Ross C. Russ, M. D.

Ross C. Russ, M. D.

was born in Brown county, Ohio, April 9th, 1834. He was the youngest child in a family of seven children whose parents were Matthew Russ and Sarah (Welsh) Russ. His father, a native of Westmoreland county, Virginia, was engaged through life in agricultural pursuits. He moved from his native State to Kentucky, and thence at a later date removed to Ohio, settling in Brown county, near Georgetown, where he resided until his death in 1866. He was an officer in the war of 1812, and the son of a colonist who took part as a patriot in the revolutionary struggle. He was a man of sound judgment and unquestionable integrity, and a true Christian gentleman. The mother of Ross, a native of Mason county, Kentucky, was a daughter of Thomas Welsh, one of the early pioneers of that county. Her forefathers also had been identified with the patriot cause, and taken part in the engagements of the troublous times preceding the year 1783. His boyhood days were passed alternately in attending school and in working on a farm. He attended the Williamsburg High School in Clermont county, Ohio, and in his seventeenth year began teaching school in Brown county, Ohio, studying medicine in his leisure hours. At the age of nineteen he entered the office of his brother, Dr. Matthew C. Russ, at Royalton, Boone county, Indiana. Subsequently he became a student in Rush Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, and graduated with honor from that institution in 1856. In this year he returned to Royalton, Indiana, and there began the practice of medicine. At the termination of five years spent in successful labors, he removed to Ohio in 1863, and settled in Danville, Highland county, where he practised [sic] medicine until 1869. He then located his office in Hillsborough, the county-seat, and there has since resided, engaged in the control of an extensive medical practice. During the war of the rebellion he was commissioned Surgeon of the 103d Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but owing to a precarious state of health, was not able to remain with his regiment throughout its entire term of service. Public office of a partisan or political nature he has never either sought or accepted. He is a valued member of the Highland County Medical Society, and has contributed scientific articles to the leading medical journals, which have thrown great light on the histology, pathology, and treatment of various intricate diseases, and which have been generally highly appreciated by the leading members of the medical profession. Politically his ideas on the proper form of government, and the right policy of his country, incline him to support the Republican party. His religious opinions attach him to the Methodist Church. He was married in 1862 to Myra M. Wright, a native of Lexington, Kentucky.

Source: Ohio Biographical Sketches, 1876, "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century." Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

Transcribed by: T. Stover - August 10, 2007