Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1891 — A PROMINENT CHEROKEE. [ARTICLE]

A PROMINENT CHEROKEE.

Death of Senator floss of the Cherokee Nation. A special from Tahlequalh, I. T., on tho 21st says: The Cherokee Nation is mourning for the death of her leading statesman, ■Senator W. H. Ross, who died very suddenly yesterday morning of heart disease, at.his home in Fort Gibson. Senatar Ross was a half-breed, about 68 years old, and was educated at Princeton College by his uncle, Chief John Ross. Ho entered public life at the age of twentytwo, and [has held almost every office in the gift, of the nation, from Chief down He was Lieutenant-colonel during the war in the Confederate army. He was a brilliant orator and a lehderof the National party.