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Gross is a Mennonite family name. On the basis of historical inference, and in the absence of published genealogies, the Gross family name may have had its inception in the Austrian [[Tyrol (Austria)|Tyrol]] among the early [[Hutterian Brethren (Hutterische Brüder)|Hutterites]], although this has not been firmly established. The name appears among the Hutterites in [[Russia|Russia]] after the migration of 1770. When the practice of [[Community of Goods|community of goods]] was abandoned at Radicheva in 1819, there were Grosses among those who abandoned the practice. During the immigration of Hutterites to [[North America|North America]] following 1874, the name Gross appeared among those who settled on non-communal farms in [[South Dakota (USA)|South Dakota]].

In the following years independent churches were organized, composed entirely of non-colonist Hutterites. Some of these churches joined the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]] (GCM), and a number of their members, moving from rural to urban centres or marrying Mennonites, joined GCM congregations. The Gross name appears predominantly among [[South Dakota (USA)|South Dakota]] Mennonites. One member of the family, Harold H. Gross, was dean of Freeman College.

A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.

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	A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)\|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany\|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)\|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)\|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.		A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)\|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany\|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)\|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)\|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.
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	A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)\|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany\|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)\|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)\|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.		A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)\|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany\|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)\|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)\|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)\|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.
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 Gross is a Mennonite family name. On the basis of historical inference, and in the absence of published genealogies, the Gross family name may have had its inception in the Austrian [[Tyrol (Austria)|Tyrol]] among the early [[Hutterian Brethren (Hutterische Brüder)|Hutterites]], although this has not been firmly established. The name appears among the Hutterites in [[Russia|Russia]] after the migration of 1770. When the practice of [[Community of Goods|community of goods]] was abandoned at Radicheva in 1819, there were Grosses among those who abandoned the practice. During the immigration of Hutterites to [[North America|North America]] following 1874, the name Gross appeared among those who settled on non-communal farms in [[South Dakota (USA)|South Dakota]].
-In the following years independent churches were organized, composed entirely of non-colonist Hutterites. Some of these churches joined the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]] (GCM), and a number of their members, moving from rural to urban centres or marrying Mennonites, joined GCM congregations. The Gross name appears predominantly among [[South Dakota (USA)|South Dakota]] Mennonites. One member of the family, Harold H. Gross, was dean of Freeman College.
+In the following years independent churches were organized, composed entirely of non-colonist Hutterites. Some of these churches joined the [[General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM)|General Conference Mennonite Church]] (GCM), and a number of their members, moving from rural to urban centers or marrying Mennonites, joined GCM congregations. The Gross name appears predominantly among [[South Dakota (USA)|South Dakota]] Mennonites. One member of the family, Harold H. Gross, was dean of Freeman College.
 A different branch of the Gross family originated with [[Gross, Jakob (1743-1810)|Jakob Gross]] (ca. 1743-1810) who emigrated from either Switzerland or [[Germany|Germany]] to eastern [[Pennsylvania (USA)|Pennsylvania]] about 1763. Jakob became a Mennonite preacher at [[Deep Run  Mennonite Church East (Perkasie, Pennsylvania, USA)|Deep Run]] in the [[Franconia Mennonite Conference (Mennonite Church USA)|Franconia Conference]] of the Mennonite Church (MC) by 1775, and was later ordained bishop. He was the father of Christian Gross (1776-1865), a minister of Deep Run; John K. Gross (1786-1864), minister of [[Doylestown Mennonite Church (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA)|Doylestown]]; Jacob Gross (1780-1865), bishop in Ontario; and Daniel Gross (1784-1875), deacon of Deep Run. A number of other men named Gross have served in the ministry of the Franconia Conference, including bishops Samuel G. Gross (1839-95) and Joseph L. Gross (b. 1904) of [[Doylestown (Pennsylvania, USA)|Doylestown]]. Of considerable influence in the Franconia Conference was Mahlon Gross (1873-1937), who left the Methodist Church in which he was a local preacher to return to the Mennonite faith of his ancestors; he was chosen as minister in Doylestown on 25 May 1920.
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