Riverside County
Biographies
JACK
ALVIN ROSS
Many public trusts have been reposed in Jack A.
Ross, the efficient county recorder of Riverside county,
whose work has at all times been performed in a manner that has won for him
strong commendation. He was born in Metropolis, Illinois, November
16, 1900. Henry A. Ross, his father, is a native of Paducah, Kentucky, where he
was reared and educated, and among his schoolmates was Irvin S. Cobb, who
afterward achieved prominence as a writer. Henry A. Ross is now manager of a
marble and granite business in Riverside, California, and active in the work of
the Methodist Church. While living in the south he married Maude Shelton, a
native of Nashville, Tennessee, and four children were born to them but one is
now deceased.
As a child Jack A. Ross came with
the family to Riverside and here acquired his education, taking a special
course in mathematics while in high school. Enlisting for service in the World
war, he was assigned to the Coast Artillery and was stationed at Fort Winfield
Scott. When mustered out he returned to Riverside and entered the political
arena, January 23, 1919, as deputy tax collector. He next became deputy county
clerk, acting in that capacity for three years, and was then appointed clerk of
the board of supervisors, which position he held until January 1926. At that
time he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of one year, and in 1927 he
was the popular choice for the county recorder and the record which he made
during the first term won him re-election in 1930 for another term of four
years. He has thoroughly systematized the work and is considered one of the
most capable men who have ever fill the office.
On the 19th of November,
1924, Mr. Ross was married to Miss Margaret Pharaoh, a daughter of Ernest E.
Pharaoh, a Canadian, and they now have two children, Joan and Jaclyn, the
former four and the latter two years old. Mr. Ross has membership in the
Methodist Church and in politics he is a stanch
republican. Of a kindly nature, he is ever ready to aid the poor and needy and
was chosen member of the local board of commissioners on unemployment. He is a
past officer of the Lions Club of Riverside and also belongs to the American
Legion and to Gamma Eta Kappa, a high school fraternity.
Although still young in years, his rapidly developing powers have carried him
into important relations, and his personal qualities are such as inspire strong
and enduring regard.
Transcribed By:
Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: California
of the South Vol. II,
by John Steven McGroarty, Pages
477-478, Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles,
Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 Cecelia
M. Setty.
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