Hon. Thomas Ross and Elizabeth Pawling

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Husband Hon. Thomas Ross ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 3 Dec 1806 - Easton, Northampton Co, PA 4
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           Died: 1 Jul 1865 4
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         Father: John Ross (1770-1834) 1
         Mother: Mary Jenkins (      -      ) 4

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Elizabeth Pawling ^{3 5}

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            AKA: Elizabeth Pauling 2
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           Died: Aft 1879
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         Father: Hon. Levi Pawling (1770-1845) 3 6 7
         Mother: Elizabeth Hiester (      -1826) 3 8 9

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Children

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1 M Hon. Henry Pawling Ross ¹

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           Born: 16 Dec 1836 - Doylestown, Bucks Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Mary Clifton (      -1873) 10
           Marr: Jun 1865 10

         Spouse: Emily Genung (      -      ) 10
           Marr: 1875 10

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2 M George Ross ¹¹

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General Notes: Husband - Hon. Thomas Ross

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Doylestown, Bucks Co, PA - a lawyer

After receiving a good primary education he entered Princeton College, where he graduated with honor in 1825, and soon commenced the study of law under the tuition of his father, then Judge of the counties of Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Bucks. In 1829 he was admitted to the bar of Northampton County, but soon after removed to Doylestown, where in 1830 he was commissioned commonwealth's attorney by Hon. Philip S. Markley, then Attorney General of the State. While he held that post it was his duty to prosecute the Chapman-Mina murder case, securing the conviction and execution of the Spaniard. The notoriety of that trial, and other law proceedings in which he soon engaged, gave him a high reputation as a lawyer, and he was put forward in 1848 as the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Sixth district, was elected, and returned the next term (1850-52).

1 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 377.

2 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 525.

3 Josiah Granville Leach, LL.B, Some Account of the Pawling Family of New York and Pennsylvania (Lancaster, PA: Wickersham Press, 1918), Pg 22.

4 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 378.

5 Theodore W. Bean, History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1884), Pg 506.

6 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 252.

7 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 559.

8 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 253.

9 Morton L. Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 525, 559.

10 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 379.

11 M. Auge, Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery County, Pa. (Norristown, PA: Privately published, 1879), Pg 254.