Eli H. Ross (1848 - 1926), was born to Alexander and Bithia (Hurin) Ross; he married Linnie Caroline Barker (1852 - 1829), daughter of Robert Jordan and Dorcas (Gossett) Barker, on June 18, 1889. They were both born in Indiana. No children were born to this union. Eli was a farmer and Linnie was a homemaker. This diary is an Excelsior Diary for 1889 and it contained: calendar for 1889, eclipses, morning stars, evening stars, planets brights, movable feasts, chronological cycles, time tables for selected cities in United States and Europe, interest tables, table of wages by the week, wind direction and velocity signals, weather signals, weights and measures, domestic postage, foreign postage, principal cities, state and territorial statistics, value of foreign coins, and daily entries from Eli H. Ross. He also notes the temperature for each day.