FREDERICK GERKEN, clerk of Freedom township, Henry county, is a native of this township, having been born on April 8, 1861, to Harmon and Mary (Mahnke) Gerken.
HENRY F. GERKEN of Freedom township, Henry county, Ohio, was born on the paternal homestead in this county and township on August 26, 1858, to Harmon and Mary (Mahuke) Gerken.
HERMAN F. GERKEN, born August 20, 1865, is the fourth child of Harmon and Mary (Mahnke) Gerken, who were natives of Hanover, Germany, and were the first Low Germans to settle in Freedom township, Henry county, Ohio, where they settled in 1857.
JOHN GERKEN, blacksmith and postmaster in Gerald, Freedom township, Henry county, Ohio, was born in Adams township, Defiance county, Ohio, on November 15, 1878, the son of Henry and Mary (Fawert) Gerken.
JOHN FREDERICK GERKEN, a farmer of Monroe township, was born in Defiance county, Ohio, on February 11, 1855, the son of Frederick and Elizabeth (Rohrs) Gerken.
JOHN H. GERKEN, a farmer of Freedom township, Henry county, and residing on the old Gerken homestead in section 29, was born on this place on April 3, 1870, to Harmon and Mary (Mahnke) Gerken.