Eugene Wesley Ross of Derry, NH Biography from A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire (1915)

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Source: A History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
         by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill, 1915

Page 1075

   EUGENE WESLEY ROSS, a member of the firm of E. W. Ross &
Son, milk dealers, of Derry, N. H., whose farm is located on Crystal Avenue,
was born in Princeton, Mass., in 1860, where he was reared and educated.
At the age of twenty-five he went to Boston, Mass., where he was employed
in a bottling works for a short time, afterwards going to work in Tower's

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piano factory, where he remained for four years.  His next employment was
on a farm in Cohasset, Mass., where he spent two years and a half, subse-
quently going to Attleboro, where for six years he drove a milk wagon.  He
then followed the same line of work in Boston, Mass., for seven years, after
which, May 6, 1909, he came to Derry and bought out the milk route of
Clarence Knight, being located on East Broadway for about a year.  At the
end of that time he came to his present farm on Crystal Avenue, known as
the Folsom farm, which he purchased and where he has since carried on a
successful business as dairyman, being associated with his son Bert.  They
have ten head of cows, and run two wagons.  They have 15 acres in the
farm.
   Mr. Ross was married at the age of twenty-one years to Miss Martha
Haywood of Malden, Mass., who died a number of years ago.  Of this mar-
riage there was one child, Bert, whom we have mentioned above.  Bert Ross
married Viola May Wilson of East Cambridge, Mass., but formerly of Port-
land, Me.  They have two children, Herbert and Raymond.