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John Hugh Ross 1852 - 1923

John Hugh Ross of Mansfield Australia was born in 1852 in Kilmore, VIC to Hugh Ross and Barbara (McKenzie) Ross. He had a brother Hugh Ross Jr.. He was in a relationship with Adelaide Eliza Ross ( Beckton, and had children Barbara Eliza Ross, Elizabeth Annie Crichton ( Ross, Winifred Jessie Joy ( Ross, John Hugh Ross, Kenneth Mckenzie Ross, George Alfred Ross, Gordon Hector Ross, Adelaide Forster ( Ross, and Margaret Clayton ( Ross. John Ross died at age 70 years old on December 23, 1923 at Private Hospital in Toorak.

John Hugh Ross

Mansfield Australia

1852

Kilmore, VIC, 3764, Australia

December 23, 1923

Private Hospital in Toorak, VIC, Australia

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The Kilmore Free Press, January 1924. Mr. John Ross, who died at Melbourne on Sunday, 23 ultimo, at the age of 71 years, was a resident of Howe's Creek, near Mansfield for many years, and was popular and highly esteemed by a large circle of friends in the mountain country. Mr. Ross spent his childhood in the Kilmore district, being the son of an early settler in Willowmavin. He was for years mainly engaged in conducting mountain team trips to Jamieson, Gaffney's Creek, Wood's Point and Matlock mining districts, and intervening settlement's and was popular and respected by all classes. He leaves a widow and large family to mourn the loss of a good husband and parent. (Ultimo-of last month)
1852

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1852

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Kilmore, VIC 3764, Australia

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1923

Death

December 23, 1923

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Private Hospital in Toorak, VIC Australia
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Obituary

The North Eastern Ensign ( Benalla) January 1924. MR. JOHN ROSS. Mr. J. Ross, storekeeper, carrier and farmer of Howe's Creek, Mansfield, died on the 24th of December at a private hospital in Toorak, after a surgical operation. For the last fifty years deceased had catered for the needs of the Jamieson, Gaffney's Creek, Wood's Point and Matlock mining districts. Deceased was born at Kilmore in 1852, and leaves a widow and grown up family of nine.

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John Hugh Ross lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.

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In 1852, in the year that John Hugh Ross was born, on March 2nd, an experimental steam fire engine was tested in the US. Great Britain had begun using "steam pumpers" after 1829, when they were invented.

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In 1874, he was 22 years old when on May 20th, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis were approved for a patent for "blue jeans with copper rivets". They charged $13.50 per dozen jeans. Although the term "jeans" was first used in 1795 - in Italy - using rivets to reinforce stress points in jeans such as pockets and the bottom of the fly was an original idea..

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