BIO: George C. ROSS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, pages 886 & 887.
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  GEORGE C. ROSS,*  who is president of the Ferguson Township School Board, is 
one of the extensive farmers and representative and substantial citizens of this 
section of Clearfield County, Pa., where he owns 230 acres of valuable land, 
which lies three miles south of Kerrmoor.  He was born at Mountain Dale, Cambria 
County, Pa., and is a son of Joseph and Margaret (Miller) Ross.
  Joseph Ross was a farmer in Cambria County when the great Civil War broke out.  
He entered the Union army and it is supposed that he died a soldier's death.  He 
married Margaret Miller, who was born in Blair County, Pa., and they had four 
children:  Harry, who resides at Falling Timber, Cambria County, Pa.; J. M., who 
is deceased; Hannah Belle, who is deceased; and George C.  After all reasonable 
doubt of the death of her first husband had been removed, Mrs. Ross married 
Philip Holland and they had one son, James Holland, who now lives in Cambria 
County.  Mrs. Holland died at the age of sixty-five years and her burial was at 
Mountain Dale, in Cambria County.  She was a member of the Brethren church.
  George C. Ross had very few advantages of any kind in his youth and a period 
of two years covered all the schooling he ever had.  He was only a boy of twelve 
years when he came to McGees Mills, Clearfield County and he worked on a farm in 
that neighborhood for three years, after which he went into the woods and was in 
the employ of the Clearfield Lumber Company for eight years.  Having acquired 
some capital by his hard work he then went into a store business with Milton 
Braton, at Faunce, Pa., but fire destroyed their stock.  Mr. Ross started up 
again for himself but subsequently sold out and then came to his present farm in 
Ferguson Township, which was the old family homestead of his father-in-law, 
Isaac Moore.
  Mr. Ross was married September 12, 1894, to Miss Roxie Moore, who was born 
September 27, 1878, on this farm and in the present residence, and has always 
lived near here.  Her father, Isaac Moore, was also born in Ferguson Township, 
where he spent his life, his death occurring at the age of thirty-nine years, in 
1884, and his burial was in the Zion Baptist Cemetery in Ferguson Township.  He 
married Esther Straw, who was also born in Ferguson Township and now lives at 
Marron, Pa.  They had six children, namely:  Minnie E. and Harriet, both of whom 
are deceased; Olie, who is the wife of Howard Williams, of Ferguson Township, 
Daisy, who is the wife of Reuben Summers, of Marron, Pa.; Roxie, who is the wife 
of George C. Ross; and Elah, who is now deceased.  Mr. and Mrs. Ross have nine 
children:  Carrie, Clayton, Harry, Inez, Esther, Mildred, Alta, Wilbur and Ruby.  
Mr. and Mrs. Ross attend the Baptist church.
  Mr. Ross and family have resided on the present farm since April 5, 1906.  He 
carries on general farming and raises stock for his own use.  Politically he is 
a Republican, is a member of Kerrmoor Grange, Ferguson Township, and is a 
stockholder and a member of the board of directors of the La Jose and Ferguson 
Telephone Company of Ferguson Township.