An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 411

	DR. PETER J. GERLACH, a practicing physician of Spokane, Washington, dates
his birth in the year 1858, at Kingston, New York. He was the third born in a
family of four children, his parents being Philip and Lucinda Gerlach. Both
parents died when the Doctor was small. He received his education at
Schenectady, New York; at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey: and at
Oberlin, Ohio, after which he began the study of medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio,
and graduated there in 1886. Immediately after his graduation he began the
practice of his profession in that city. The following year he came West and
located in Spokane, and here he has since conducted a successful practice. In
the great fire that swept Spokane he was burned out, and he has been burned out
once since then. Notwithstanding these losses, he has made some successful
investments and owns considerable property. He is the proprietor of two ranches
and a number of city lots.
	Dr. Gerlach is a member of both the State and County Medical Societies; has
held office in both, and takes an active interest in association work. He is a
member of the Methodist Church, and of the orders of Knight of Pythias and
I.O.O.F. He was made a Knight of Pythias in Cincinnati in 1886, is now a member
of Falls City Lodge, No. 40. and is Past Chancellor, and one of the trustees of
the same. He joined the Odd Fellows that same year, Ohio Lodge, No. 1.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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