BIO: Abraham GROSS, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 206.
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  GROSS, ABRAHAM, was born December 24, 1781, in Montgomery county, 
Pa., and died August 25, 1834, in Middle Paxton township, Dauphin 
county, Pa.  He was a son of John Gross and Rachel Sahler.  His father, 
John Gross, was born in November, 1749, in Western Massachusetts, not 
far from the Hudson river, where his parents were early settlers from 
the Palatinate, being of Huguenot descent.  On the eve of the 
Revolution John Gross removed to now Montgomery county, Pa.  He entered 
into the spirit of that contest at the outset, and was commissioned 
first lieutenant January 5, 1776, in Col. Arthur St. Clair's (Second 
Pennsylvania) battalion; subsequently promoted a captain in the Third 
Pennsylvania at its organization, which was formed on the basis of the 
former, but with several of his colleagues in St. Clair's battalion 
seems never to have accepted the position, or, if they did, declined it 
shortly after, especially upon the resignation of Col. Joseph Wood in 
July, 1777.  After the close of the war he removed with his family to 
now Middle Paxton township, Dauphin county, Pa., where he lived the 
remainder of his days, dying January 2, 1823. Mr. Gross married, about 
1778, Rachel Sahler, born in 1756, in Ulster county, New York; daughter 
of Abraham Sahler and Elizabeth Du Bois, of Huguenot extraction.  She 
died August 16, 1828, and with her husband buried in the old cemetery 
at Dauphin.