Edward Ziegler Gross and Nancy J. Criswell

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Husband Edward Ziegler Gross ^{1 2}

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           Born: 6 Nov 1851 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Father: Daniel Wiestling Gross (1810-      ) 1 2 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Kunkel (1823-1882) 1 2 3

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       Marriage: 18 May 1876 2

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Wife Nancy J. Criswell ²

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         Father: John Vance Criswell (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Hannah Dull (      -      ) 4

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Children

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1 F Hannah C. Gross ²

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2 M Henry McC. Gross ²

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General Notes: Husband - Edward Ziegler Gross

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He received his primary education in the private schools of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later attended the academies taught by Gause and Seiler. At the age of sixteen years, his academic course being completed, he entered the drug store of his father. In the winter of 1871 he matriculated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and graduated from that institution in the spring of 1873. He at once returned to Harrisburg and continued in the employ of his father and his brother, George A., until 1883. On January 1, of that year, he became a partner in the business. His brother retiring from the firm, the business was conducted by the father and Edward Z. until January 1, 1894. After that date the store was under the management of Edward Z. alone.
He served as school director for one term. He was one of the managers of the City Hospital, and a member of the advisory board of the Children's Industrial Home. He was a member of Robert Burns Lodge, No. 464, F. & A. M.; Dauphin Lodge, No. 160, I. O. O. F., and Star of America Commandery, No. 113, K. of M. In political views Mr. Gross was a Republican. He and his wife and daughter were members of the Pine Street Presbyterian church, in which he was an elder, the Leader of the choir, and the superintendent of the infant department of the Sabbath-school.

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 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 490.