Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Ross, Losson 1828 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Ross, Losson, Whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Floyd county,
Indiana, July 22, 1828. When quite young he, with his parents, moved to Harrison
county, Indiana, where he received his education. In 1849 he went to Louisiana,
where he remained until the Spring of 1850, when he moved, with his parents, to
Van Buren county, Iowa, and there joined a party, on April 5th, and started
across the plains for California, arriving at Placerville September 14, 1850,
and carried on mining for two years, after which he was engaged with Bradley,
Burdan & Co., which was. organized for the purpose of conveying water from the
Cosumnes river into the dry diggings, to facilitate mining. Here he was engaged
for about three years, when he opened up a general merchandise store in Coon
Hollow, which business he followed two years. In February, 1857, he came to this
county and settled on his present estate, consisting of three hundred acres,
where he has since resided. On September, 4, 1853, he married, on Clear creek,
El Dorado county, Miss Sydna Weeks. She was born May 15, 1833 a native of Beaver
county, Pennsylvania. By this union they have seven children: William D., born
in Coon Hollow, El Dorado county, June 30, 1854; Frank, born June 7, 1857; Kemp,
August 28, 1859; Irvin, December 3, 1861; George, January 10, 1866; Benjamin,
December 13, 1868; Anna Ella, November 21, 1875.

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HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by ALLEY, BOWEN & Co.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

PACIFIC PRESS,
Oakland, Cal. Printers., Stereotypers and Binders.


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