Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Daniel Wiestling Gross and Elizabeth Kunkel




Husband Daniel Wiestling Gross 1 2 3

           Born: 11 Mar 1810 - Middle Paxtang Twp, Dauphin Co, PA 1
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         Father: Abraham Gross (1781-1835) 1
         Mother: Anna Maria Wiestling (1789-1856) 1


       Marriage: 18 Nov 1841 1 3



Wife Elizabeth Kunkel 1 2 3

           Born: 1 Mar 1823 3
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           Died: 18 Jun 1882 3
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         Father: George Kunkel (1784-1850) 4 5
         Mother: Catharine Ziegler (1797-1833) 4 5




Children
1 M George A. Gross 1

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2 M John K. Gross 1

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3 M Joshua Wiestling Gross 1

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4 M Daniel Wiestling Gross 1

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5 M Edward Ziegler Gross 1 2

           Born: 6 Nov 1851 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Nancy J. Criswell (      -      ) 2
           Marr: 18 May 1876 2


6 M Henry Sahler Gross 1

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7 M Robert Gross 1

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8 F Mary Elizabeth Gross 1

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General Notes: Husband - Daniel Wiestling Gross


He was educated in the schools of the borough of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and at the academy there. He learned the profession of druggist and apothecary, and commenced business in 1830. He served in the municipal offices of member of Town Council and school director a long period. He was for many years one of the trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Harrisburg, and afterwards its treasurer; was president of the board of trustees of the theological seminary of the Reformed Church, vice-president of the board of trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, and was president of the board of publication of the Reformed Church of the United States for many years.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 575.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 401.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 358.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 514.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 357.


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