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==Biography==
[[File:Two_women_performing_on_a_barn_door_in_the_first_known_musical_event_at_the_Hollywood_Bowl,_ca.1920_(CHS-14567).jpg|alt=On a platform in a field, against a hillside, one woman plays a piano while a woman singer stands nearby|thumb|Gertrude Ross and Anna Ruzena
Ross was born in [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]], Ohio,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Susan |title=Women composers: a handbook |date=1978 |publisher=the Scarecrow press |isbn=978-0-8108-1138-6 |location=Metuchen London |pages=144}}</ref> to Emma Corinne McCreary and Abner L. Ross. She showed early musical talent as a child, playing music by ear and giving concerts starting at age 10. She attended the [[Cumnock School of Expression]] in Los Angeles for three years, then studied at the [[University of Southern California]] for an additional year.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzDTAAAAMAAJ&dq=gertrude+ross+composer&pg=PA163 |title=The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... |date=1925 |publisher=Halvord Publishing Company |pages=163–165 |language=en}}</ref>
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