Jacob Ross Family History Collection, 1951-1996

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Summary

Creators:
Ross, Lecil E.
Abstract:
This is a typed manuscript documenting the history of the Jacob Ross family from 1865 to 1900. The manuscript was created in 1951 by Lecil E. Ross in response to a request from Southwest Museum director Frederick Webb Hodge for memoirs of pioneers in Early California. This collection also includes a Family Group Record produced by Raymond R. Ross in 1996.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Jacob Ross Family History Collection, 1951, 1996, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.695.

Background

Scope and content:

This is a typed manuscript documenting the Jacob Ross family from 1865 to 1900 through oral histories, photographs, and research compiled by Lecil E. Ross in 1951. This document was prepared by Lecil E. Ross, who also authored the Jacob Ross Family History. Donation correspondence is included. This collection also includes a Family Group Record produced by Raymond R. Ross in 1996.

Biographical / historical:

Southwest Museum director Frederick Webb Hodge was inspired by H. H. Bancroft to collect dictated memoirs of pioneers for the Bancroft Library in Berkeley, and reached out to the community for stories of families who were established in Early California. Lecil E. Ross answered the call, donating family histories for his paternal grandfather, Jacob Ross, Sr., and his family in California from 1865-1900 and for Lecil's maternal grandfather, George Lunsford Russell, who was a landowner in Los Angeles County before Los Angeles was 100 years old. The Ross and Russell families settled near each other and eventually intermarried. The Russell land was about a mile northeast of what is currently Santa Ana.

Acquisition information:
Donations by L. E. Ross, 1951 December 27; and Raymond R. Ross, 1996 April 4.
Processing information:

Processed by Library staff after 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 November 9, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit https://theautry.org/research-collections/library-and-archives and fill out the Researcher Application Form.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred citation:

Jacob Ross Family History Collection, 1951, 1996, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.695.

Location of this collection:
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027, US
Contact:
(747) 201-8448
rroom@theautry.org
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