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Daniel Webster and Benjamin Franklin being the largest and most ituijortaut. Among his art works are illustrations (or several of Longfellow's poems; Storm Approaches (IS^-i), ailer a paint- ing by Henry Mosler ; a copy of La Rixe, after an etching from Meissonier's painting ; the orig- inal etchings, Doris, the Slu'i)henl's Maiden {\8S5), and Marguerite (1886), and etchings of the exte- rior and of the higli altar of the Catholic cathe- dral, New York city (1887). He also added ten engravings of unengravetl portraits of Washing- ton to Washington;!, and in 1!»0:3 was completing a large mezzo-tinto of Waslungton from the paint- ing hy TruinbuU in the city liall at Cliarleston, S.C.

ROSS, Clinton, aullior, was born in Bingliam- ton, N. v., July 31. 1801 ; son of Erastas and Cor- nelia (Corbett) Ross ; grandson of Alfred and Elizabeth (Drake) Ross, and of Cooper and Cor- nelia (Bayless) Coi-bett, and a descendant of the Cnbetts of Warwickshire, England, and the Rosses of Scotland. He prepared for college at Pliillips Andover academy, and was graduated from Yale in 1881, after whicii he travelled ex- tensively. In 1893 and 1895 he passed some months on the reportorial staff of the New Y'ork Evening Sun, but later devoted himself exclu- sively to the study of literature and the drama. He is the author of : The Silent Workman (1886); The Speculator (1888); The Adventures of Three Worthies (1891); Improbable Tales (1892); Two Soldiers and a Politician (1892); The Countess Beltina (1895); The Scarlet Coat (1896); The Pup- pet {ISdG); Chalmette{lS91); The Meddling Hussy (1896); .1 Trooper of the Empress (1898); Zuleka (1898); Heroes of Our War with 5[pam (1898); Battle Tales (1898); Men, Women and Comedies (TjO.J) ; Tiie Tale of Many Gods (1903), and numer- ous magazine articles.

ROSS, Edmund Gibson, senator, was born in Ashland, Oliio, Dec. 7, 1826; son of Sylvester F. and Cyntliia (Rice) Ross. He was apprenticed to the trade of a printer at Huron, Ohio, in the summer of 1838, and removed to Milwaukee, Wis., in 1847, wliere he was employed as fore- man of the Milwaukee Sentinel job printing rooms, 1852-56. He removed to Kansas in 1856 ; was a soldier in the Free State army in the contro- versy that then opened, and was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1859. He edited the Kansas Tribune at Topeka, 1856-61, at that time the only Free State organ in the territory, all otlier Free State papers having been destroyed. In 1862 lie joined the Federal army as a private, was made captain of a company, and in 1863 was promoted major. He was ai)pointed U.S. senator from Kansas to fill the vacancy caused by the deatli of James H. Lane. July 25, 1866, was elected at the succeeding winter

session of the state legislature, and served till March 4, 1871. He voted for the acquittal of President Johnson in the impeachment trial. May 16, 1808, and this, as he fully foresaw at the time, cost him political ostracism. He was the defeated Democratic candidate for governor of Kansas in 1880, and in 1882 removed to Albu- querque, New Mexico, where he engaged in the newsi)aper business. Ho was appointed by Pres- ident Cleveland governor of the territory, serv- ing, 1885-89, and in the latter year he returned to Albucpierque where lie was still residing in 1903.

ROSS, Edward Alsworth, political economist and sociologist, was born in Virden, III., Dec. 12, 1866 ; son of William Carpenter and Racliel (Als- wortli) Ross ; grandson of Carpenter Ross. He was graduated from Coe college. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1886 ; was a student at the University of Berlin, 1888-89. and at Johns Hopkins university, in the department of history, politics and econ- omics, 1890-91, and took the degree of Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins in 1891. He was married, June 10, 1892, to Rosamond Comstock, daughter of Francis Simons of Washington, D.C. He was professor of economics and social science at In- diana university, 1891-92 ; associate professor of political economy and finance at Cornell univer- versit}', 1892-93 ; professor of economic theory and finance at Leland Stanford Junior university, 1893-97, and professor of sociology, 1897-1900. In November, 1900, his public expressions on cer- tain sociological questions not meeting the ap- proval of Mrs. Stanford, he was requested to re- sign. He was appointed lecturer on sociology in tlie University of Nebraska in January, 1901, and professor of sociology in April. He was also ap- pointed lecturer on sociology in Harvard univer- sity for the year 1901-02. During 1892-93 he was secretarj- of the American Economic association, and in 1900 he was chosen associate of the Insti- tut International de Sociologie. He was made an advisor}' editor of tiie American Journal of Soci- ology. He is the author of a monograph, Sinking Funds (1892); a brochure, Horiest Dollars (1890); a volume, Social Control (1901), and numerous contributions to the Political Science Quarterly, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Annals of the American Academy, the American Journal of Sociology, and other periodicals.

ROSS, Qeorge, signer, was born in New Castle, Del., in 1730; son of the Rev. George and Catii- erine (Van Gezel) Ross, and grandson of David Ross of Scotland. His father (1679-1754) was graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1700, and studied theology there, but joined the Church of England, and emigrating to America in 1703 settled in New Castle, Del., becoming pastor of the churcii there and at Chester, Del. George was admitted to the bar in 1751, and set-