The Gross Family Tree

Raphael Gross, 1835 to 1898

Hannah Strauss Gross, 1841 to 1920

Raphael, my Great Grandfather pictured here, followed his brother Isaac to New York in America in 1856 with his friend Leopold Strauss (a brother of Philip’s).  They too went directly to Worcester, MA and the two younger boys went to work for their brothers.  In due time they bought the older brothers out of the Worcester business, and the older brothers moved to Boston and started Gross, Strauss, a similar business in that city.

His Death notices from the Worcester Newspapers.

In 1867, Raphael married Hannah Strauss pictured on the right, sister of Philip and Leopold.  I have not yet found when she arrived in America.

When Raphael passed away in 1898 she continued a few years in Worcester running the family business with her son Henry. In 1905 the business was sold and Hannah moved to New York to keep house for her third son, Moritz who had been graduated from Columbia University Medical School and was practicing as a Doctor in that city.  She passed away in 1920.

Copyright 2004, Philip Norcross Gross

For more information please contact me at [email protected].  All this information is based on family stories, or documents listed in the References.  Official documentation is not common except for recent generations (1850 or later) and may not necessarily be referenced herein.