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ANNUAL TO LEWIS PRATT ROSS As a tofyen which only partially expresses our appreciation for his interest in Mechanics Institute. THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED 5
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» ? »« Lewis Prati Ross was bom in Tuscarora, Livingston County, N. Y., and spent his youlh in that vicinity. At an early age he left the family home at Wiscoy, Allegany County, and came to Rochester, where he completed Ills education and where he immediately thereafter engaged in business pursuits, hie was at first and for a short time associated with G. P. Grant, under the style of G, P, Grant Ross, conducting a general wholesale business in Bools, Shoes Rubber goods. Since February, 1865, he has been uninterruptedly engaged in Shoe Jobbing business, and it is believed to be the longest period that any such business has been conducted by one individual without change of proprietorship. For a year or more the business has been conducted under the style of The L. P. Ross Co., but Mr, Ross still remains sole owner and proprietor of the business. By reason of his exceptional capabilities as a business man and his untiring zeal and industry he not only speedily brought his own business to a successful issue and placed it in the front rank of similar enterprises in the country, but He became interested in other business institutions, which soon felt the favorable effect of his unerring judgment and keen insight into business problems. He has long been associated with the Shoe Manufacturing industry and is at the present time President of the P, A. Field Shoe Company, Salem, Mass., President of the George H. Snow Company, Brockton, Mass., and a large stockholder in the shoe manufacturing business of F. M. Hodgdon, Haverhill, Mass. He is also senior partner in the firm of G. E. Thing Co., Buffalo, N. Y„ which firm was organized in 1904 and is now doing a large business in wholesaling shoes and rubber footwear. In the sphere of banking and finance Mr, Ross has been active for many years, serving as an officer or director in various banking institutions, lie is at the present time Presi- dent of the Fidelity Trust Co., of this city, and he has served in that capacity since the date of organization. While Mr. Ross has been intensely interested in his various business enterprises, he has found opportunity to give liberally of his time and money to Civic and Educational affairs.. The Chamber of Commerce always found in him an enthusiastic and active supporter. He served as its President during the year 1890, and is now a member of the Advisory Council of this organization. No worthy philanthropy has ever engaged the attention of the citizens of Rochester, but has had the timely, earnest and liberal support of Mr. Ross. The Humane Society, The General Hospital, The Rochester Public Health Association, and numerous other benev- olent movements have commanded his warm interest. The cause of Education has particularly interested Mr. Ross for many years. He is now, and has been for a long time President of the Board of Trustees of the University of Rochester and to the conduct of the affairs of this institution it has been his pleasure to give liberally of his time and money and ripened judgment. If any one cause may be said to lay closer to Mr. Ross s heart than any other, it is that of Vocational Education. In many of his public utterances he has made it clear that it is his belief that it is of prime importance to the welfare and uplift of the community and the slate, that young men and women be afforded the very best opportunity possible to obtain, with the least expenditure of time and money, that kind of an education vhich would enable them to become skilled in some vocation which would render them independent and self-supporting. It is not strange then that the Mechanics Institute com- manded his interest from the time of its inception in 1885. Mr. Ross has been a member of the Board of Directors of Mechanics Institute since its organization, and has been the President of the Board of Directors since 1899. He has given the Institute the benefit of his rare business sagacity and has been one of the most generous contributors to its funds. « ¥ ♦ ¥ ♦ ¥ 7
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