Cumberland-Sullivan County PA Archives Biographies.....GROSS, Frank M. 1852 - 
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  FRANK M. GROSS, M. D., a physician of good repute throughout Sullivan County, is
  a highly esteemed citizen of Forksville. He is a son of Dr. James D. and Ann
  (Brenizer) Gross, and was born at Mechanicsburg, Cumberland County, Pa., January
  4, 1852.
  
    James D. Gross, father of our subject, was born near Mechanicsburg, Cumberland
  County, and was a son of Jacob and Catherine (Barnhart) Gross. The family on the
  paternal side came from Maryland, and his mother was a native of Cumberland
  County, Pa. The father was a man of high educational attainments and was a
  graduate of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa. He chose medicine as his
  profession and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia,
  after which he commenced practice at Shepherdstown, Pa. He later went to White
  Pigeon, Mich., and finally located at Flat Rock, O., where he died at the age of
  forty-three years. He married Ann Brenizer, a daughter of George Brenizer of
  Cumberland County, and they had but one child, the subject of this sketch. Mrs.
  Gross passed away in her sixty-fifth year.
  
    Frank M. Gross was but a child when his father died, and his mother passed
  away March 20, 1888. He attended the public schools of Mechanicsburg and later
  the Cumberland Valley Institute, being possessed of high ambitions and
  determined to obtain a good education. Noting the success attained by his father
  as a physician, he decided to study medicine, and entered the office of Dr.
  Harshbarger, now of New Albany, Pa. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical
  Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881, and, with a grim determination to
  succeed, he entered upon his practice at Burnt Cabin, Pa. He subsequently
  followed his profession in the following places: New Albany, Pa.; Forkston,
  Wyoming County, Pa.; Loomis, Mich.; Little Meadows, Susquehanna County, Pa.;
  Powell, Pa.; and in 1897 located at Forksville, Sullivan County, Pa., succeeding
  to the practice of Dr. Ormsby and forming a partnership with Dr. Blake E.
  Gamble. He has attained a high degree of efficiency in the diagnosing and
  treatment of cases and his efforts have been attended by the best of results.
  
    Dr. Gross was united in marriage with Armetta Simpson, a daughter of Isaac D.
  Simpson of Waverly, N. Y., and they have one daughter, Maud, who was born at
  West Auburn, Susquehanna County, Pa., June 12, 1881, and is a student of the
  Waverly Academy. Dr. Gross is an Odd Fellow.
  
  
  
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    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
  
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