GROSS
GROSSCUP
35, and professor of pathological anatomy there,
1835-40; professor of surger3- iu the University
of Kentucky, 1840-50; of surgery and relative
anatomy in tlxe University of the city of New
York, 1850-51; bj- urgent demand of his associ-
ates returned to the University of Kentuckj- and
continued as professor of surgery, 1851-50; and
was professor of surgery in the Jefferson medical
college. Philadelphia, Pa., 1856-82. lie was a
founder and an early president of the Kentucky
medical societj'; founded with Dr. T. G. Rich-
arrlsou in 1856 the Louisville Medical Bevietc and
in Philadelphia soon after the Xorth American
Malico-Chirurgical Bevieio. He also founded with
Dr. DaCosta the Philadelphia pathological soci-
ety and was its first president. He was elected
a member of the Royal medical society of Vienna
in 1862; president of the American medical asso-
ciation in 1867; a member of the Royal medico-
chirurgical society of London in 1868; of the
British medical society the same year; received
the honorary degree of D.C.L. from the Univer-
sity of Oxford on its one thousandth commem-
oration in 1872: the degree of LL. D. from the
University of Cambridge the same year, and from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1884, and was
president of the International medical college
which met in Pliiladelphia in September, 1876.
He made notable original investigations and is
the author of: Diseases and Injuries of the Bones
and Joints (1830); Elements (if Pathological Anat-
omy (1839-57); Wounds of the Intestines (1843);
Beport on Kentucky Surgery (1851); Diseases, In-
juries and Malformations of the Urinary Organs
(1851, 1855, 1876); Besults of Surgical Operations
in Malignant Diseases (1858); Foreign Bodies in
the Air Passages (1854); Beport on the Causes ichich
Betard the Progress of A nerican Medical Literature
(18.56); System of Surgery (1859-83); Manual of
Military Surgery (1861); John Hunter and his
Pupils (1861); Histonj of American Medical Liter-
ature (1875); in collaboration with other noted
surgeons Century of American Medicine (1876),
and he also edited American Medical Biography
(1861). Hedied in Pliiladelphia, Pa.. May 6, 1848.
GROSS, Samuel Weissell, surgeon, was born
in Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. 4, 1837; son of Dr.
Samuel David and Louisa (Weissell) Gross. He
was educated in arts at Shelby college, Ky., in
medicine at the University of Louisville, and
was graduated at Jefferson medical college, Phil-
adelphia, Pa., in 1857. He was lecturer in Jeffer-
son medical college and in the College of
pliysicians, Philadelphia, 1857-61, brigade-surgeon
with the rank of major of volunteers, 1861-65.
and received the brevet of lieutenant:CoIonel at
the close of the war for distinguished services in
line of duty. He was surgeon to the Howard
hospital, the Hospital of Philadelphia and the
hospital of the Jefferson medical college, 1865-82,
and accepted the chair of the principles of sur-
gery and clinical surgery at Jefferson medical
college in 1882. He received the degree of LL.D.
He is the author of a Practical Treatise on Tumors
of the Mammary Gland ( 1880); Practical Treatise
on Impotence, Sterility and Allied Disorders (1881-
87); and edited, in collaboration with his brother
Albert Haller Gross, Autobiography of Samticl D.
(;n..«. M.D.
GROSS, William Hickley, R.C. archbishop, was bora in Baltimore, Md., June 12, 1837; son of Jacob and Rachel (Hazlett) Gross; grand- son of Louis Gross and of James Hazlett, and great-grandson of Anthony Gross, who came from Alsace and with his son, Louis Gross, took part in the defence of Baltimore in 1812. He received his classical education at St. Charles's college, EUicott City, Md., 1850-53. He entered the novitiate of the Order of Redemptiouist Fathers in 18.57, being admitted to the priesthood March 31, 1863, by Archbishop Kenrick. During the closing years of the civil war he was mis- sionary to soldiers in the hospitals about Annap- olis and to the negroes who were made free by the President's proclamation. After the close of the war he was attached to the missionary force of St. Alphonsus's church in New York citj-, and in 1870 was made superior of the community of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston, Mass. He was consecrated bishop of Savannah, April 37, 1873. by Archbisliop Bayley, assisted by Bishops Gibbons and Becker, and became successor to the Rt. Rev. Ignatius Persico, D.D., resigned. After laboring in Savannah and throughout the dio- cese embracing southern Georgia twelve years he was promoted by His Holiness Leo XIII. Feb. 1, 1885, from Savannah to the archiepiscopal see of Oregon as successor to the Most Rev. Charles John Seghers, resigned. The archdiocese of Oregon City was created in 1850 and included the entire state of Oregon. In 1898 it had a Catholic population of about 33,000 souls. His eloquence won for Bishop Gross the sobriquet "silver- tongued orator of the liierarcliy. " He died at Baltimore, Md., Nov. 12. 1898.
GROSSCUP, Peter Stenger, jurist, was born in Ashlanil. Ohio, Feb. 15, 1853; son of Benjamin and Susannah (Bowermaster) Grosscup; grand son of Paul and Rebecca (Shearer) Grosscup. and of Frederick and Catherine (Mohler) Bower- master, and a descendant of Paul Grosscup, who sat for Berks and Lebanon counties in the Penn- sylvania colonial assembly, and in the convention that framed the constitution, 1791. His paternal ancestors were Hollanders who immigrated to America before the formation of the Federal union, and his maternal ancestors were German. He was prepared for college in the schools of Ash-
