Christian K. Ross was the father of two of the first kidnapping for ransom victims to receive nationwide media attention. His son Walter was sent into a store and later recovered. His son Charley was not recovered and Christian spent most of his life and much of his money searching for Charley.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWJP-4TK : 21 August 2017), C K Ross, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district ED 454, sheet 487D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1181; FHL microfilm 1,255,181.
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