Alexander Coffin Ross

  General notes:

Silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• He worked from 1829 to 1865 as a silversmith, jeweler, and watchmaker in Zanesville OH a man of many talents and an ingenious turn of mind. He is credited with being the inventor of sulphur matches and with producing the first daguerreotypes west of the Allegheny mountains after reading an account of the discovery of the process in a London journal. He operated the first telegraph line in Zaneville and is credited with writing the famous song "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," in the Harrison presidental campaign.

Alexander married Caroline Granger on 2 Apr 1838. (Caroline Granger was born on 18 Mar 1819 in Zanesville OH and died after 1892.)