Lapeer County MI Archives Biographies.....Terry, George B. 1847 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

GEORGE B. TERRY. The natal day of our subject was April 25, 1847, and his
birthplace is still his home, namely, Dryden Township, Lapeer County. His
father, Benjamin Terry, came from near Lima, Livingston County, N. Y., where he
was born May 4, 1816. He was a carpenter by trade and came to Michigan in 1832,
settling where Ypsilanti now stands. Two years later he came to this county, and
took up eighty acres of land from the Government in this township. He put up
what was then considered quite an elegant home, a log house, a story and a half
high, 32x26 feet in dimensions. The home in which our subject now resides was
erected try him in 1870. He was the largest man in the county, weighing three
hundred pounds, and died in 1878. He was a charter member of the Lodge No. 51,
F. & A. M., at Almont, and was a Democrat in his political views, being
Treasurer of the Township for two years and Highway Commissioner. For thirteen
years he operated a threshing machine. Sarah Ferguson, who became the wife of
Benjamin Terry, and the mother of our subject, was born in Wayne County, N. Y.,
December 13, 1824, being the daughter of Nichols and Deborah (VanBurgh)
Ferguson, natives of New York. She came to Michigan with her father when but
eight years old and lived in Oakland County, until her marriage in 1841. They
became the parents of four children: William H. living in Almont Township, who
married Miss Isabel Watson, daughter of Adam and Helen Watson, natives of
Scotland and Ohio respectively; they have five children; Jane M., who died in
infancy; Maggie, who was called hence at the age of thirteen and our subject.
The education of our subject was taken in the district school of Dryden and in a
select school at Almont, but much of his youth was passed in assisting his
father upon the farm.

  The marriage of George B. Terry and Sarah E. Baker took place September 29,
1875. Mrs. Terry is the second daughter of Joseph and Rhoda (Chase) Baker and
was born in Ontario, Canada, June 25, 1850. Her parents were natives of, New
York, who moved to Canada many years ago. The father has passed from earth, but
Mrs. Baker resides with a son in Dryden Township. After marriage Mr. Terry
located at the old homestead, which has been his home through life. To him and
his good wife have been granted one son, G. Benjamin, who was born in 1881. Our
subject has one hundred and ninety acres of well improved land, eighty of which
are comprised in the old homestead which his father took from the Government,
and upon it all he is carrying on general farming. He has been an auctioneer for
thirteen years and has cried fifty-three sales so far in the year 1891. His
largest sale was in 1887 the receipts on that occasion being $6,500, being the
largest sale ever cried in this county in one day. In this work he takes in the
counties of Oakland, St. Clair, Macomb, Tuscola, Sanilac and Lapeer. He is a
Democrat in his political views and is now Under-Sheriff of the county and was
for four years Highway Commissioner and for two years Supervisor.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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