Ross Emil Erwin

b. 22 December 1885, d. 5 April 1953
  • Ross Emil Erwin was born on 22 December 1885 in Forney, Kaufman County, Texas.
  • He was known as Tex.
  • Laura Ann Boles appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Forney, Kaufman County, Texas, and also two boarders, living not far from her sister Alice.. Other members of the household included Ross Emil Erwin, Thomas Buckley Erwin, Powell Erwin, William Hiram Erwin and Edwin I. Erwin.
  • Laura Ann Boles appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Dallas, Texas, at 190 Griffin and also nine additional boarders. For some reason, Willis and Hannah's daughter Mary Alice Wood, who would have been about five years old, is missing from the household.. Other members of the household included Ross Emil Erwin, Powell Erwin, Edwin I. Erwin, Hal Erwin, Frank Dick Erwin, Nancy Jane Powell, Hiram P. Erwin, Willis Eason Wood, Hannah Ross and Hannah Marguerite Wood.
  • He was a baseball player, according to the 1910 census.
  • He was known as Tex.
  • Ross Emil Erwin registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, while living at 1210 Trafalgar Street, Rochester, and employed there as an inspector for Symington Henderson? on University Avenue.
  • Ross Emil Erwin died on 5 April 1953 at age 67 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York.
  • The following appeared on 7 April 1953 in the Dallas Morning News: Ross E. Erwin, 68, son of Mrs. Laura Erwin, 3812 Colonial, died Sunday in Rochester, N.Y., where he had been in the insurance business for the last thirty years. A former city councilman of Rochester, Erwin too up his residence there after concluding a notable career in organized baseball, major and minor. He was one of Six Dallas brothers who played professional ball, two of whom survive. Born at Forney, Texas, Dec. 22, 1885, Erwin, then called Mike and later in the big leagues Tex, was an outstanding Dallas County semipro at the turn of the century. He broke in with Galveston in the South Texas League, 1904, was with Fort Worth, 1905-1906, and was third-string catcher for the championship Detroit club of 1907. Unable to break through the Tiger catching staff of veteran Dutch Schmidt and the talented Jimmy Archer, Erwin went to St. Paul, but returned to the majors in 1910 to catch for four seasons for the Brooklyn Nationals, and for Brooklyn-Cincinnati in 1914. He divided the next six years between St. Paul and Rochester, returned to the Texas League to catch for Ham Patterson's 1921 Dallas club briefly and finished that season, his last, as a Texas League umpire. Erwin is survived in Rochester by his wife, Ida; a daughter Adelaide; a son, Ross E. Jr., and four grandchildren and in Dallas by his mother and two brothers, Tom and Babe Erwin.
  • Last Edited: 4 Apr 2008