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Source: Vol. II  pg.68-69  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        DANIEL T. GEROW, United States collector of internal revenue for the
District of Florida, has been a resident of Jacksonville, this state, for forty
years and has been influential in public life in general civic affairs in the
Florida metropolis, where he holds and inviolable place in popular confidence
and good will.
	Mr. Gerow was born at Titusville, Pennsylvania, and is indebted to the 
common schools of his native state for his preliminary education, which was 
supplemented by a course in the Pennsylvania State Normal School at Edinboro,
from which he was graduated. After four years of effective service as a teacher
in the schools of the old Keystone State he was admitted to the bar at
Meadville in 1881, his study of law having been carried forward under private
preceptorship. In August of that year, however, he was made manager for the
Standard Oil Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and in the following year
(April, 1882) was transferred to Jacksonville, where he continued his service
as manager of the Standard Oil Company until 1906. He also became Florida sales
manager for the Galena Signal Oil Company, and continued his connection with
that company until 1916.
	From an appreciative estimate appearing in the Florida Metropolis of 
December 31, 1921, are taken the following extracts: “Mr. Gerow’s residence in 
Jacksonville has been marked by an enviable record in various public offices. 
During the yellow-fever epidemic of 1888 the present collector was mayor of the 
city. He was postmaster from 1902 to 1914. He was a member of the State Board 
of Health for a year and a half, and a member of the County Board of Health 
four years. He served five years on the City Council, two years as a member and 
chairman of the Board of Public Works of Jacksonville, and four years as city 
auditor. In 1921 Mr. Gerow was named collector of internal revenue, one of the 
most important appointments within the power of the administration to grant, 
and he assumed this office in June of that year.”
	Mr. Gerow has been long and actively affiliated with the Masonic 
fraternity, in which his basic membership is in Covenant Lodge No. 473, A. F. 
and A. M., at Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. In his home city he is 
affiliated with Jacksonville Chapter No. 12, R. A. M., Hallmark Council No. 3, 
R. and S. M., Damascus Commandery No. 2, Knights Templars; Florida Consistory 
No. 2, A. A. S. R., in which he has received the thirty-second degree; and 
Morocco Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member also of the Knights of
Pythias. In politics he has been a leader in the republican party for many
years, and is now chairman of the Republican State Central Committee of Florida.
	In 1887 Mr. Gerow married Miss LILLIAN A. HYDE, of Townsville,
Pennsylvania. To this marriage two children were born: WILLIAM E. GEROW,
deceased, and Mrs. E. SCREVEN BOND. Mr. Gerow has two grandchildren, LILLIAN F.
GEROW and ELLEN A. BOND.


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