, who married Elvie
Hussey and has one child, a son, Donald;
Carl, employed by Campbell & Company, wholesale
grocers at Washington Court House, this state, who married
Bertha Furgason and has two children,
Evelyn and Gail; Minnie, who married
Chester Brown, a farmer of the Port William
neighborhood, and has three children. Hazel,
Mary and Jeannette, and Myrtle, who
married Howard Bowmaster, now a teacher in the
schools of Springfield, this state, and has three children,
Dorothy. Elvia and Lowell.
Ralph married Burnie Chaney and their two
children are deceased. Mr. and Mrs.
Ross are members of the Methodist Protestant church.
Source: History of Greene County, Ohio, Vol. II - publ. by
B. F. Bowen & Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Ind.,
1918 - Page 899-900 |
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