JOHN P. GERBERICH
John P. Gerberich, was the next to occupy this responsible office, being elected thereto in the fall of 1875. He was re-elected in 1877, serving, in all, four years. Mr. Gerberich is now the cashier of the Cass county bank, of Atlantic.
John P. Gerberich came to Atlantic on the 26th of April, 1871, and engaged in the First National bank, as cashier, but remained in that institution less than a year, when he left to accept the position of bookkeeper in the hardware establishment of S. F. Martin. He remained in the latter position until he was elected to the office of county treasurer. He was born in Lebanon county, Pennsylvania, on the 25th of March, 1832, and is the son of Henry and Margaret (Urhich) Gerberich, both of whom are dead. John was brought up on a farm, where he lived until he was nineteen years old, when he commenced teaching school, in Lebanon and at Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania. He was married at Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, on the 7th of September, 1855, to Lizzie Shoener, a native of that county. After his marriage he removed to Ohio, and remained at Monroeville, until March, 1856, when he emigrated to Putnam county, Illinois, where he taught school. In the fall of 1858 he was elected sheriff of that county and held the position two years. He then served four years as clerk of the courts, but on the expiration of his term in that office entered into the grain business, which he carried on until coming to Cass county. He has had five children, two of whom, Charles and Cora, are dead, and Estelle, Nellie and Lulu are living. Mr. Gerberich is the present cashier of the Cass County bank, an institution he entered in January, 1880.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 358.
