Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Gross, Orsemus 
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Author: 1883 Mecosta Co. Portrait & Bio Album

ORSEMUS GROSS, farmer, sec. 28, Deerfield Tp., P. O. Morley, was born in New 
Lisbon, Otseog Co., N. Y.  His 

parents were natives of the same State.  His mother, Nancy (Patrick) Gross, 
died in the fall of 1843; his 

father, Ellis Gross resides in Steuben Co., N. Y.

At the age of 15 Mr. Gross went to Pennsylvania, where he engage in farming 
and lumbering three years, and 

then obtained work on the Erie Canal.  On the outbreak of the Rebellion of the 
Southern States he enlisted 

in the Thirty-fourth N. Y. Vol. Inf., and served two years, the full period 
for which he enrolled, and 

received an honorable discharge.  He was in the engagement at Gaines' Mills, 
Antietam, Fairfax Court-House 

and in the battle of the Wilderness.  On his discharge he returned to 
Pennsylvania and at once proceeded to 

Mecosta Co., Mich., and bought 40 acres of land in Deerfield Tp.  It was then 
in a wild condition, but he 

has nearly his entire acreage in a good state of cultivation, and lately 
improved by a new frame house.  Mr. 

Gross adheres to the principles advocated by the Democratic party.

He was married Oct. 22, 1869, to Jeannette, daughter of Alanson and Esther A. 
(Hedges) Rickar.  Her parents 

are natives of New York and came to Mecosta County in the winter of 1865.  
Mrs. Gross was born May 22, 1849. 

 To Mr. and Mrs. Gross three children were born, as follows:  Alphonso G., 
Aug. 22, 1870; Ella A., June 14, 

1873; Mabel A., Dec. 24, 1878.

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