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Portrait And Biographical Album Of Mecosta County, Mich. Containing
Portraits And Biographical Sketches of Prominent And Representative
Citizens of the County together with Portraits And Biographies of All The
Presidents Of The United States  And Governors of the State.  Also
Containing A Complete History of The County, From Its Earliest Settlement
To the Present Time.  Chicago, Chapman Bros. 1883

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GROSS, Orsemus
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Orsemus Gross, farmer, sec. 28, Deerfield Tp., P. O. Morley, was born in
New Lisbon, Otsego Co., N. Y.  His parents were natives of the same State.
His mother, Nancy (Patrick) Gross, died in the fall of 1843; his father,
Ellis Gross, resides in Steuben Co., N. Y.

At the age of 15 Mr. Gross went to Pennsylvania, where he engaged in
farming and lumbering three years, and then obtained work on the Erie
Canal.  On the outbreak of the rebellion of the Southern States he enlisted
in the Thirty-fourth N. Y. Vol. Inf., and served two years, the full period
for which he enrolled, and received an honorable discharge.  He was in the
engagement at Gaines’ Mills, Antietam, Fairfax Court-House and in the
battle of the Wilderness.  on his discharge he returned to Pennsylvania and
at once proceeded to Mecosta Co., Mich., and bought 40 acres of land in
Deerfield Tp.  It was then in a wild condition, but he has nearly his
entire acreage in a good state of cultivation, and lately improved by a new
frame house.  Mr. Gross adheres to the principles advocated by t he
Democratic party.

He was married Oct. 22, 1869, to Jeanette, daughter of Alanson and Esther
A. (Hedges) Rickar.  Her parents are natives of New York and came to
Mecosta County in the winter of 1865.  Mrs. Gross was born May 22, 1849.
To Mr. and Mrs. Gross three children were born, as follows:  Alphonso G.,
Aug. 22, 1870; Ella A., June 14, 1873; Mabel A., Dec. 24, 1878.

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