Finding Aid to the Jacob Ross Family History Collection MS.695
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 November 9
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Jacob Ross Family History Collection
Creator:
Ross, Lecil E.
Identifier/Call Number: MS.695
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1951-1996
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.
Language of Material:
English
.
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.
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.
Jacob Ross Family History Collection, 1951, 1996, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.695.
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).
Donations by L. E. Ross, 1951 December 27; and Raymond R. Ross, 1996 April 4.
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.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Frontier and pioneer life -- California
Los Angeles County (Calif.)
California -- History
Typescripts
Ross, Jacob
Chapman, Katherine
Hellman, Isaias W. (Isaias William)
Yorba, Prudencio
Yorba, Vicente
Patton, Susan G.
Langenberger, Augustus
Ross Family
Little People of America, Inc
Russell, George Lunsford