Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Ross, Thomas H May 27, 1845 - 
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Deb Haines ddhaines@gmail.com February 10, 2006, 4:25 am

Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

Thomas H. ROSS, miner, Morris, was born in Stark Co., Ohio, May 27, 1845, and 
here he lived until twenty years old, at which time, being a member of the 
Ohio National Guards, he with his regiment, was called into active service. In 
this enlistment, he served four months in Kentucky and Tennessee, after which 
he enlisted in Company A, of the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Regiment Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, remaining in the field until the close of the war. He came 
to Grundy County, Ill., in 1870, and worked in the coal mines of Braceville 
Township until 1876, when he came to Morris, and associated himself with Mr. 
JOHNSON in the mining business, the firm known as JOHNSON & ROSS. He 
subsequently became owner of the entire mine, but soon sold a half-interest to 
A. F. MALLORY. The partnership continued one year, when Henry BURRELL became 
the successor of Mallory. Since then the firm has been known as BURRELL & 
ROSS, now operating on the line of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 
Railroad. On the 8th of September, 1875, Mr. ROSS was married, to Miss Bell 
PEACOCK, daughter of John PEACOCK, one of the first settlers of the county; 
she was born in Morris September 19, 1844. They have two daughters - Gertrude 
I., born December 30, 1876; and Lizzie H., born June 4, 1881. Mr. ROSS is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity; his wife is a member of the Episcopalian 
Church. They own thirty acres of valuable property in the eastern part of the 
city, adjoining the paper car-wheel manufactory. Their residence is on Fremont 
avenue, west of Nettle Creek.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/grundy/bios/ross110nbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ilfiles/

File size: 2.3 Kb