Mrs. Mary Gross wife of the late Daniel Gross, of Yankton, S. Dak., passed on at her home there on Monday, June 20th, aged 85 years.
Interment was made in the Naperville cemetery on Wednesday. Mrs. Gross was formerly a resident of Naperville, her husband being one of the early postmasters here.
The Naperville Clarion
June 23, 1927
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Excerpt from bio of CHENEY C. GROSS, M. D. in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1808-1810.
The subject's maternal grandmother Dudley bore the maiden name of Mary Barrows and was a native of Middlebury, Vermont. Her family originally came from England, settling in this country about 1630. She was a woman of exceptionally strong character and unusual intellectual attainments. In 1832 she left her home in Middlebury, Vermont, with a married sister, Mrs. Rev. N. C. Clark, whose husband had been appointed by the American Home Missionary Society to the then new field of Illinois. They arrived in Chicago when that city was a mere village, boasting but one frame house. Here she and a Miss Chapin founded a school, which was to be the basis or origin of the present public-school system of that great city. Miss Chapin later married Rev. Jeremiah Porter, an appointee of the American Home Missionary Society and who served as chaplain to the United States troops stationed at old Fort Dearborn and whose name is prominently mentioned in the history of the early settlement of Illinois. Here Miss Mary Burrows first met her future husband, John Dudley, whom she married December 19, 1836. Her niece, Miss Martha J. Barrows, has been a missionary at Kobe, Japan, for many years, where, in 1893, she and the subject's aunt, Miss Julia E. Dudley, founded the Woman's Evangelistic School of Kobe, Japan, a Bible training school under the supervision and control of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
The subject's mother, Mrs. Mary D. Gross, is a woman of strong, earnest and sincere Christian character, and also of unusual intellectual strength and abilities. To her Dr. Gross is probably indebted mainly for his mental and intellectual ability. She was favored in her youth with superior educational advantages, having attended the public schools and a private academy at Naperville, Illinois, and also the Rockford Female Seminary at Rockford, Illinois. Her sister, Miss Julia E. Dudley, who is still living in California, was for thirty years a missionary in Japan, being superintendent of the Bible training school for women, at Kobe, Japan, under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
Interment was made in the Naperville cemetery on Wednesday. Mrs. Gross was formerly a resident of Naperville, her husband being one of the early postmasters here.
The Naperville Clarion
June 23, 1927
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Excerpt from bio of CHENEY C. GROSS, M. D. in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1808-1810.
The subject's maternal grandmother Dudley bore the maiden name of Mary Barrows and was a native of Middlebury, Vermont. Her family originally came from England, settling in this country about 1630. She was a woman of exceptionally strong character and unusual intellectual attainments. In 1832 she left her home in Middlebury, Vermont, with a married sister, Mrs. Rev. N. C. Clark, whose husband had been appointed by the American Home Missionary Society to the then new field of Illinois. They arrived in Chicago when that city was a mere village, boasting but one frame house. Here she and a Miss Chapin founded a school, which was to be the basis or origin of the present public-school system of that great city. Miss Chapin later married Rev. Jeremiah Porter, an appointee of the American Home Missionary Society and who served as chaplain to the United States troops stationed at old Fort Dearborn and whose name is prominently mentioned in the history of the early settlement of Illinois. Here Miss Mary Burrows first met her future husband, John Dudley, whom she married December 19, 1836. Her niece, Miss Martha J. Barrows, has been a missionary at Kobe, Japan, for many years, where, in 1893, she and the subject's aunt, Miss Julia E. Dudley, founded the Woman's Evangelistic School of Kobe, Japan, a Bible training school under the supervision and control of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
The subject's mother, Mrs. Mary D. Gross, is a woman of strong, earnest and sincere Christian character, and also of unusual intellectual strength and abilities. To her Dr. Gross is probably indebted mainly for his mental and intellectual ability. She was favored in her youth with superior educational advantages, having attended the public schools and a private academy at Naperville, Illinois, and also the Rockford Female Seminary at Rockford, Illinois. Her sister, Miss Julia E. Dudley, who is still living in California, was for thirty years a missionary in Japan, being superintendent of the Bible training school for women, at Kobe, Japan, under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
Mrs. Mary Gross wife of the late Daniel Gross, of Yankton, S. Dak., passed on at her home there on Monday, June 20th, aged 85 years.
Interment was made in the Naperville cemetery on Wednesday. Mrs. Gross was formerly a resident of Naperville, her husband being one of the early postmasters here.
The Naperville Clarion
June 23, 1927
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Excerpt from bio of CHENEY C. GROSS, M. D. in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1808-1810.
The subject's maternal grandmother Dudley bore the maiden name of Mary Barrows and was a native of Middlebury, Vermont. Her family originally came from England, settling in this country about 1630. She was a woman of exceptionally strong character and unusual intellectual attainments. In 1832 she left her home in Middlebury, Vermont, with a married sister, Mrs. Rev. N. C. Clark, whose husband had been appointed by the American Home Missionary Society to the then new field of Illinois. They arrived in Chicago when that city was a mere village, boasting but one frame house. Here she and a Miss Chapin founded a school, which was to be the basis or origin of the present public-school system of that great city. Miss Chapin later married Rev. Jeremiah Porter, an appointee of the American Home Missionary Society and who served as chaplain to the United States troops stationed at old Fort Dearborn and whose name is prominently mentioned in the history of the early settlement of Illinois. Here Miss Mary Burrows first met her future husband, John Dudley, whom she married December 19, 1836. Her niece, Miss Martha J. Barrows, has been a missionary at Kobe, Japan, for many years, where, in 1893, she and the subject's aunt, Miss Julia E. Dudley, founded the Woman's Evangelistic School of Kobe, Japan, a Bible training school under the supervision and control of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
The subject's mother, Mrs. Mary D. Gross, is a woman of strong, earnest and sincere Christian character, and also of unusual intellectual strength and abilities. To her Dr. Gross is probably indebted mainly for his mental and intellectual ability. She was favored in her youth with superior educational advantages, having attended the public schools and a private academy at Naperville, Illinois, and also the Rockford Female Seminary at Rockford, Illinois. Her sister, Miss Julia E. Dudley, who is still living in California, was for thirty years a missionary in Japan, being superintendent of the Bible training school for women, at Kobe, Japan, under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
Interment was made in the Naperville cemetery on Wednesday. Mrs. Gross was formerly a resident of Naperville, her husband being one of the early postmasters here.
The Naperville Clarion
June 23, 1927
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Excerpt from bio of CHENEY C. GROSS, M. D. in "History of South Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904), pp 1808-1810.
The subject's maternal grandmother Dudley bore the maiden name of Mary Barrows and was a native of Middlebury, Vermont. Her family originally came from England, settling in this country about 1630. She was a woman of exceptionally strong character and unusual intellectual attainments. In 1832 she left her home in Middlebury, Vermont, with a married sister, Mrs. Rev. N. C. Clark, whose husband had been appointed by the American Home Missionary Society to the then new field of Illinois. They arrived in Chicago when that city was a mere village, boasting but one frame house. Here she and a Miss Chapin founded a school, which was to be the basis or origin of the present public-school system of that great city. Miss Chapin later married Rev. Jeremiah Porter, an appointee of the American Home Missionary Society and who served as chaplain to the United States troops stationed at old Fort Dearborn and whose name is prominently mentioned in the history of the early settlement of Illinois. Here Miss Mary Burrows first met her future husband, John Dudley, whom she married December 19, 1836. Her niece, Miss Martha J. Barrows, has been a missionary at Kobe, Japan, for many years, where, in 1893, she and the subject's aunt, Miss Julia E. Dudley, founded the Woman's Evangelistic School of Kobe, Japan, a Bible training school under the supervision and control of the American Board of Foreign Missions.
The subject's mother, Mrs. Mary D. Gross, is a woman of strong, earnest and sincere Christian character, and also of unusual intellectual strength and abilities. To her Dr. Gross is probably indebted mainly for his mental and intellectual ability. She was favored in her youth with superior educational advantages, having attended the public schools and a private academy at Naperville, Illinois, and also the Rockford Female Seminary at Rockford, Illinois. Her sister, Miss Julia E. Dudley, who is still living in California, was for thirty years a missionary in Japan, being superintendent of the Bible training school for women, at Kobe, Japan, under the American Board of Foreign Missions.
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