Sherry Ross (pioneer) explained

Sherry Ross
Birth Date:	11 February 1824^[1]
Occupation:	Farmer, merchant
Spouse:	Rebecca Deardorff

Sherry Ross (February 11, 1824January 4, 1867) was an Oregon pioneer and the namesake of Ross Island and Ross Island Bridge in Portland, Oregon.

Ross arrived in the Oregon Country in 1845, part of a train of 200 wagons that branched off of the Oregon Trail via the Meek Cutoff.^{[2] [3]} Ross filed a provisional land claim in 1846 on a parcel of roughly 400 acres surrounded by the Willamette River, a location later known as Ross Island.^[4]

In 1851 Ross married Rebecca Deardorff, an 1850 immigrant to the Oregon Territory.^{[5] [6]}

Ross operated a dairy farm on Ross Island^[7] and was listed as a livery stable owner at 165 First Street in early Portland.^[8]

See also

• History of Portland, Oregon

Further reading

• The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912, Volume 1, by Joseph Gaston

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ross, Sherry . Early Oregonian Search . Oregon State Archives . January 15, 2015.
2. Web site: Flora . Stephenie . Emigrants to Oregon In 1845 . Oregon Pioneers . Stephenie Flora . January 15, 2015.
3. Ross was counted among the immigrants of 1845 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, see footnote 30, Book: Bancroft, Hubert Howe . History of Oregon . The History Company . I . 1890 . San Francisco . 526 .
4. Web site: Vol 4 pg 047; Ross, Sherry . Oregon Historical Records Index . Oregon State Archives . January 15, 2015.
5. Web site: Flora . Stephenie . Emigrants to Oregon In 1850 . Oregon Pioneers . Stephenie Flora . January 15, 2015.
6. In 1938, an oral history project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration recorded a conversation with Cyrus B. Woodworth, grandson of the Rosses. He believed the marriage occurred because Deardorff wanted to own an island and Ross already had the claim. See Web site: Wrenn . Sara B. . Cyrus B. Woodworth . Oregon Folklore Studies . Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration . December 30, 1938 . January 15, 2015.
7. See Tyler Woodward in Web site: Lockley . Fred . History of the Columbia River Valley from the Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III . S. J. Clarke . 1928 . 326–328 . January 15, 2015.
8. Book: Scott, Harvey Whitefield . History of Portland, Oregon: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens and Pioneers . D. Mason and Co. . 1890 . Portland . 148 .