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From: "ghutchison" <>
Subject: BIO/James Gettys
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:52:11 -0500

The following is taken from the "History of The Bank of Gettysburg
1814-1864, The Gettysburg National Bank 1864-1914, of Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania" Compiled by William McSherry, LL.D. Published by The
Gettysburg National Bank, Gettysburg, Penna., 1914.

James Gettys. The founder of the Borough of Gettysburg, was born August 14,
1759. He was the owner of the lot of ground on which the Bank of Gettysburg
and the Gettysburg National Bank were built. He sold it on the 26th of
April, 1809, to William G. McPherson for $83.00. He was one of the
organizers and elected one of the first directors of the Bank of Gettysburg
in 1814, but did not long survive his election. He was Burgess of the
Borough of Gettysburg at the time of his death, March 18, 1815.
He was a man of great influence and importance in the community and
frequently held public office, having been Sheriff of the county in 1803.
He was a General in the Second Brigade, Fifth Division, Pennsylvania
Militia, in 1813. He was in the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1807 and
1808. He is buried in the Citizens' Cemetery at Gettysburg, and there is a
monument erected there to his memory.

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