Colbert County AlArchives Biographies.....Ross, Richard L. October 26 1825 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   RICHARD L. ROSS, druggist and county treasurer of Colbert county, was born
near Triana, Madison county, October 26, 1825. He is a son of Alexander and
Elizabeth (Cooper) Ross, the former of whom was a native of Spottsylvania
county, Va., born there about 1783, and the latter was also a native of
Virginia, born in 1810. After their marriage they removed to Frankfort, Ky.,
where he carried on brick making and contracting till 1825, and then located
near Triana, Madison county, Ala., where he engaged in farming; in 1834 he
removed to Decatur; in 1847 to Tuscumbia, and finally, in 1848, he removed to
Lawrence county, where he died in 1849. The Ross family came originally from
Italy in the person of Vincent Ross, father of Alexander Ross, who came to this
country when eighteen years of age, locating in Virginia, and raising a large
family. Richard L. Ross was well educated, receiving five years' schooling at
Tuscumbia. He entered a grocery store as salesman when eighteen years of age. In
1846 he engaged in the drug business and has ever since then been engaged in
this business with the exception of two years during the war, when he was clerk
for the chief surgeon of Gen. Roddy's men, one-half of this time from May, 1864,
to the close. In 1883 he was appointed, by the governor of the state, treasurer
of Colbert county to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Patterson, who had resigned.
In 1884 he was elected by the people to that office for a term of four-years. In
1888 he was defeated in his candidacy for re-election, but in 1892 he was again
a candidate and was elected by a handsome majority of 430 votes. He has always
been a democrat in politics. He was married in October, 1871, to Martha E.,
daughter of L. B. Cooper, deceased, one of Tuscumbia' s most brilliant lawyers,
and to this marriage has been born one child, a daughter. Mr. Ross is a
prominent member of the-Knights of Pythias, Knights of Honor and Knights and
Ladies of Honor.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 698-699


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