Albert Henderson Wade Ross | |
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Born | 1884 Kentucky, U.S. |
Died | 1939 U.S. |
Other names | A.H.W. Wade |
Occupation(s) | Businessman, lawyer, newspaper owner, and baseball team owner |
Albert Henderson Wade Ross (1884–1939), whose name is often abbreviated as A. H. W. Ross, was an American businessman, lawyer,[1] newspaper owner, and baseball team owner. Ross and the Denver Independent Publishing Company were owners from 1913 to 1963 of The Denver Star (formerly The Statesman), an African-American newspaper.[2][3] He owned and led the African American baseball team the Denver White Elephants, active from 1915 to 1935.[4][5] Ross had also been the manager of the Rossonian Hotel (a NHRP-listed building) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, which was renamed after him in 1929.[6][4][1] Some sources state that Ross owned the Rossonian starting in either 1928 or 1929, and others state he owned it in the mid-1930s.[7][8][1] He had also worked in real estate and owned the Metropolitan Realty Co. (or Metropolitan Real Estate and Investing Company), and was a member of the Denver NAACP.[1][9]
sold the Denver Star to the Denver Independent Publishing Company which published the paper under this name until 1963.
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