“ She comes of a hardy pioneer class of genuine Americans. She removed with her parents, who are still living, to Charles City, VIRGINIA EVELYN ROSS. Iowa, in 1864, but the restless spirit of the pioneer settler carried them to Johnson county. Neb., in 1869, where Virginia passed the greater part of her early life. She there became the wife of T. J. Ross,in 1879. She had received only the rudiments of a text-book education, but her talent sprang into activity, like the crystal flow from a mountain spring. Not being possessed of a strong physical body, she has taxed herself severely. ”