Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Hastings Gehr and Mary Fisher Smith




Husband Hastings Gehr 1

           Born: 10 May 1839 1
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         Father: Daniel O. Gehr (1812-1884) 2
         Mother: Harriet Berryhill (1811-1878) 3


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Wife Mary Fisher Smith 1

           Born: 4 Mar 1841 1
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         Father: Frederick Smith (      -      ) 1
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Children
1 F Mary Gehr 1

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           Died: while young
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2 M Daniel O. Gehr 1

           Born: 24 Sep 1865 1
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         Spouse: Isabel Shields Ramsey (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 10 Jan 1893 1


3 M Garnet Gehr 1

           Born: 14 Aug 1868 1
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4 M George Brewer Gehr 1

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           Died: while young
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General Notes: Husband - Hastings Gehr


He was educated at the Chambersburg Academy, Mount Washington Academy, Maryland, and Duff's Business College, Pittsburgh. After leaving school he studied law, and was admitted to the Franklin county Bar, April 14, 1860. He was a clerk in the War Department, Washington, D. C, 1861-64. In the latter year he resigned, and began the practice of law in Chambersburg, for a while with Gen. Frederick S. Stumbaugh, and afterward with the Hon. George W. Brewer until Mr. Brewer's death in 1886. He was Register in Bankruptcy for the counties of Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Somerset, 1867-74, and a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1875-77. He was later in the active practice of his profession in Chambersburg.

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Sources


1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 332.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 105, 331.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 105, 332.


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