Albert Henderson Wade Ross (1884–1939), whose name is often abbreviated as A. H. W. Ross, was an American businessman, lawyer, newspaper owner, and baseball team owner. Ross and the Denver Independent Publishing Company were owners from 1913 to 1963 of ''

The Denver Star ''The Denver Star'' (1888–1963), established as ''The Statesman'' and also known as ''Franklin's Paper, The Statesman'', was an American weekly newspaper for the African American community. It was published in Denver and was distributed in C ...

'' (formerly ''The Statesman''), an African-American newspaper. He owned and led the African American baseball team the

Denver White Elephants The Denver White Elephants was a semi-professional independent African-American baseball team in Denver, Colorado, United States. The team was active from 1915 to 1935, and practiced at Broadway Park at 6th and Acoma Streets in Denver. The team pla ...

, active from 1915 to 1935. Ross had also been the manager of the

Rossonian Hotel The Rossonian Hotel, is a historic building and former business located at 2650 Welton Street in the Five Points section of Denver, Colorado, United States. With PDF including both text and photos alsavailable at NARA It is listed on the National ...

(a NHRP-listed building) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, which was renamed after him in 1929. With Some sources state that Ross owned the Rossonian starting in either 1928 or 1929, and others state he owned it in the mid-1930s. 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 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E.&nb ...

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