User:John Milito/Pike Clinton Ross



Pike Clinton Ross (July 6, 1825 – December 7, 1890) was an early member of Phi Alpha Literary Society  and a veteran of the Mexican-American War.

Ross was born in Lewistown, Illinois. He attended Canton College from 1842 to 1843 and then Illinois College from 1845 to 1846. While at Illinois College he was an early member of Phi Alpha Literary Society. While not considered one of the "Immortal Seven" founding members, he is referred to as "an eighth man associated with this founding". He served in the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1847 as a member of the 4th Regiment of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry and took part in the battles of Veracruz and Cerro Gordo. He served with the rank of private, enlisted on July, 4 1846 and was mustered out on May 26, 1847. He then studied medicine from 1851 to 1853 at Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. In 1866 he married Margaret Irwin and fathered five children. He died in Canton, Illinois.