The Socorro chieftain. [volume] (Socorro, N.M.) 1902-1959, 1907-05-11
EDMUND G. ROSS DEAD
Man Who Saved Andrew johnson
from Conviction Passed Away in
Albuquerque Wednesday
INDICATED BEFORE HE DIED
Was a Man OF Wide and Varied
Experience in the Field Of
Journalism.

Edmund G.. Ross, ex-senator
from Kansas and ex-governor Of
New Mexico, died at his home in
albuquerque Wednesday. Thus
ended the earthly career of the
man whose vote saved Andrew
Johnson from conviction under
the charges made in the articles
of impeachment filed against
him. The same vote called
down upon Senator Ross head
the imprecations of the people
OF the state lie represented and
caused him to spend the remain
ing forty years of his life an
exile from the state of his adop-
ton. Happily, however, he liv-
cd long enough to know that the
people of Kansas, and, in fact,
the people of the entire nation.
had learned to recognize the wis
dom, the devotion to principle,
and the complete sell-sacrilice
under which he cast his vote at
the close of the impeachment
proceedings.
Edmund G.. Ross was born in
Ashland, Huron county. Ohio.
December Z, 1926. At ten he
entered a printing Office. In
lS47 he travelled through In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin us
journeyman printer, and was
married in lS4S to Miss Fannie
Lathrop, native of New York.
Seven children we're born OF the
marriage, Mrs. Ross dying in
1896, after. fifty-one years of
welded life. AS a newspaper
man Ross was employed on the
Milwaukee Free Democrat, the
Milwaukee Sentinel, the Law
renee, Kansas, Tribune and the
Topeka Tribune, which he
founded, in 1889. After serving
with the Free State Troops" in
the border wars, he was elected
a member of the Wyandotte con-
Stitutional convention. which
framed the constitution under
which the territory OF Kansas
was admitted into the union.
He founded the Kansas State
Record, since become the Topr-
ka Capital, in partnership with
his brother, and the two erected
the first three-story concrete
building exclusively for newspa-
per purposes i'll Kansas.
In 1862 Ross raised a company
of volunteers in Topeka for the
support OF the union cause, be-
came its captain, and in 1864
was promoted to major of the
Eleventh Kansas infantry. He
served as colonel OF battalion
during the Price raid, and par
ticipated in many engagements,
at one time having three horses
shot under him and his shoulder
straps shot away. He served
all through the war, principally
along the kansas-Missouri bor-
der. After the war Ross pub
lished the Kansas Tribune at
Lawrence. Governor Crawford
of Kansas, in 1866, appointed
Ross to the seat in the senate
made vacant by the suicide OF
James Lane, and in 1867 he was
elected by the legislature to the
Office for the term of 1867-71.
On his return to Kansas after
the impeachment trial, Ross was
refused work on various newspa-
pers through the work of the po-
litical ring which feared to see
him get back into politics. He
went to Coffeyville, Kas., and
for several years published
Ross Paper exposing polit-
ical corruption in the state, his
plant being finally destroyed by
cyclone. Returning to Law
renee in 1873, he founded the
Evening Paper" and as its ed
itor procured the downfall of
United States Senator Pomeroy.
Later he and his son published
the Spirit of Kansas a week
ly at Lawrence, the elder Ross
afterward becoming foreman Of
the Lawrence Journal, Later
he helped issue the Daily
Standard" at Lawrence. In
1880 he came to New Mexico
and went to work at the printers
case on the Albuquerque Journal,
remaining there until his APP
pointmant as governor by Cleve-
land in 1885. e~