[M] #41630 Peter Gross ( Catherine KuntzElizabeth SteiningerAnna Elizabeth MechlingDiebold "Theobald" MechlingDiebold MechlingMartin Mechling )

Peter was born 19 Jun 1816 in Lehigh Co., Pennsylvania. He was baptised 11 Aug 1816 in Jordan Reformed Church. He died 24 Apr 1896.

He was confirmed in the German Reformed Church.

When he was 20, he worked as a carpenter in Huntingdon Co., New Jersey. Two years later he worked in a store in Ballietsville, Pennsylvania, and the same year was appointed post master of N. Whitehall Post Office. In 1841, he leased a store at Laury's Station, Pennsylvania and the next year sold his interest in that store and went to work as a clerk for his future father-in-law, Durs Rudy. In 1843, he went into business with his brother, Joel, in a store in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania where he remained for 31 years. In 1875, he became the president of the National Bank of Slatington.

Peter married first #41789 Mary Rudy.

Relationship notes

They married 26 Mar 1843.

 

Mary was born 1816. She died 7 Feb 1874.

She is the daughter of Durs & Salome (Egner) Rudy.

Children of this relationship:

#41790MiJoseph P. Gross(21 Nov 1851–21 Dec 1885)

Peter (relationship status suppressed while one person possibly living) second #41791 Living.

(Information suppressed while possibly living)


Dorothy Hallarn Mercy, Mechlin Mechling Macklin - Descendants of Theobald Mechling, 1728-1999, Volume V-Anna Elizabeth Mechling, (Butler, PA: Mechling Associates, 1998). Ref. as [Mercy V-99].


Line Generation: 7

Relationship: Third Cousins Four Times Removed through Diebold "Theobald" Mechling