Peter Gerber
Peter Gerber, deceased, was born in Switzerland Dec. 4, 1803, where he passed his minority days. He was a carpenter by trade, which he followed as his vocation for several years. When he had attained the age of twenty-five years, he went to Holland, where he enlisted in the standing army, in which he remained five years, when he emigrated to America and located in Miamisburg, Montgomery County, O., where he married Miss Sarah Freemore, then of Miamisburg, but a native of Pennsylvania, where she was born Aug. 30, 1794. Mr. and Mrs. Gerber settled in Montgomery County, remained until in the fall of 1836, when they came to Shelby County, entered, made improvements, and settled on the N. E. quarter of section 23, Dinsmore Township, on which Mr. Gerber died Oct. 9, 1874. His companion is still surviving him, and is now residing on the old home farm with her son, John C. Gerber. They reared a family of three children, viz., Samuel, John C., and Lucinda. John C. Gerber, second son of Peter Gerber, was born in Dinsmore Township, this county. Oct. 7, 1837. He has made farming his vocation, and now owns the old home farm and several other farms in Dinsmore Township. He is considered one of the leading farmers in the township. Feb. 15, 1856, he married Miss Catharine Smith, by whom he has six children, three sons and three daughters.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883