(30 Nov. 1840-10 Feb. 1906), physician. Born at Lancaster, Ont. His parents were natives of Ross-shire, Scotland. He received his medical degree from McGill University in 1863, and practised medicine at Lancaster, GC. He was one of the signers of an address presented to Dr T. (or A. J.) MacPherson, who was leaving Lancaster, and Dr Ross also signed a testimonial for Oleum Kalamos, the patent medicine of T. H. McLean. (Cornwall Freeholder 23 Nov. 1866, 15 March 1867) In 1870, Dr Ross left for California, and Dr Andrew Harkness succeeded him in the practice at Lancaster. Dr Harkness also married Dr Ross’s sister Janet. Another sister of Dr Ross’s is noted separately in this dictionary as Bathia Fortune. (Dr Ross also had a daughter called Bathia.) Dr Ross practised medicine in Woodland, Calif., and (from 1893) in Sacramento, Calif. On going to Sacramento, he “almost immediately stepped into a large and lucrative practice.” He was superintendent of the Southern Pacific Railroad hospital in Sacramento, president of the Sacramento City Board of Health, and president for one year of the California Medical Association. In politics, he was a Republican. Mason. Congregationalist. Dr Ross died at his home in Sacramento. Burial was at Woodland. His agricultural interests included vineyards and “fine cattle.” He was married (1) in 1870 to Martha R. Lindsay of Malone, N.Y., who died 1881 (one child), and (2) in 1886 to Ibby Chiles of California. (three children).

Cornwall Standard 23 Feb. 1906 (repr. Fraser Obits. 297) * detailed obituary and report on burial, undated clipping but from Woodland, Calif., press (QF both quotations) * obituary of his wife, Cornwall Freeholder 13 Jan. 1882 * R. Roy Jones, Memories, Men and Medicine: a History of Medicine in Sacramento, California (1950): index, and R. Roy Jones, History of the Medical Society of the State of California (1964): index