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ARTEMUS ROSS, M. D., a physician in active practice at Clymer, is a son of George and Barbara (Ross) Ross, and was born in the town of Clymer, Chautauqua county, New York, April 4, 1841. According to tradition there were three Scotchmen by the name of Ross who came to America and from whom all the Rosses of this country are descended. The paternal great-grandfather of Dr. Ross was Samuel Ross of Scotch-Irish descent who was a resident of Chenango county and had served as a soldier in the Revolutionary war. His son, Charles Ross (grandfather), settled first in Chenango county but afterwards came to this county where he purchased one hundred and eighty acres of land about four miles north of the site of the village of Clymer. He was a democrat, married Amy Woodburn, a cousin to Horace Greeley’s mother, and had nine sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to maturity. One of these sons, George Ross (father), was born in 1807 in the town of Cherry Valley, Chenango county, and in 1825 came to the town of Clymer where he died March 29, 1889. He was a farmer and stock-dealer, a Jacksonian democrat and had served as justice of the peace in Clymer and also in Mina where he resided once for several years. As a man of considerable legal knowledge he was frequently counselled in important cases. He married Barbara Ross, who still survives him and is now in the eighty-third year of her age. They had four sons and four daughters all of whom are living except two of the sons. Mrs. Ross is a daughter of Benjamin Ross, who married Polly Coom, by whom he had seven children. He was a farmer and a democrat and removed from Chenango to Allegany county where he died.

Artemus Ross received his education in Normal schools and Alfred university of Allegany county. He read medicine with Dr. D. W. Martin of Mina, and entered (1868) the University of Pennsylvania from which he was graduated in 1872. He then opened an office at Corry, Pennsylvania, but at the end of one year came to Clymer as a wider field for the practice of his profession, where he now has an extensive and remunerative practice. Dr. Ross is a democrat politically but has never been an aspirant for office and gives his time and attention to his profession. He is a member of Olive Lodge, No. 575, Free and Accepted Masons at Clymer.

In 1874 he married Evangeline, daughter of Oscar Bush, a native of Erie county, Pa. Their union has been blessed with two children: Winifred, born December 7, 1877; and George, born February 18, 1883.