Subject: KFY: BIO: Curry, John F. s/o James & Isabella Curry - Unknown Co

CURRY,   HOGG,   HAWK,   PARVIN,   COLSHEAR,   ANDERSON,  MCCLANAHAN,MCCRARY
"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.SULLIVAN CO., IN.HAMILTON TWP.PAGE 720

JOHN F. CURRY was born near Terre Haute, Ind., February 28, 1824, son of James
and Isabella (Hogg) Curry, natives of Kentucky, who came to Indiana among the
earliest settlers near Vincennes, and engaged in farming, dying in Knox County.
Our subject, at the age of fourteen years, served as apprentice in the tailor
ship of Peter Hawk, at Carlisle, where he remained five years, when he started
in business for himself. In 1846, he quit the tailoring business, and began
clerking for J. M. Parvin at Carlisle in the dry goods, staying with him until
1863, when he went to Illinois, remaining six years, and in 1869 returned to
Carlisle.  In 1872, he was elected Sheriff of Sullivan County, and moved to
Sullivan.  In 1875, he went into the grocery business, being still engaged in
the same. Mr. Curry  belongs to one of the oldest families of the county.  He
was married, February 18, 1847, to Miss Isabell Colshear, who bore him three
children--Samuel and James (deceased), and Laura, wife of Thomas W. Anderson,
who resides at Fort Worth, Texas.  Mrs. Curry died May 28, 1851, and October 8,
1853, Mr. Curry was married to Mary McClanahan, a daughter of John and
Elizabeth (McCrary) McClanahan, natives of Kentucky, and to this union were
born two children--Hosea Coleman, and John Rush (deceased). He and family are
members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an Odd Fellow, Sullivan Lodge,
No. 147.  Politically, Mr. Curry is a Republican, and is the only Sheriff
elected by that party.
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