WI BIO - Jackson Co - ROSS, William C.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol I, p 418

Rev. William C. ROSS was born 15 March 1824 in Glasgow, Scotland. His father 
came with his family to the United States in 1832 and settled at Whiteston, 
Oneida County, New York. Here our subject [William C. ROSS] received a 
common and high school education. He came West soon after he was licensed to 
preach, and commenced preaching in Columbia County, Wisconsin, having joined 
the Wisconsin Conference, and afterward connected with the West Wisconsin 
Conference.

On 19 January 1848 he [Rev. William C. ROSS] was married to Miss Sarah L. 
GILLETT, of Troy [County], New York. They [Rev. William C. and Sarah L. 
(GILLETT) ROSS] have three children living: Lettie Agnes, Elma L., and Edwin 
L. Their son, Nathan C., enlisted first in the 39th Regiment, Wisconsin 
Volunteers, and afterwards in the 48th. He [Nathan C. ROSS] died since the 
war closed, at the age of twenty-four years. [The Civil War ended in April 
1865.] "Elder" ROSS [William C. ROSS] spent some time "at the front" caring 
for the sick and wounded; also at the Soldier's Home in Milwaukee [Milwaukee 
County, Wisconsin], all at his own expense.

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