Columbia-Multnomah-Baker County OR Archives Biographies.....Ross, M. D., Levi Gilbert October 1879 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 35-36
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     High on the list of the able and successful physicians of the Columbia 
River valley stands the name of Dr. Levi G. Ross, of St. Helens, Oregon, where 
he has been engaged in the practice of his profession continuously since 1910. 
He was born at Avon, Wisconsin, in October, 1879, and is a son of William M. 
and Clara (Ross) Ross, who though of the same name were not related. His 
father was reared to the life of a farmer in Wisconsin, but later turned his 
attention to educational affairs, teaching school for a number of years and 
serving as county superintendent of schools of Rock county, that state. Later 
he went to Janesville, Wisconsin, where he was employed in newspaper work on 
the staff of the Janesville Gazette for several years. In 1905 he came to St. 
Helens, Oregon, and, liking the appearance of the place, made a few 
investments. In 1906 he established the first bank in Columbia county, known 
as the Columbia County Bank, of which he was the first president and cashier. 
A few years later he established a bank at Scappoose, Oregon. He was greatly 
interested in the development of St. Helens, serving as mayor and on the city 
council. His death occurred October 17, 1916. He was married twice, by the 
first union having two children, Levi Gilbert, of this review, and Mrs. Amy 
Knutson, of Hadley, Minnesota. By his second marriage he became the father of 
two children, Harold, who enlisted for service in the World war and died at 
Vancouver Barracks from the "flu," and Dr. Cecil J., who is engaged in the 
practice of medicine in Portland, Oregon.

     Levi G. Ross received his early education in the public schools of 
Janesville, Wisconsin, after which he matriculated in the medical school of 
Northwestern University, at Chicago, from which he was graduated with the 
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1907. He paid his own way through college by 
working at various occupations. He then came to Portland, Oregon, where he 
served one year as interne in the Good Samaritan Hospital, and in 1908 went to 
Huntington, Baker county, Oregon, where he was associated with Dr. William 
Spencer for two years. In 1910 Dr. Ross came to St. Helens, where he has met 
with notable success as physician and surgeon, specializing in gynecology and 
obstetrics. He rendered a distinct and appreciated service to this section of 
the country when, in 1925, he built and equipped St. Helens general hospital, 
which in all respects is modern, having the latest medical and surgical 
appliances. Sincerely devoted to his profession, and with a profound sympathy 
for the sick and afflicted, he has proven well worthy of the confidence and 
respect in which he is held throughout the community. Dr. Levi G. Ross has 
been county health officer of Columbia county, Oregon, since 1910, and is now 
the oldest health officer in point of continuous service, in the state.

     On August 31, 1911, in Montana, Dr. Ross was united in marriage to Miss 
Verna E. Shaffer, who is a native of Indiana and whom he first met in the Good 
Samaritan Hospital, from which she later graduated in nursing. Dr. and Mrs. 
Ross are the parents of one child, John Morse, born February 11, 1916, the 
name Morse being after the inventor of the telegraph, who was of this same 
blood. Dr. and Mrs. Ross are also bringing up Frances Ann Ross, born April 25, 
1923, of whom they are legal guardians. The Doctor is a member of St. Helens 
Lodge No. 32, A. F. & A. M.; St. Helens Chapter, No. 53, R. A. M.; and Avon 
Lodge, No. 62, K. P. He also belongs to the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of 
Commerce. He is a member of the board of education and is a director of the 
Columbia County Bank, which was established by his father. He is an active 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a steward and is also 
a member of the choir, in which he takes an active interest. During the World 
war he was the physical examiner of all enlistments and was county chairman of 
the Red Cross drives, and Mrs. Ross organized a class in nursing and 
instructed a number of young women for war service. Dr. Ross possesses a 
genial and kindly manner, calculated to inspire confidence on the part of his 
patients, and all who have come in contact with him hold him in the highest 
measure of regard.

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