Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Ross, Homer L. October 4, 1867 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

HOMER L. ROSS, Jurist. Engaged in the private practise of law at Hilo for 
almost twenty years, Homer L. Ross in 1921 was appointed to the bench as judge 
of the Circuit Court, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Territory of Hawaii, by the 
late President Warren G. Harding, qualifying for office on August 25 of that 
year. Judge Ross had practised at Indianola, Iowa, from 1897 until his removal 
to Hilo in 1902.
  Active in civic affairs, Judge Ross was appointed in 1919 by the then 
Governor Charles J. McCarthy to membership on the Board of Child Welfare and 
is at present serving as an ex-officio member. He was a member of the 
Selective Draft legal advisory board for the 8th district of Hawaii and 
chairman of the Hawaii Chapter, American Red Cross, during the World War, and 
was vice-president of the Hilo Board of Trade from 1920 to 1921. He is 
president of the Hawaii Island Welfare Bureau, a trustee of the Hilo Boarding 
School, trustee of the Hilo Public Library and a member of the Council and 
Court of Honor, Boy Scouts of America.
 Born Oct. 4, 1867, at East Liverpool, O., Judge Ross is the son of Lachlin 
and Mary (McPherson) Ross. He attended the University of Wooster, Wooster, O., 
1884-1887, and was graduated from the Iowa State University with the degree of 
LL.B. in 1897. He married Lotta M. Richards at Indianola on Dec. 24, 1900, and 
they have two children, Margaret M. and Homer R. Ross. Judge Ross is a 32nd 
degree Mason and a member of the First Foreign Church of Hilo.


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