Charles P. Ross, M.D.
Charles P. Ross, M.D., son of Presley and Salina Ross, was born in Clarke County, Ohio, Jan uary 31, 1851. His father died when he was yet a small child, leaving him without paternal care. In the spring of 1855 he came to Shelby County with his mother and stepfather, Jacob Wagoner, who located in Loramie Township, a short distance southeast of Mt. Jefferson, where Mr. Ross’s boyhood days were spent on a farm. He was educated in the Normal School of Lebanon, Ohio. In 1876 he began the study of medicine under John S. Gard, M.D., of Tremont City, Clarke County, Ohio. In the autumn of 1877 he entered the Medical College of Ohio, located at Cincinnati, and graduated in the class of 1879. Soon after receiving his diploma he located in Mt. Jefferson, Loramie Township, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful, and by close application to business he has established for himself a large practice, considering the length of time he has been engaged in the practice of medicine. On the 1st of October, 1880, he married Miss Ann M., daughter of Michael Snyder, of Piqua, Ohio.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883