Account book, 1848-1849.

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Account book, 1848-1849.

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This daybook, 1848-1849, is a record of the nature and volume of the printing business of Mills, Ross, and Mackay Company in Sandusky City. The entries refer to the printing of cards, shipping bills and receipts, election tickets, handbills and posters, petitions, programs, labels, ball tickets, medical catalogues, bills of fare, licenses, blank record books, "cough candy" labels, letterheads, and labor costs. The accounts include Ross's indebtedness to the company. Among the customers were the Free Soil League, Sandusky City Bank, and many individuals and societies. Following the daybook entries, the volume contains unrelated, undated notes in pencil (c. 1860) concerning natural history and English literature.

1 v. (157 p.) ; octavo.

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Ross, Edmond Gibson, 1826-1907

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Ross was born in Ashland, Ohio, on December 7, 1826, the third of fourteen children born to Sylvester Ross Sr. and Cynthia (Rice) Ross. He was educated locally and at age 11 was apprenticed as a printer at the Huron, Ohio, Commercial Advertiser. In 1841 he moved to Sandusky, Ohio, to join the staff of the Sandusky Mirror, which was owned by his brother Sylvester. For several years in the late 1840s and early 1850s, Ross was employed as a journeyman printer and typesetter, traveling throughout Oh...

Mills, Ross, and Mackay Company.

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One member of the firm of Mills, Ross, and Mackay of Sandusky, Ohio, was Edmund Gibson Ross (1826-1907), journalist, printer, and U.S. Senator from Kansas. He is best known for having cast what is considered the deciding vote against conviction in the impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) in 1868. Following his service with Mills and Mackay, Ross lived briefly in Wisconsin and moved in 1855 to Kansas, where he published the Kansas Tribune in Topeka. From the descripti...