BIO: Robert James ROSS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 231.
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  ROSS, ROBERT JAMES, son of Andrew Ross, a native of Londonderry, 
Ireland, who came to America about 1800, and his wife, Hannah Templin, 
of Chester county Pa., was born at Georgetown, D. C., in 1807.  He 
received a good English and classical education and was appointed by 
President John Quincy Adams midshipman in the United States navy 
August, 1826, and subsequently promoted for meritorious conduct and 
services.  Shortly after his marriage he resigned and was appointed 
teller in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania, at Harrisburg, then under 
the cashiership of James Lesley.  In 1839 he was tendered the position 
of cashier in the Harrisburg Savings Institution, which he accepted, 
and when this corporation became the Dauphin Deposit Bank he remained 
its cashier until his death.  Mr. Ross died at Harrisburg October 6, 
1861.  He was enterprising and successful in business and stood high in 
financial circles.  He married, in 1833, Mary E., daughter of Jacob M. 
Haldeman and Eliza Ewing Jacobs, who died at Harrisburg in 1873, aged 
fifty-nine years.  They had children:  Jacob H., d. s. p., Andrew, 
Jacob Haldeman, Eliza, Hannah, married Colonel Reno, United States 
army, Roberta, married J. Wilson Orth, and Robert.