Biography

12/30/1852 - 02/23/1897

GEARING, Frederick K, a Representative of Allegheny County; born, December 30, 1852 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; carpenter; co-owner, South Side Lumber Company; elected, select council, Pittsburgh (2 terms); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1879 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1881); elected, delegate, Republican State Convention (1890); elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (1893); president, Southside Hospital, Pittsburgh; died, February 23, 1897 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania ; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.