Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Gerstner, Peter
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Joe Patterson, Patricia Bastik & Susan Walters Dec 2009

Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Milford Township


   PETER GERSTNER miller, P.O. Steinsburg, is the son of 
Frederick and Elizabeth Gerstner, and was born in Prussia in 
1804.  He came to America in 1832.  At the age of 21 Mr. 
Gerstner learned his trade, which he followed in various 
places in this county after coming to America, but for the 
past eighteen years has been at his present location.  In 
1858 he married Miss Carolina, daughter of Peter Smith, of 
Northampton county.  They had two children, one of whom is 
deceased.  William, the survivor, entered school at the age 
of 16 and was a student of the Kutztown Normal school, Berks 
county.  In 1881 he married Miss Celesta Jones, of this 
county, to whom two children were born:  Annie and Caroline. 
 At the age of 21 William commenced farming with his father. 
 He is also carrying on the milling trade.