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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [338]

           JAMES ROSS, farmer, section 17, Bingham Township, was born
        April 19, 1822, in Banffshire, Scotland.  His parents lived and
        died in their native country.  MR. ROSS became a laborer when he
        was a boy of 12 years.  The first event of his life of any impor-
        tance was his marriage, in Scotland, to MARY CORLEY, of the same
        nationality.  She was born in April, 1822, in Aberdeenshire, and
        has been the mother of 12 children, born in the following order:
        Stephen, MARY, JAMES, JANE, ELLEN, CHARLES, LIZZIE, ANNA, MARGARET
        and JESSIE. Two children died in infancy.
           Two years subsequent to their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. ROSS emi-
        grated to Canada, settling at first in Hamilton, Ontario, where
        they were resident seven years. They went thence to Lancaster,
        Wentworth Co., Ont., and lived there 12 years, removing thence to
        Michigan in 1870, when they located where they have since resided.
        They became proprietors, by purchase, of 240 acres of land on
        section 17, 120 acres on section 8, and 120 acres on section 16 of
        Bingham Township. The entire acreage was in a wholly wild condi-
        tion. There were no roads in the vicinity, settlers were more like
        angels visits, — few and far between, — and he encountered life in
        the bush in all its variety.
           MR. ROSS is the most extensive land-holder in Bingham Township,
        and has one of the best locations. Nearly all the land is now under
        cultivation.
           He is a member of the Democratic element in politics. He has
        been Justice of the Peace six years, and is still the incumbent of
        the office. The family are Presbyterians.

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