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ROSS, Frederick Augustus, clergyman, born in Cobham, Cumberland County, Virginia, 25 December, 1796: died in Huntsville, Alabama, 13 April, 1883. He was educated at Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, entered the Presbyterian ministry, emancipated his slaves, and from 1825 till 1851 was pastor of a church in Kingsford, Tennessee, where he had removed in 1818. In 1828 he labored as an evangelist in Kentucky and Ohio. At the division of the Presbyterian general assembly in 1837-'8 he adhered to the new school branch, and in 1855 he became pastor of the 1st Presbyterian church in Huntsville, Alabama, holding this charge until 1875 and continuing pastor emeritus until his death. With James Gallaher and David Nelson he edited a monthly publication entitled "Tile Calvinistic Magazine," founded in 1826, and he published a book entitled "Slavery as ordained of God " (Philadelphia, 1857).
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