ROSS, DR. EDWARD H., is the only living son of Hon. Jonathan and
Eliza (Carpenter) ROSS, and was born in St. Johnsbury in 1864. He graduated
in 1882 from St. Johnsbury academy and from Dartmouth college, with the
degree of A. B. in 1886.
After teaching one year in the well-known Kimball Union academy
of Meriden, New Hampshire, he was engaged as a teacher in the Brewster
Free academy at Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, at its organization, and filled
that position one year. Having decided to adopt the profession of medicine,
he took the full medical course at Dartmouth, and graduated in 1891. Dr.
ROSS inherits from a stanch ancestry a well-balanced mental and physical
constitution and he is essentially a student as well as a practitioner
of medicine.
The year following his medical graduation was spent in St. Elizabeth
hospital, Boston, an institution devoted to the treatment of the diseases
of women, and later he was assistant physician for five months in Dr. Jefferson's
private hospital at Lowell, Massachusetts.
Dr. ROSS settled in practice in his native town in 1892. Two years
later he married Miss Nellie O. HERSEY of Wolfeborough, New Hampshire.
Two children have been born to them, Ralph Hersey, and Helen Carpenter.
Dr. ROSS is located at 84 Main street, and pursues an active practice,
his specialty being gynecology and surgery. He is an esteemed member of
Passumpsic lodge, No. 27, F. & A. M.; also of the Vermont Medical society
and of the pension board of Caledonia county.
Dr. E. H. ROSS is “to the manor born,” a good type of the scholarly
physician and loyal citizen, and is especially identified with the interests
of Brightlook hospital.
Source: Successful Vermonters,
William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company,
1904, page 33.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn January 2003
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