Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Gentry, David April 2, 1808 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 335 

David Gentry, Justice of the Peace, Centre Township, Wayne Co., Ind., was born 
in Madison County, Ky., April 2, 1808. He received a limited education in his 
native county; remained there till the fall of 1830, when he came to Wayne 
County and located three miles southwest of Centreville. In 1836 he moved to 
Centreville. In the fall that year he was elected Constable and served till 
1844, when he was elected Sheriff of the county; held that position till 1848. 
From 1853 till 1858 he was in the general mercantile business, and from 1858 
till 1866 in the grocery business. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 
1863, and has now held the office twenty years. In June, 1830, Mr. Gentry was 
married to Jane Tilley, of North Carolina. She died March 24, 1877. They had a 
family of four children; two daughters died in infancy. One son, William T., a 
graduate of West Point in the class of 1856, was appointed Second Lieutenant 
of the Fourth United States Infantry; was promoted to Captain of the 
Nineteenth Infantry, and afterward to Major of the Ninth Infantry. Apri12, 
1884, he was promoted Colonel of the Twenty-fifth U. S. Infantry, now 
stationed at Fort Snelling, Minn. The other son, James H., was educated in his 
native town, and was for several years associated in business with his father. 
He was for two years a staff officer of Governor Morton. He was in the 
wholesale grocery business in Cincinnati, Ohio, three years, and since then 
has resided in Centreville, dealing extensively in real estate. He has been 
City Clerk since 1870. He was also connected with the Richmond Telegram ten 
years. In 1858 he was married to Sarah E., daughter of Henry and Anna M. 
Beitzell. They have three daughters---Blanche, Irene and Jennie B.


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