Hancock-Warren County OhArchives Biographies.....Cory, D. J. 1801 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   D. J. CORY, farmer, stock dealer and ex-judge, Findlay, was born in Warren
County (then in the Norwestern Territory) April 17, 1801, nine months before the
State of Ohio was organized, son of Elnathan and Hannah (Jennings) Cory. His
father, of Knickerbocker stock, born in Essex County, N. J., immigrated to Ohio
about 1795, and settled in Columbia, which now forms a part of the city of
Cincinnati. The country was new and sparsely settled, and he had to endure all
the privations incident to pioneer life. Not being satisfied with his prospects
in Columbia, he removed to what is now known as Warren County, and established a
nursery. He was one of the earliest nurserymen in the State; the well-known
apple entitled the "Cory Red," originated in his orchard. Ex-Gov. Vance and
Elnathan Cory laid out the town of Findlay in 1827, and limit a mill-dam at
Blanchard's Fork of the Auglaize River, which were the first important
improvements in the county. The mother of Judge Cory, Hannah (Jennings),
descended from English ancestry, was born in Virginia, but immigrated, with her
family, to Ohio about 1800, and settled near Cincinnati. Her father, David
Jennings, was shot and mortally wounded by the Indians as he was returning home
from the mill. Our subject attended a log-cabin school in his boyhood, and early
worked on his father's farm. When he arrived at eighteen years of age he removed
to Dayton, Ohio, where he had some further educational advantages, and, although
engaged in the store of Steel & Price, he attended school for eighteen months.
Returning home, he engaged in the farming and milling business, the saw and
grist mill, which had machinery for wool-carding, being the property of his
father. At the expiration of four years he relinquished the business and settled
on a farm near Springfield, at a place now called Enon, and there commenced
raising stock as well as engaging in agricultural operations. Thence he went to
Williams (now Henry) County, about eight miles below Napoleon, and was there
engaged in fanning and stock raising for nearly fifteen years. In February,
1835, he was appointed by Gov. Lucas an associate judge of Henry County, which
office he held for several years. Being a member of the Whig party, which was
defeated at the polls by the Democrats, his career as a judge closed. For twenty
years he was director and stockholder in the Fremont & Indiana (now the Lake
Erie & Louisville) Railroad, and devoted his best energies to promoting its
success. April 17, 1827, he was married to Miss Martha Meek, who died February
26, 1868, without leaving any issue. This marriage took place near New Carlisle,
Clark Co., Ohio. On September 7, 1869, he was married to Miss Anna W. Wright, of
Urbana, by birth a Virginian. Her father, Reed Wright, had an intuitive hatred
of slavery, which was the cause of his leaving Virginia, as he desired to rear
and educate his children in a free State, and his wife, the mother of the second
Mrs. Cory, had inherited slaves, which she, however, manumitted, or otherwise
liberated, in accordance with the laws of Virginia. November 2, 1848, Judge Cory
removed to Findlay, where he had built a family residence, still managing his
business of farming and stock raising, being the owner of considerable sections
of land in Wyandot, Marion and other counties. He has always occupied a high and
honorable position as a public-spirited and philanthropic citizen, and has taken
a great interest in the temperance and religious work of Findlay, giving to both
his sympathy and financial support. He is in earnest accord with the Methodist
Church; and has the esteem and respect of the community of which he is so worthy
a member. In politics he is a Republican, strongly attached to the principles of
our country, and down on ballot-box stuffing.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Findlay Township and Village




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