C. C. Cross, president and general manager of the Troy Body Company, of Troy, Ohio, has been identified with the automobile manufacturing industry since 1904 and is one of the best-known men in his line in this part of the State. He was born at Narragansett, R. I., a son of James F. and Sallie (Tucker) Cross, and belongs to one of the old and prominent families of New England, one of the early progenitors of which served as the first mayor of the city of Newport, R.1. After attending the public schools of his native place, Mr. Cross pursued a course in the Rhode Island State College, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Science, and following this took a special course in mechanical engineering at the same college. Subsequently, he was employed by the Nicholson File Company, of Providence, R. I., and then for two years traveled through the West with Mrs. Cross, who was in ill health. Going to Philadelphia he became manager of the Black Diamond File division of the Nicholson File Company, and in 1904, entered the automobile industry with Colonel Pope. He was later associated with the colonel's son, Harold Pope, having charge of the department of the Tribune Motors Company, at Hagerstown, Md. From this concern Mr. Cross went to the Buick Automobile Company and later became assistant superintendent of the Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Company's plant at Newcastle, Ind. For four years, also, Mr. Cross was identified with the Chalmers Motors Company, after which he assisted in the organization of the Saxon Motors Company, of which he served as general manager until buying in 1916, a one-third interest in the Troy Manufacturing Company, of Troy, manufacturers of automobile bodies, spoken of in the Industrial chapters of this work, which company discontinued operation in 1918. Through his efforts the Troy Body Company was formed in 1919 and he became president and general manager of the new concern. During the war period this company was engaged extensively in making parts for aeroplanes, the company's product including 300 different parts. At this time the concern manufacturers bodies for the Chalmers, H. C. S. Special, Liberty, Grant, Monroe, Sears-Scoville, Louisiana, Texas and Scoville cars. Mr. Cross has a number of important business connections and is also well known in club life of Troy, Dayton and Detroit, Mich., being president of the Pere Marquette Rod and Gun Club. By his first marriage, he had one son: Fulton. His second wife was formerly Miss Olive D. Doucet, of Boston, Mass., and they are the parents of four children: Constance, James, Olive and Laurence.