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cemetery at that place. He married, 

 May 19, 1793, at Nesha,miny Presby- 

 terian Church, his cousin Elizabeth 

 Dungan, daughter of Jeremiah and Ann 

 (Whitton) Dungan, of Northampton 

 township, Bucks county, and three chil- 

 dren were born to them: Thomas, died 

 in infancy; Elizabeth, who married 

 George Taylor Stuckert, and had one 

 child Elizabeth, the wife of Dr. William 

 Wilby Burnell of Philadelphia; and an- 

 other Thomas. 



Another prominent descendant of Rev. 

 Thomas Dungan was General Mahlon 

 Dungan, born April 23, 1780, died De- 

 cember 8, 1848, seventh child of David 

 and Sarah (Newell) Dungan, grandson 

 of David and Rachel Dungan, and great- 

 grandson of Jeremiah, fourth son of Rev. 

 Thomas Dungan. He married, October 

 7, 1802, Phoebe Addis, daughter of John 

 and Mary of Northampton, and lived foi* 

 many years at "Lakeside," the ancestral 

 home of Thomas Yardley, at Yardley, 

 Pennsylvania, built in 1728. He was a 

 prominent Democratic politician,' and a 

 Mason of high degree. He was elected 

 in January, 1824, brigadier-general of 

 Bucks county militia and had command 

 of the military escort that accompanied 

 Marquis Lafayette across Bucks county 

 on his visit to America in 1824. In 1827 

 he was a candidate for the nomination 

 for sherifif, and was defeated by Genera! 

 John Davis. He left three children, 

 viz.: John A., born August 11. 1803, mar- 

 ried Amelia V. Bailey, and left one son 

 Mahlon, died 1849, Methodist minister 

 at Yardley, and three daughters; Levi,, 

 born March 23, 1805, died August 5,. 

 1824, unmarried; and Mary Ann, died 

 1831, unmarried. 



HENRY W. GROSS, of Doylestown, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was bom in 

 New Britain township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, February 4, 1842, and is a 

 son of Joseph N. and Sarah (Wismer) 

 Gross. 



Rev. Jacob Gross, the great-grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch, was 

 a native of Germany and came to this 

 country about 1763, locating in Hatfield, 

 now Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 

 from whence about the year 1780 he re- 

 moved to Bedminster township, where 

 he purchased a farm and resided until 

 his death, December 12, i8jo, at the age 

 of si.xty-seven years. He was for many 

 3^ears a minister of the Mennonite con- 

 gregation at Deep Run, and later a 

 bishop of that denomination. His wife 

 Mary nee Krall. survived him and died in 

 Bedminster, February 10, 1816, at the 

 age of sixty-five years. They were the 

 parents of six children: Isaac, Christian, 

 Mary, wife of Abraham Nash, Jacob, 

 Daniel and John. 



Daniel Gross, son of Jacob and Mary, 

 was born May 24, 1784, and was a farmer 

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in Bedminster, and later in Doylestown 

 township, where he died in 1875. He 

 married, June 20, 1809, Elizabeth Nash, 

 born June 25, 1788, died November 9, 

 1823. She was a daughter of Joseph and 

 Elizabeth (Wismer) Nash, and grand- 

 daughter of William Nash, an early Ger- 

 man settler on the Skippack, who later _ 

 settled in Bedminster township. Joseph 

 Nash was born January 18, 1753, ^nd died 

 May 31, 1830, was a farmer and weaver 

 in Tinicum township, Bucks county. He 

 was a member of the Mennonite congre- 

 gation at Deep Run and a deacon for 

 many years. His wife, Elizabeth Wis- 

 mer, was a native of Bedminster and was 

 born September i, 1753, died September 

 9, 1837. Daniel Gross was a deacon of 

 the Doylestown Mennonite congregation 

 for thirty years. His children were: 

 Mary, born May 20, 1812, died Septem- 

 ber 12, 1813; Joseph N., born August 3, 

 1816, see forward; Elizabeth, and So- 

 phia, married Samuel Kaisinger. 



Joseph N. Gross, eldest son of Daniel 

 and Elizabeth (Nash) Gross, born in 

 Bedminster township, August 3, 1816, 

 was a lifelong farmer. On his marriage 

 he located on a farm in New Britain 

 .township, on which he resided for forty- 

 four years. He was a Mennonite, and 

 politically was a Republican. He took 

 an active interest in local affairs, and 

 served for a number of years as a school 

 director, also filled the position of county 

 auditor. He died April 13, 1902. He 

 married, March 16, 1841, Sarah Wismer, 

 born April 30, 1819, daughter of Samuel 

 and Susanna Wismer, and they were the 

 parents of five children: Henry W., the 

 subject of this sketch; Susanna, born. 

 June 4, 1843, died December 11, 1873,. 

 married William J. Leatherman, of 

 Plumstead: Daniel W., born June 3,. 

 1846, died February 12, 1880, unmarried; 

 Levi N., born October 24, 1854, removed' 

 to Oakland, California; and Isaiah W., 

 born January 10, 1861, living in Phila- 

 delphia. 



Henry W. Gross was born and reared 

 on the farm in N^^w Britain township,, 

 and attended the public schools there,- 

 later entering the First State Normal! 

 school at Millersville, Pennsylvania., 

 from which he graduated in 1873. He 

 taught school in Bucks and Allegheny 

 counties for sixteen years ; was princi- 

 pal of the Etna borough schools, Alle- 

 gheny county, for five years. Since 1880' 

 he has been connected with the cream- 

 ery business. In politics Mr. Gross is a 

 Republican, but has never sought or 

 held other than local office. He has 

 served as school director of Doylestown 

 township for two terms. He is inter- 

 ested in several local institutions, and is 

 president of the White Hal! Mutual Fire 

 Insurance Company, and of the Chalfont 

 Mutual Wind and Storm Insurance Com- 

 pany. Religiously, he is a member of 

 Doylestown Presbyterian church, of 



