John Harrison Ross SrAge: 71 years1864–1936
- Name
- John Harrison Ross Sr
- Given names
- John Harrison
- Surname
- Ross
- Name suffix
- Sr
 Birth | August 1864 |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 2 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 2 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 4 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 13 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Marriage | Hattie Calbreath — View this family August 26, 1897 (Age 33 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 33 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Birth of a daughter#1 | Dolores Ethel Ross September 1, 1902 (Age 38 years) |
 Census | April 15, 1910 (Age 45 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 51 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 52 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 53 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Marriage of a child | Herbert Cleo Lamborn — Dolores Ethel Ross — View this family September 30, 1922 (Age 58 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Eileen Lucile Lamborn April 5, 1928 (Age 63 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 65 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Geraldine Lee Lamborn January 25, 1930 (Age 65 years) |
 Death | 1936 (Age 71 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Ridgelawn Cemetery |
| Family with Hattie Calbreath |
| himself |
John Harrison Ross Sr Birth: August 1864 — Pennsylvania, United States Death: 1936 — Hammond, Lake, Indiana, United States |
| wife |
Hattie Calbreath Birth: May 27, 1877 — Lebanon, St. Clair, Illinois, United States Death: September 6, 1955 — Hammond, Lake, Indiana, United States |
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Marriage: August 26, 1897 — St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
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5 years daughter |
Dolores Ethel Ross Birth: September 1, 1902 38 25 — Ashtabula, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States Death: October 5, 1992 — Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida, United States |
| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - John Harrison Ross Sr - Household
Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
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