Nobles County MN Archives Biographies.....Terry, Edwin S. 1831 - 
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Author: Arthur P. Rose (1908)

  EDWIN S. TERRY, of Worthington township, is one of the pioneer settlers of

Nobles county, having come with the vanguard of the settlers of 1872 and having

made his home on his original homestead ever since.



  In the village of Henrietta, seven miles south of the city of Rochester, N.

Y., Mr. Terry was born July 5, 1831, the descendant of a long line of American

ancestry. His parents, Ranslier and Polly (Jones) Terry, were natives of Long

Island, N. Y. In his native town Mr. Terry was reared and educated and after

growing to manhood engaged in farming. With the exception of four years when the

was engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania he followed the occupation of

farmer in New York state until the year 1871.



  In the last named year Mr. Terry started out to look for a home in the west.

He stopped off for a short time in Michigan and then went to Chetopa, Kansas,

where he passed the winter of 1871-72. A friend by the name of Branch had a

claim and was living in Nobles county at this time, and through him Mr. Terry

heard of Nobles county and decided to try his fortunes in the new country. It

was in March, 1872, that he arrived in the county and purchased a homestead

relinquishment from a man in Spirit Lake to the southeast quarter of section 20,

Worthington township. There he builded him a home and there he has resided ever

since, a continuous residence of over thirty-six years. He and family suffered

from the grasshopper scourge, the severe winters, the prairie fires and other

hardships incident to pioneer life.



  On April 4, 1874, at Henrietta, N. Y., Mr. Terry was united in marriage to

Miss Emma Davis, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Mary (Bell) Davis, both

natives of Vermont, but residents of Greece, N. Y., at the time of the birth of

Mrs. Terry. To Mr. and Mrs. Terry have been born the following named children:

Mary Abby (Mrs. Clyde Ager), Worthington; Edna and Willmar, who reside at home.



  In the early days Mr. Terry served two years as a member of the board of

supervisors. He was a member of the school board of district No. 48 for eight or

ten years.



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AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF NOBLES COUNTY

MINNESOTA

BY

ARTHUR P. ROSE



NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY 

WORTHINGTON, MINNESOTA 

PUBLISHERS

1908

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