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Edward Ephraim Cross (April 22, 1832 – July 3, 1863) was a newspaperman and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. ==Journalist== Cross was born in Lancaster, New Hampshire, son of Ephram and Abigail (Everett) Cross; attended the common school and academy at Lancaster. When he was fifteen years old, he began writing as a printer for a local newspaper, the ''Coos Democrat''. He later moved from New Hampshire to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he worked as a printer for the ''Cincinnati Times''. He demonstrated writing skills and became a reporter for the newspaper, serving for a while as the paper's Washington correspondent. In 1854, he canvassed Ohio for the American (Know-Nothing) Party; was the Washington correspondent for the Cincinnati Times during teo sessions of Congress and also wrote articles for other newspapers including the New York Herald.〔Edward Ephraim Cross folder, Arizona Historical Society, Tucson.〕 On July 27, 1858, he left Cincinnati for Tubac, Arizona Territory, with the last contingent of the Santa Rita Silver Mining Company.〔New York Herald-Tribune, July 31, 1858, p. 3〕 Cross invested in a series of mines and then established the territory's first newspaper, the ''Weekly Arizonian''. He also served at times in the United States Army as a scout during occasional expeditions against the Apache. In 1860, he crossed the border into Mexico to command a Sonoran army garrison supporting the insurgency of Benito Juárez. On August 5, 1860, Colonel Cross, assigned to Fort Buchanan, presided a meeting of irate miners, at the ranch of Henry Theodore Titus, who demanded protection from depredations committed by Sonoran bandits. Cross enumerated the atrocities committed and paid a tribute of respect to the victims.〔“Interesting From Arizona,” New York Herald, Sept. 12, 1860, p. 10.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward E. Cross」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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