Ross, Joseph

ROSS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/19/2009 at 16:43:35

Joseph Ross

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.50, Council Bluffs)
Joseph Ross, cooper, Council Bluffs, was born in England, and came to America at the age of ten. He came to Iowa in 1857. He has a fine farm in Crescent Township, where he stayed two years and a half, coming to the Bluffs in 1872. He carries on a heavy coopering business, employing from fifteen to eighteen men. His family consists of three children - Daisy S., aged six years; John T., aged four years and Charlie, who is three years old.