BIO:  James Gerry, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 174

JAMES GERRY, M. D., a physician of Shrewsbury, York County, was born February 4, 1839, and is 
the second son of James and Salome (Hoffman) Gerry, natives of Maryland, and of Scotch-Irish 
and German descent.  James Gerry, the grandfather, came from Scotland in the eighteenth 
century, and located in Maryland, where at one time he was a member of the Maryland General 
Assembly from Cecil County.  He followed farming, and was also a kind of a local lawyer.  The 
subject of this sketch was brought up in Shrewsbury, where he learned the drug business with 
his father.  His earlier education he received at the public schools, and at the Shrewsbury 
Academy.  Being induced by his father to study the practice of medicine, he entered Dickenson 
College, at Carlisle, Penn., when twenty years old, but at the breaking out of the late war he 
left that college as a junior, and entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, 
graduating in the spring of 1863, as M. D.  He also took a course of operative surgery under 
Dr. Agnew.  After finishing his studies he came to Shrewsbury, where he at once commenced to 
practice medicine in connection with the drug business.  In January, 1876, he was married, at 
Weisburg, Md., to Miss Hunter, daughter of Pleasant Hunter, of Maryland; they have one child – 
Carroll.  Dr. Gerry is a prominent Mason of the Knight Templar degree, and is also a member of 
Consistory S. P. R. S., Thirty-second degree, as well as a Past Master of Shrewsbury Lodge.  
For six years he had held the position of president of the school board.  He is quite a 
successful physician, especially in the treatment of Bright’s Disease, and is surgeon for the 
Northern Central Railroad Company.