This transcriptions comes from the Sedgwick County, Kansas Biographical
Record
Dr. D. E. DeRoss, a veteran of the Civil War, is a practicing physician of Wichita, Kansas, where he has established a large and well paying business.
He was born at Meadville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and is the son of Alexander DeRoss.
Alexander DeRoss was also a physician, and was the seventh son of Lord Henri DeRoss, who came from France with Admiral DeGrass, whose sister he married, and served in the navy during the Revolutionary War. Alexander was the father of seven sons, six of whom, including the subject hereof, were in the arny during the Civil War. They were as follows: Henri, a farmer now living in Pennsylvania; William, a tanner, of Jennings, Lousiana, who served in Company E, 45th Reg. Mo. Vol. Inf.; A. D., who died in Pennslvania, April 30, 1900, and who served under General Gary, in Company E, 111th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inf.; Conrad, now a farmer near Avery, Iowa, who was in Company H, 150th Reg. Pa. Vol. Inf., which was called the "Bucktail" regiment; Jonathan G., who also served in Company H, of the same regiment, was wounded at Gettysburg and Petersburg, and was killed February 6, 1865, at Hatch's Run; H. C., now of Akron, Ohio, engaged as a fancy potter in one of the largest mills in the United States, first served in the Civil War in the 3rd Pa. Heavy Artillery, and afterward in the 188th Reg., Pa. Vol. Inv.; and Dr. D. E., who is the subject of this sketch.
Dr. D. E. DeRoss received his primary education in the public school at Meadville, Pennsylvania and then attended Meadville Academy, where he took the medical course, graduating in 1860. He first engaged in practice with
his father, and on March 16, 1861, was sent by his father as administrator of an estate, in searach of a man named Barnes, whom he finally located in Missouri. At Holden, Missouri, where Mr. Barnes resided, Dr. DeRoss took
charge of the school, teaching from April to June 30, 1861. Then fearing impressment into the Confederate service, he left the county and had the good fortune to meet Union soldiers. He had been second lieutenant in the
Home Guards of Missouri, and enlisted inthe 2nd Mo. Light Artillery, in which he served as physician until the close of the war. He is one of the few vererans of the 2nd Missouri now living. In the summer of 1865, he was sent with a command known as the Powder River expedition, whose mission was to survey a route through the Black Hills to the junction of the Yellowstone and Powder rivers. They encountered many hostile Indians, who fired poisoned arrows, and the command suffered a severe loss, and many
died of their wounds. Dr. DeRoss has 12 scars to show where wounds were sustained, but his prompt use of caustic saved his life. The object of this survey was to open the country for settlement and mining purposes. In February, 1866, the Doctor returned to Meadville, Pennsyvania, where he practiced medicine until December 1, 1889, and then came west, to Wichita, Kansas, on account of his health, which was impaired by tonsilitis. He praticed both as an Allopathist and Homepathist, until 1875, when he took
an eclectic course, was graduated in 1875, and since then has practiced in accordance with the Eclectic system. As the Kansas climate agreed with him, he resumed practice in March, 1890, and has met with pronounced success. He is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association;
Kansas Eclectic Medical Association; and president of the Pennsylvania Eclectic Medical Association.
Dr. DeRoss was married at Royalton, Pennsylvania, to his firs wife, M.M. Royal, now deceased. They had a son, M. Roy, an expert accountant of Junction City, Kansas. The Doctor married a second time, Lorretta A. Lamb, of Joliet, Illinois, becoming his wife, and they live at No. 704 St.
Francis street, where he also has his office. The subjedt of this sketch is a member of the I.O.O.F.; the K of P.; and is commander of Eggleston Post, No. 244. G.A.R., of Wichita. The Doctor is also a Mason. He is a Republican in politics, and cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln.
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