Portrait and biographical album of Ingham and Livingston counties, Michigan, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the counties ... the governors of the state and of all the presidents of the United States.

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decease took place July 16, 1890, after years spent
with our subject in congenial companionship. The
couple were childless and the Doctor was left alone
without the comfort or solace of any near relative.
Mrs. Miller was born in Lawrence County, Pa.,
May 10, 1825. From youth she was a member of
the Presbyterian Church. After her marriage with
our subject she familiarized herself with diseases
and the pharmacopia that applied to them, and was
not only of great assistance to her husband but
also practiced independently until she was attacked with the fatal disease that caused her death.
Cancer of the face was the malady with which she
was afflicted. The Doctor was again married July
30), 1891, to Mrs. Elizabeth Cynthia (Miller) Van
Tuyl, the great platform speaker who spoke to ten
thousand people on labor day in Detroit and who
is proving to be a true helpmate in every particular.
Before the war the Doctor had a large practice in
New Orleans where he gained a large fund of useful knowledge in hospital work. Our subject's
reputation is not confined to his immediate locality, lie is well known throughout the country
and( his remedies are of the greatest benefit to
who have used them.
--- - -^~~ ---~5 -()t OMAS R(OSS, JK., a well-known farmer ref(( siding on section 3, Marion Township, Liv-.~ ingston County. is a son of Thomas Ross,
Sr., who was born in New York, October 5, 1810,
and there became a farmer. He married Jane VanWinkle, daughter of Peter VanWinkle of New
York, who had four sons and four daughters and
Jane was the youngest of that family, being born
in 1823.
The parents of our subject had a family of four
daughters and three sons and our subject is the
first-born, his natal day being August 14, 1847.
They came to Michigan at an early day and bought
three hundred and thirty-three acres of new land,
which had never been disturbed nor upon which
hlad a tree been felled.
The father afterward sold one hundred acres

retaining the balance. He is still living and makes
his home with his son, Thomas. He has been and
is still a great reader of historical and geographical works, and is well informed. In the early days
when the country was full of wild game and the
streams abounded with fish he was a great huntsnman and fisherman. In his political views he is a
Democrat and at one time filled the office of Highway Commissioner.
Thomas Ross, our subject, received a good common-school education and was thus prepared to
carry on the business of life. Upon his farm of
two hundred and thirty-three acres he raises large
crops of beans and has from fifteen to twenty acres
of land planted to cucumbers. He is a Democrat
politically and a worker for the party, and has
filled the offices of Highway Commissioner, Justice
and Supervisor, having been four terms in the later
position. On his one hundred and sixty acres of
improved land he has a pleasant house and excellent barns and his ability as a farmer and genial
nature makes him a favorite in the community.
~3EORGE BARNES is the editor of the Livi( ingston County Republican, which is published in Howell. He was born in Buckinghamshire, England, December 11, 1846. At
the age of three years he was brought by his parents to America. Some little time was spent at
Sandstone, Jackson County, Mich., and then the
family removed to the northern wilds of Gratiot
County. Mr. Barnes endured all the boy hardships of pioneer life and can tell real bear and wolf
stories to his children. He acquired a district
school education and began to teach during the
winter months.
Our subject enlisted in the army October 3,
1864, and gave thirteen months of active service
in Company H, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry.
He participated in Sherman's famous march to the
sea, and was discharged at the close of the war.
He taught in the village school at Ithaca, Gratiot
County, for several terms, and in the fall of 1870