Gross was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, and attended
Harvard University. He and his brother
Robert E. Gross purchased the company Lockheed Corporation in 1932 and built it into an
aerospace conglomerate. Gross, his wife Alexandra Van Rensselaer Devereux Gross, and their housekeeper Catherine O'Hara VanderVeur were murdered in their home in
Villanova, Pennsylvania. Drifter Roger P. Buehl was convicted of the murders. ==References==