Lewis Williams Ross

Lewis Williams Ross (October 15, 1827 – November 22, 1902) was an American politician, lawyer, and legal academic.

The Ross family was Protestant, moved from Scotland to Ireland, and a later descendant, Daniel Ross, moved to the state of New Jersey in the United States. Ezekiel Ross, the grandfather of Lewis Ross, moved from New Jersey to Ohio in 1812, then settled in Butler County in 1814. Lewis Ross was born in Hanover Township, and lived on the family farm until the age of twenty, when he began attending Farmers' College in May 1848. In 1850, he transferred to Miami University, and graduated in 1852. He then studied law in Hamilton, Ohio, passing the bar in 1854. Ross first came to Iowa in 1856, residing in Cass County and practicing law there from 1858, before moving to Council Bluffs in 1861. He died at home in Council Bluffs on November 22, 1902, aged 75.