Champaign County IL Archives Biographies.....Fry, Theodore 
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Biography of Theodore FRY, Champaign County, Illinois

From:  "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878


THEODORE FRY - Among the respected citizens and good men of Champaign
county, is Theodore FRY, the subject of this sketch.  He is another of the
hardy and enterprising sons Ohio has given to help develop this state.  He
was born in Preble county, Ohio, December 24th, 1821, and was the fourth
child of a family of five children of Cornelius and Catharine (SHAFFER)
FRY.  His parents were born in Pennsylvania, and were of German extraction.
They moved to Ohio when it was but sparsely settled, and gave little
promise of developing so rapidly into a great commonwealth.  His father,
immediately upon his arrival (about 1815), commenced farming.  His son
Theodore's life, until his twenty-first year, was passed on the homestead,
where he was constantly employed, and whenever opportunity afforded, he
never failed to endeavor to improve his mental acquirements, and mainly
through his own efforts succeeded in getting a considerable store of
practical and useful knowledge.  In 1843 he determined to begin life on his
own account, and moved to Indiana, still continuing to follow his favorite
occupation of farming.  On the 18th of October, 1843, he married Miss Lucy
Ann DRYER, who is a native of Indiana, and daughter of Edward and Margaret
(GREGORY) DRYER.  Her father was a native of Massachusetts, and her mother
(who is still living, and over eighty years of age) of Virginia.  By this
union they have had six children, in the following order of their births:
John, Edward, Kate, who married John W. KING; Alonzo, Jay and Hiram Y.  All
of them, except Mrs. King, who resides in Douglas county, live in Champaign
county.  Until 1856 Mr. Fry was a Democrat, since which time he has been a
patriotic Republican, and strongly supported that party in its efforts to
preserve the Union.  His father, Cornelius FRY, and Wm. GREGORY, an uncle
of Mrs. Fry, performed a similar office in the earlier days of the
Republic, both participating in the war of 1812.  Mr. Fry has never been an
aspirant for political honors, and has uniformly avoided any preferment in
that direction.  He has, however, frequently been elected to fill township
offices.  He is a most estimable and upright man; one who, by his own
shrewdness and foresight, together with habits of industry and sobriety,
and a character well known for its moral strength, has made his life a
success.  He furnishes a good example of what a man can accomplish through
his own unaided efforts, and a strict observance of those moral laws that
should be indelibly impressed upon the memory and hearts of the youth of
the land.


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