| Summary: | This image is a photograph used in the book Auburn, a Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village by Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, 3rd edition, 2013, depicting the history of the city and the university. From page 138: Bennett Battle Ross grew up in Auburn, the son of a minister who taught at East Alabama Male College and Alabama A&M. Ross twice served as acting API president, was the first dean of Agricultural Sciences, was state chemist, and was long remembered as "a real teacher" and "the grand old dean of chemistry." He helped build a bicycle path from Auburn to what is now Chewacla Park. One former student recalled his making tubs of lemonade at commencement time. He and his wife had Auburn's first two-bathroom house, building a separate bathroom for planned guest William Jennings Bryan, who had to cancel the visit. Ross died of heart disease in 1930 just after the completion of Ross Hall, where his body lay in state. Photo source: Auburn University Archives.
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