This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IWg.2ACIB/1099.1 Message Board Post: Read your post and wondered if you had any information on a Dwight Cassett Gross born in Southwick, Mass in 1825. His son Andrew Jonah (or Joner) Gross was born 1869 in Rosendale, Fon du lac County, Wisconsin. Andrew was my wifes grandfather. He married Josephine Berrier in Humboldt County Iowa in 1890. Story has it that Dwight Cassett Gross was for a time the territorial governor of the Dakotas. He was employed in his father's whip factory and was married to Celestia Herrick, she was a seamstress in her early years. Sometime after 1854 the family moved westward. For a time they lived in LeRoy, Dodge County, Wisconsin where one of their children Isabelle was born. In 1861 they traveled to the Dakota Territory, setting doen at Bonn Homme where they kept a Hostelry and Dwight was appointed Territorial Governor by President Lincoln. In 1855 they moved south to Pacific City and in 1866 they left the Dakota Territory and ended up in Iowa.