California Biographies 

Source:
History of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura Counties, California
by: C M Gidney - Santa Barbara. Benjamin Brooks - San Luis Obispo. 
Edwin M Sheridan - Ventura
Volumes II - Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, ILL., 1917

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LEOPOLD C. ROSS. As compared to the great majority of men whose biographies appear in this 
work and who have attained to high position as ranchers and in the field of business, Leopold 
C. Ross, of Oxnard, is but a beginner in the field. Yet of none of the younger generation can it 
be more truthfully said that the foundation for what of success, of popularity and of honor the 
future has in store, has been more firmly or with greater good judgment laid
than in his case.
 
Mr. Ross is a native son of California, born in the City of Los Angeles, February 13, 1893, a son 
of Charles and Auriella (Arenas) Ross. He was given excellent educational advantages in the 
best of California's institutions, beginning at Saint Vincent's College, which he attended until 
1908, and continuing at Santa Clara College, Santa Clara, California, where he remained six 
months. Subsequently he enrolled as a student at Troop Polytechnic School, at Pasadena, 
California, and studied two years, and then erected the high school department of the 
University of Southern California, where he remained two years. Following this Mr. Ross had 
his introduction to business affairs in the capacity of bookkeeper for the Merchants National 
Bank, but after seven months resigned from this position and made a trip over Europe, which 
lasted for seven months. On his return he was unoccupied for a year, save for the work 
connected with the arranging of affairs associated with the 940 acres of Ventura County land 
which he had inherited from his uncle, Cav. Leopoldo Schiappa Pietra, and of which he has 
since sold 240 acres. He now has the balance planted in beans, and is getting excellent results 
from his property, being possessed of the executive ability and knowledge of his vocation 
necessary in the handling of a large tract. He lives on his ranch, in order to keep in close touch 
with its affairs, and has a beautiful home, in addition to which there are a full set of substantial 
modern buildings for the housing of his livestock, grain and modern machinery. Mr. Ross has 
been interested in a number of business ventures aside from his ranch, and at this time is a 
stockholder and director in the Santa Clara Water and Irrigating Company and a stockholder in 
the North American Dredging Company of San Francisco, and the Angelus Hospital, at Los 
Angeles. He belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Fraternal Order of 
Eagles, and has many friends in each lodge.
 
Mr. Ross was married at Los Angeles, in February, 1915, to Miss Vera Stiles, who was well 
known in social circles of that city.