| GERO Family History |
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| Doane "Bud" R. Gero (1919-1968) |
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| Doane Russel "Bud" Gero (1919-1968) Born in Pittsburg Pennsylvania on the 6th of August 1919, "Bud" grew up just across the Ohio River in East Liverpool, Ohio with his parents Karl William Gero (1887-1943) and Eva Lorena Glenn (1891-1968). He had one sister, Pauline. An obituary (Arcadia, CA, February 13, 1968) for Doane, written by fellow College of Wooster classmate, Jack Houghton '41, gives details of "Bud's" life: "'Plutarch said the measure of a man's life is the well spending of it and not the length.' Surely, by this criterion, Bud Gero's was a life of inestimable worth. Born [sic] and raised in Eastliverpool, Ohio, he arrived at [the college of] Wooster avowed to pursue a career in engineering, an objective from which he never swerved. Yet his zest for life and his love for his fellow man created in him an embullient spirit that infected everyone with whom he had contact. Who, at Wooster, knowing Bud, will ever forget his spontaneous unaffected wit, his ready laugh, his quick willingness to share another's burden? Whether boning for a physics exam, playing on First Section's softball team, waiting table at Babcock or shivering in his kilts in the Wooster College Band, Bud Gero left an indelible imprint on all whom he touched. " He married the former Jean Coleman '43 [1921- 2006] while at Harvard Graduate School, shortly after graduation from Wooster. Their's was a lifetime of devotion and companionship which carried them despite trials and tribulation to a deep and abiding family life. "Bud's career was steady, solid, and significant. Starting with Martin Aircraft in 1943, he held successive positions as Head of Design and Development Activity for Goodyear Aircraft [OH], Vice president of Giannnini Controls Corporation [CA], President of Information Systems Inc., President of Industrial Controls, Division of Emerson Electric Co. [CA], and finally President of Rantec, Division of Emerson [CA]. Along the way, he was responsible for significant developments in supersonic aircraft and made notable contributions to engineering literature. "Bud's greatest avocational interest was music. An accomplished trumpet player, he delighted in performing with the Kiwanis Dixiland Band, and the 'Maestro's' a group of business and professional men playing together regularly. And increasingly his membership in the Santa Anita Church, where he gave unstintingly of himself to the Church school, intensifying his already deep and abiding faith in his Lord and Master. But the greatest fruition of Bud's truly Christian spirit came in his devotion to their family of four sons and two daughters [Wendy, Gary, Karl Timothy, Glenn and Jeannine,]and to their adopted daughter [Michelle]... He was a genuine family man who lived his love for them day in and day out. "Truly it may be said of Bud Gero that he was a living example of what the prophet Micah meant in saying, 'What doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God'." |
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| Karl William Gero (1887-1943) |
| Karl William Gero (1887-1943) Karl William Gero was born on April 9, 1887 in Holyoke MA, son of paper mill machinist William B. Gero and Lizzy Whiton. He went to Missouri to attend college sometime as a young man. There he met and married Eva Lorena Glenn (1891-1968) who was the sister of one of his college friends. Karl and Eva had two children, Doane Russel and Pauline "Skip". Karl was know as "shorty" (presumably to his friends) due to his stature. As an adult he was 5' 2" tall. Eva, too, was short at 4'11". Once married, Karl and Eva moved to East Liverpool, Ohio where they settled down. Karl became active in the local Y.M.C.A. and at the age of 24 (1915) Karl attended a Y.M.C.A. training facility in Silver Bay, New York. The next year (1916) he went to Newark OH to attend a state meeting of Y.M.C.A executives. He was active in the local Lions Club and interested in civic affairs. The same year the local newspaper, the "Eastliverpool Review", noted that "The Lions Club debated the city manager form of Government for East Liverpool with Karl Gero...participating." The following year (1917) the newspaper describes how "Karl W. Gero, boy work director at the Y.M.C.A, took a party of 50 boys on an inspection of the Indian Caves along Beaver Creek" located some 10 miles from town. Karl continued his work with the Y.M.C.A teaching penmanship, and eventually becoming the secretary of the "Y" in East Liverpool. His involvement with the "Y" had a significant impact of his son Doane. Doane continued the tradition through his own very active involvement with the Y.M.C.A. of Pasadena, California where he moved in 1954. Karl died in 1943 and is buried in the East Liverpool cemetery along side his wife Eva (d.1968) and Eva's parents, Franklin Glenn (d. 1946) and Etta Eugenia Baxter Glenn (d. 1954). |
| William B. Gero (1851-1915) William Gero was born on October 1, 1851 in the Vermont mill town of Milton (In Milton county which is now called Chitteden Co.) He married Elizabeth (LIzzy) J. Whiton (9/11/1855-19) of Tolland Connecticut on November 28 1877 in Holyoke Massachusetts. They had four children, Karl William (1887), Irving Ward (1883), Stephen Whiton (abt 1883?) and Raymond Whiton Gero (1877). While living in Milton, according to his wedding record (left), William worked as a paper maker in one of the paper mills of the town. He likely moved to Holyoke sometime prior to his 25th birthday. A 1900 Census Index Card lists William, Lizzy and the two younger boys Irving and Carl as Living at 16 Beacon St., Holyoke MA. This address places their residence only two blocks from the protestant Forestdale Cemetery and the Catholic cemetery St. Jerome. Since William died in Holyoke, it is likely that he could be buried there. |
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| Marriage Record for William B. Gero |
| Joseph Gero
(1818 - 1915) NEW INFROMATION NOT YET ADDED Joseph Gerow (as it is spelled in early census records) was born in Canada in 1818. He probably met his wife, Julia Fordais dit Comtoir/Counter, in Canada and they got married around 1840 in Montreal Canada. Their early life together was spent in Bytown, a section of Montreal where, in 1842, Joseph and Julia welcomed their first child, a girl named Percival Mary who was born in January. Over the next five years they added to their family with another daughter, Seline (abt 1844), and their first son, Joseph II born about 1847. Within the next four years they all emigrated to Milton Vermont. In Milton Joseph Sr. worked as a machinist in paper mills around the area. During this time they had two more sons, William B. (1 Oct 1851), and Herrick who was born about 1854. Herrick was named after his maternal uncle, Herrick Counter, who lived in Milton for a time with at least one of his brothers, Ezekiel and possibly others of the Counter family. Sometime prior to 1855 the Gero family moved to Lee, Massachusetts where they lived with Julia's parents (Peter and Julia Tibedo Counter perhaps relatively newly arrived from Canada.) Joseph continued to work in the paper mills as a machinist in Lee. By 1860 Joseph and Julia had their own household--and a crowded one at that! In the years leading up to the 1860 census, the couple had two more sons, Edward about 1856 and Samuel in 1859. In addition to their family, their oldest, Percival, had married John Vigeant and had their first child, William, in about April 1860, just months before the census. The Gero's own Samuel was also an infant at the time of the census, having been born in about November of 1859. This tight arrangement (in a rented house in Lee) may have been cramped even further by the birth of another son, Warrren (abt 1868), but this is uncertain and unlikely. Sometime in the next ten years the Geros moved eastward to the Springfield, MA area and by the time of the 1870 census they are living in Holyoke, MA just north of Springfield. Joseph, about 60 years old now, is working locally as a laborer. He and Julia are at home with their four youngest boys: William 19 working in a paper mill, Herrick 17 unemployed, Edward 15 working in a cotton mill, and the youngest Samuel, who is still in school. On the 8th of December, 1897, Joseph, the papermaker from Canada, dies from pneumonia at the age of 79 in Springfiled, Easthampton, MA. Julia moves into the household of her daughter Percival, her husband John Virgeant and three of their ten children (Raymond (22), Estella (21) and Edward H. (20)) at 23 Wolcott St. in Holyoke, MA. The situation is reversed now. The young couple of forty years before, who lived with their newborn in the parent's home are now caring for mother and mother-in-law. Julia dies on November 17, 1908 in Holyoke and is buried in St Jerome Cemetery. |
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| A working website of short bios and links for those interested in the family history of Doane Russel Gero--Known to his friends and associates as "Bud" and his sister, Pauline, known to nieces and nephews as "Aunt Skip". |
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| Updated: 29 Dec 2016 |