. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. 589 tion which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the second term. For a numberof years he served as chairman of the Rock Island County Republican Club. Hewas an ardent member of the Masonic order and a charter member of the localchapter. He was married November 12, 1874, to Miss Julia E. Ottenheimer ofCincinnati, Ohio. In August, 1895, he was taken seriousl
. History of Illinois Republicanism, embracing a history of the Republican party in the state to the present time ... with biographies of its founders and supporters ... also a chronological statement of important political events since 1774. 589 tion which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the second term. For a numberof years he served as chairman of the Rock Island County Republican Club. Hewas an ardent member of the Masonic order and a charter member of the localchapter. He was married November 12, 1874, to Miss Julia E. Ottenheimer ofCincinnati, Ohio. In August, 1895, he was taken seriously ill and was advisedto go abroad. There he suffered a relapse and died Jan. 25, 1899, in Germany. LEONARD F. ROSS. The father of subject was Ossian M. Ross, a native of Duchess County, , and the mother Miss Mary Winans a native of Xew Jersey. They came toIllinois in 1820, and to Fulton County in 1821, the father engaging in farmingand trading with the Indians. He became proprietor of Lewiston, and ofHavana on the river ten miles distant. He had been a soldier in the war of1812, and his grandfather, Capt. Thomas Lee, in the Revolutionary War in sev-eral New York organizations. In 1829 Ossian M. Ross removed from Lewis-town to Hava
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