Isaac B. Gerow and Maria Mossinger

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Husband Isaac B. Gerow ¹

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           Born: 11 Oct 1829 - Oil Creek Twp, Crawford Co, PA 1
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         Father: Gilbert A. Gerow (Abt 1780-1844) 1
         Mother: Jeannette Titus (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Apr 1849 1

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Wife Maria Mossinger ¹

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         Father: Andrew Mossinger (      -      ) 1
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Children

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1 M John Gerow ¹

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         Spouse: Catherine Peck (      -      ) 1

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2 M Gilbert Gerow ¹

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3 M Daniel Gerow ¹

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4 M Daniel T. Gerow ¹

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         Spouse: Lillie Hyde (      -      ) 1

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5 M Marvin Gerow ¹

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6 M Henry Gerow ¹

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7 M Obed Gerow ¹

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8 F Emma L. Gerow ²

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         Spouse: Irad C. Drake (1849-      ) 2
           Marr: 8 May 1883 2

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General Notes: Husband - Isaac B. Gerow

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He spent the first five years of his married life in Venango County, PA. Afterward he lived three years in Riceville, Crawford County, engaging in the lumber business. He then returned to Venango County and manufactured lumber for twenty-two years. In 1870 he purchased the farm in Cambridge Township, Crawford County, where he thereafter resided. He held the office of County Commissioner one term; Auditor of his township six years, and many other minor offices. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church; in politics a Republican. Among the many adventures Mr. Gerow experienced in the early days, may be recorded the following: In the summer of 1854 a lynx or catamount inhabited the woods surrounding Mr. Gerow’s residence in Venango Township, and became the terror of the neighborhood. On Christmas day of that year our subject and five others went in pursuit of the lynx, taking a fox hound with them which soon got on the scent and drove the brute to cover under some tree tops lying in a deep hollow. Mr. Gerow, managing to get a fair aim at his lynxship, fired and killed him. The animal measured five and a half feet from tip to tip.

1 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 807.

2 —, The History of Crawford County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner Beers & Co., 1885), Pg 805.