"GERY.â€â€The Gery family, numerous in Hereford township, Berks county, and in Montgomery county, where the forebear settled before the middle half of the eighteenth century, has been holding annual meetings since 1908. The last reunion of the family was held at Siesholtzville. The family traces its history to one Jacob Geary (Gery), who was a redemptioner, and came into the Griesemer family to work out his passage. Later he married his master's daughter, and they reared a family whose descendants are now many, scattered over Berks, Montgomery and Lehigh counties. The officers are: President, Irvin C. Gery, Siesholtzville, Pa. Vice-President, William H. Sallada, Hereford, Pa. Secretary, Jacob M. Gery, Topton, Pa. Assistant Secretary, Charles O. F. Treichler, East Greenville, Pa. Corresponding Secretary, Milton M. Gery, Zionsville, Pa. Financial Secretary, William B. Moll, Seisholtzville, Pa. Treasurer, Michael N. Gery, Hereford, Pa." (1)
Married his master's daughter.
(1) Morton L. Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania: Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families, Vol. I (Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1909), 316, 483.