St James AME Zion Church

"The Zion Methodist Episcopal Church has been organized in our village, nearly 45 years ... It occupies an unpretending wooden buildingon Wheat street, near Corn, which will seat about 400. The number of members is about 80, over whom, as pastor, is Major H. Ross."

Directory of the Village of Ithaca, 1869-70, 22.

Ithaca Journal Office, Ithaca, NY

"The Rev. Major H. Ross, a prominent clergyman in the A.M.E. Zion Church for the past fifty-six years and formerly of the Douglass Church of Elmira died yesterday morning at his home, in Rochester after an illness of a few weeks of a complication of diseases. He was seventy-six years old and was born in Maryland. As a young man he entered the church and has been one of its leading teachers all of his life. Last year he celebrated the fifty-sixth year of his services and attended a reception tendered to him. In 1876 he was offered a bishopship in Zion Church but he preferred to remain a pastor and declined the honor. He had held important charges, notably in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Troy, Saratoga, Ithaca and elsewhere. His last church was at Jamestown. In the year 1906-7 he held the pastorate in the Auburn A. M. Zion Church, and during the past four years had been presiding elder for the Western New York conference. He was also a director of the Harriet Tubman Home. The decedent served during the Civil War as a servant to General B. F. Tracey of Owego."

"Rev. Major H. Ross," Elmira Star-Gazette [Elmira, NY], December 20 1909, 2.

Multi-Family Construction: ; 
Roof of Main Structure: Non-combustible; 
Additional Sections: Section 1, front right (E) steeple 1 stories, non-combustible roof / Section 1, right side behind Section 1 (E), 2 stories, non-combustible roof; 
Outbuildings: ; 
Porches: ; 
Other: Bay large, back full width of building (N)

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