Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Ross, George
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown M-Z


GEORGE ROSS attorney-at-law, P.O. Doylestown, was born in 
Doylestown, August 24, 1841.  He is a son of Hon. Thomas 
Ross, the distinguished pleader, who represented Bucks and 
Lehigh counties in congress in 1848, 1849, 1850, 1851, and a 
grandson of Hon. John Ross, late justice of the supreme 
court of Pennsylvania.  His mother was Elizabeth Pawling, a 
daughter of Levi Pawling, Esq., of Montgomery county, who 
was a distinguished lawyer, and at one time member of 
congress from that district.  His great-grandfather, Thomas 
Ross, was a noted preacher of the Society of Friends.  Our 
subject is of Scotch-Irish descent, his 
great-great-grandfather having been born in county Tyrone, 
Ireland, and his father in Scotland.  After a thorough 
preparation in various first-class schools of Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey he entered the freshmen class half advanced, 
at Princeton College, New Jersey, in January, 1858, and 
graduated in 1861.  He then read law with his brother, Hon. 
Henry P. Ross, and was admitted to the bar in the courts of 
Bucks county June 13, 1864.  He was married December 28, 
1870, to Ellen Lyman Phipps, daughter of George W. Phipps, 
of Northampton, Mass.  After serving in various state and 
national conventions as a representative of the democratic 
party, he was elected October 8, 1872, a member of the 
constitutional convention, in which he hade his influence 
felt.  In 1884 he was the democratic nominee for congress in 
the seventh congressional district, composed of Bucks and 
Montgomery counties, but was defeated at the election, the 
district being largely republican.  He is one of the 
trustees of the state hospital for the insane at Norristown, 
and also one of the board of directors of the Bucks County 
Trust company. Without entirely eschewing politics, he has 
confined himself closely to the practice of his profession, 
and has well sustained the reputation of his family in the 
legal profession.  In the fall of 1886 he was elected upon 
the democratic ticket for a term of four years to the 
senate.  Mr. Ross is a gentleman of influence and 
prominence, and ranks high among the leading men of the 
county.