Biography

11/12/1825 - 12/17/1893

GROSS, Jacob L., born, November 12, 1825 in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pa.; brigadier general, Pennsylvania Militia; attorney; surveyor; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat American in 1854; gold prospector, California; taxidermist; farmer; elected, freeholder, Camden County, NJ (1880); elected, council-at-large, Camden (1890): died, December 17, 1893 in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey; interred, Harleigh Cemetery, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey.