nominated J. Audley Brown for Governor and Elijah F. Pennypacker for Auditor General. He was also himself nominated for Secretary of Internal Affairs. He did considerable speaking during the canvass, addressing the people in Montgomery, Chester, Lancaster, and Philadelphia counties. The fall of prices having crippled trade, rendered house rents. unremunerative, and being desirous of returning to active business, he concluded in the fall of 1876 to open a family grocery again, which he did at Marshall and DeKalb streets, where he is dispensing groceries as of old. William P. and Harriet Cuthbertson have two children, Harry a young man employed as book-keeper in Philadelphia in a house in the dry goods and notions trade, and Lizzie, who lives with her parents. GENERAL JESSE H. GERY. Better than grandeur, better than gold, Is a healthy body and mind at ease, And simple pleasures that always please.-Catholic Herald. The Gery family, of Upper Hanover and surrounding townships of Montgomery and Berks counties, is one of the most numerous and respectable in the famous "upper end." It dates back to the commencement of the last century. The original progenitor, Jacob Gery, came from Switzerland, and served a term of years as "a redemptioner" to pay for his passage to Valentine Geisenur, of Herford, now Berks county. As it happened this modern Jacob was not only named like Israel of old, who wandered from his father's house, but like him, married his master's daughter, Gertrude. From this union has sprung all the Gerys of Montgomery and Berks counties. Sometime after his freedom and marriage, in 1748, he purchased of Margaret Jeckyl, who had bought of the Penn brothers, a tract of six hundred acres of land, now partly in Herford and partly in Upper Hanover. A portion of it he sold but partially cleared the remainder, and erected upon it the necessary farm buildings. Being also acquainted with the art of making tiles, he erected a tile-hut and kilns for manufacturing them. The place was thenceforward for many years known as "Gery's tile-hut," or teigel huette This Jacob Gery, the emigrant, was born May 9th, 1721, and his wife, Gertrude, 15th of the same month, 1728. He died February 23d, 1808, aged eighty-seven years, and she died February 8th, 1802, aged seventy-four years. Jacob and Gertrude Gery left nine children, five sons and four daughters: Jacob, John Adam, John, Peter, Michael, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Anna Maria, and Catharine. ren. We trace the descent only through his oldest son, Jacob, of the second generation, who was born February 11th, 1754, and was married three times, having born to him fourteen childHe first married Elizabeth Lauer. She lived nine years, and had five children, four sons and one daughter. One of the former died in infancy. The names of the survivors are the following: Jacob, the eldest, born in 1782, married Elizabeth Gregory, and died in 1828, aged forty-six years, leaving two sons and two daughters. Peter, the second son, was born in 1783, intermarried with Elizabeth Hallman, and died in 1868, aged eighty-four years, leaving five sons and three daughters. The next was Sarah, the eldest daughter, who was born in 1785, and married Peter Marsteller, died in 1853, aged sixty-seven years, leaving two daughters. The fourth was John, born in 1787, who married Catharine Graber, and died in 1873, aged eighty-six years, leaving four sons and eight daughters. The foregoing were the children of Jacob Gery, of the second generation, by his first wife. After a time he married his second wife, Anna Treichler, who lived but a short time, having one child, which died soon after its mother, in 1792. He then married his third wife, Elizabeth Treichler, of Bucks county, and they had eight children, four sons and four daughters, of whom one son and one daughter died in infancy. The other children are the following: Elizabeth, intermarried with Adam Hallman, who was born in 1793, and had six children, four sons and two daughters. Af ter the death of her first husband she married Jacob Deischer, by whom she had one son and one daughter. Deischer died in 1843, aged fifty years. Elizabeth The next child of Jacob Gery, Jr., was Michael, born in 1795. He married Sarah Nuss, who bore him eight sons and six daughters. He was for three years County Commissioner of Berks county, and died in 1870, aged seventy-five years. The next son of Jacob Gery, of the second generation, was Joseph T., the father of Jesse H. Gery, the subject of this notice. He was born at the old homestead on the 22d of January, 1801, and in 1827 married Anna, daughter of Frederick Hillegass, of Upper Hanover township. She was born January 27th, 1809, and died December 16th, 1878, in the seventieth year of her age. Joseph T. and Anna Gery had four children, one daughter and three sons: Lydia Amanda; Jesse H., born July 20th, 1831; Mary Ann died in infancy; Thomas H., born May 21st, 1837, and who married Mary Burkhalter. They have six children, four sons and two daughters. Thomas H. Gery is a farmer, and lives upon and works the ancient homestead farm. The names of their Ida, William, Mary, and Jesse H. youngest son is Joseph H., who and is intermarried with Elizabeth Baughman. They live in the West, and have four daughters, named Kate, Anna May, Mary, and Louisa. children are Alfred, Jacob, Joseph T. and Anna Gery's was born June 10th, 1839, Having given the offspring of Joseph T., we return to his other brothers and sisters, the children of Jacob, of the second generation. David Gery was born in 1804, and married Maria (or Polly) Mollhour. They had seven children: William, Jacob, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Edwin, Emma, and David, all now dead. Three of the sons had children. The next child was Maria (Polly), born in 1806. She was married to Peter Hillegass. They left one son and two daughters. She died in 1876, aged sixty-nine years. The last of the children of Jacob Gery, of the second generation, was Judia, born in 1813, and who was married first to John Berger, by whom she had one son and one daughter. After the death of Mr. B. she married Michael Hersh, and bore him one son and two daughters. Judia Hersh died November 27th, 1855, aged forty-two years. We have now traced the descent of the Gery family from the Swiss emigrant down through his eldest son, Jacob, to the fourth generation, giving the names of nearly all the descendants through that line. A brief sketch of Jesse H. Gery's ancestry on the maternal side will now be given. The father of his mother was the son of Frederick Hillegass, Sr., who was born in 1783, and died in 1859, aged seventy-six years. His wife was Lydia, a daughter of George Breinig, of Macungie, Lehigh county, who was born in 1787, and died in 1875, aged eighty-six years. The brother and sister of Anna Hillegass Gery are the following: Thomas B., married to Polly Berndt, and has had one child, named Romanus, who died a few years ago; Leah, married to Charles Graber, deceased, and has two sons, Edwin and Albert, the former of whom is married to Amanda Hevener. We return now to the primary subject of this notice, Jesse H. Gery, of Palm. He was brought up on a farm-the old Gery homestead, and had the ordinary common school training. He was afterwards sent to Oakdale Seminary in Chester county, Reading Collegiate School, and Allentown Seminary. After obtaining a good academic education, he spent some time in teaching school, after which he was entered as a student of law with the late Hon. David Krause. After passing a creditable examination he was admitted to the bar on the 23d of February, 1855. Previous to this last event he had been duly elected for five years a Brigadier General of the Second Brigade of the Second Division of the uniformed militia of Pennsylvania, and received a commission from Governor Bigder, dated June 21st, 1854. In 1866 Mr. Gery received the Democratic nomination for Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery county, was elected in October for three years, and duly commissioned by Governor Curtin on the 16th of November of the same year. Serving his term in the court to the satisfaction of officials and people, he returned to Upper Hanover again, and on the 16th of February, 1875, was elected Justice of the Peace over his competitor, Philip Super, Esq., which office he holds at present, his term ending in 1880. Mr. G. has one of the best law and miscellaneous libraries in the county, which, with his legal education, enables him to give counsel, attend to his official duties intelligently, write conveyances, and transact any description of legal business whatever that may be entrusted to his care. Jacob Gery, who figures so largely in this sketch, was a soldier, and served a term with credit in the armies of the Revolution. He died in 1829, at the ripe old age of seventy-fiveyears, and his last wife, Elizabeth, who was born in 1768, died in 1851, aged eighty-three. Joseph T. Gery inherited the homestead, and in 1860 built himself a new stone mansion, in one end of which, retired from business, he has resided some years, his son, Thomas H., farming the place. As before stated, Anna Hillegass Gery is dead, and Jesse H. and the sister, who are unmarried, now (1879) reside with the aged father. It is only necessary to say in conclusion that. General Jesse H. Gery stands very high, wherever he is known, as a correct and capable business man, whose integrity, industry and uprightness have secured him worldly competence and the respect of all. He and most of the family are members of the Reformed church. H. W. KRATZ, Esq. Better than gold is a peaceful home, Henry W. Kratz, as his name indicates, is of German extraction, and was born in Perkiomen township, Montgomery county, July 31st, 1834, and when young removed with his parents to the village of Trappe, Upper Providence township, where at first he had the benefit of common school instruc |