BIO: Daniel HERR, 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, pages 217-218. 
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  HERR, COL. DANIEL, was born on the 14th of December, 1795, at 
Hagerstown, Md.  His ancestors were among the first settlers in 
Lancaster county, Pa., from whence the family name has become wide-
spread.  Daniel learned the trade of a house carpenter, an occupation 
he pursued several years.  During the last war with Great Britain he 
was lieutenant colonel of a volunteer regiment in active service.  In 
later life he followed hotelkeeping.  He kept the Tremont House at 
Philadelphia, the Mansion House at Reading, and that famous hostelry, 
Herr's Hotel, now the Lochiel, at Harrisburg.  He was a prominent 
member of the Masonic fraternity, and during the Anti-Masonic crusade 
never swerved from his allegiance to the fraternity, being master of 
his lodge from 1835 to 1838, inclusive.  He was a man pure in purpose, 
amiable, kind, and generous hearted, yet firm and decided as to 
opinions and duty.  He died at Harrisburg, sincerely regretted, on the 
11th of July, 1857, in his sixty-second year.  Colonel Herr married, 
February 15, 1820, in Gettysburg, Pa., Sarah Gilbert, daughter of Boise 
Gilbert and Susanna Fox, born February 14, 1801, and died April 13, 
1880, at Harrisburg.  Their children were George Isaiah, d. s. p.; John 
Davenport, married Jane Nancy Sutton; Margaret Ann, married, first, 
Peter Nagle Coleman, second, George Leonard; Amelia Matilda, married 
John Peter Hassler; Andrew Jackson; Jacob Gilbert, married Mary Taylor; 
Susanna, married Dr. Jacob G. Wiestling; Sarah Isabella, married George 
Z. Kunkel; Daniel B.; William Henry Harrison, d. s. p.; Mary Elizabeth, 
married Charles Lipps; Louisa Irene, married Charles A. Bannvart.