Bio of Terrell, Henry K. (b.1808) Wabasha Co., MN
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Terrell, Henry K., auctioneer, Lake City, is a native of Virginia, born in
Waynesborough, Augusta county, October 30, 1808. Henry Childs and
Philadelphia (Smith) Terrell, his parents, were natives of the same state.
Our subject received a fair common-school education, and worked during the
busy season from ten years of age in a flourmill. In 1841 he went to
Burlington, Iowa, and was employed some years in a large mill there. He
went in 1850 to California, where he spent a successful year, and then
went to St. Paul. Here he rented and operated a mill one year, and then
engaged in real estate speculation with satisfactory results. He came to
Lake City in the spring of 1857, and in partnership with Doughty, Baldwin
& Phelps, bought fifteen thousand dollars' worth of real estate, which
they cut up into town lots. The railroad depot now stands on a part of
this track. Soon after, Mr. Terrell bought out his partners, and disposed
of the property alone. In January, 1858, he was sent as a delegate to
Washington, by an association of farmers and business men, to secure a
delay of the sale of the Half-Breed tract. His mission was successful, and
hundreds of settlers who would otherwise have lost their lands were
permitted to pre-empt them. In 1860 Mr. Terrell bought the Mazeppa mills,
which he operated for two years and then sold. For many years he has been
employed as an auctioneer. November 11, 1828, he married Jane F. Cameron,
a native of the same county as himself. Seven children were given them, of
whom three are now living. The eldest, Henry C., was always employed as a
steamboat clerk, and died on the Mississippi, leaving seven children. The
living are Sarah P. (Mrs. Lorenzo Hoyt, St. Paul); Susan C. (widow of
Henry E. Baker, here); Robert L., with parents.