PORTAGE COUNTY OHIO - BIO:  Ferrey, Aaron (1885)

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Bios:  Ferrey, Hart, King, Lanphere - Portage County, Ohio, from "History of
Portage County, Ohio" published by Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885

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AARON FERREY, farmer, P.O. Kent, was born in Belchertown, Mass., July 6,
1808, a son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Gilbert) Ferrey, who settled in Franklin
township, this county, in 1831.  His father located on the farm now owned by
Harley Judson, most of which he improved, and here he resided up to 1850,
when he removed to what is now Kent and there lived until his death.  By his
first wife, Elizabeth Gilbert, of Belchertown, Mass., Aaron Ferrey, Sr., had
eleven children:  Eliza (deceased), Aaron, Moses (deceased), Mary
(deceased), George (deceased), John (deceased), Ann (wife of George
Williams, in Wisconsin), William, Charles (in Indiana), Emeline (deceased)
and Frank.  His second wife was Mrs. Mary McPherson, nee Dickinson, by whom
he had two children:  Eliza, wife of Henry Swan, and Byron.  Aaron Ferrey,
Sr., died in 1860, at the age of seventy-eight years.  Our subject was
reared in Amherst, Mass., until ten years of age, when his parents removed
to Virginia, there they remained five years and then returned to Amherst,
and where his father engaged in the manufacture of brick, our subject
assisting him until twenty-one years of age, when he embarked in the same
business for himself, which he continued for several years in different
sections of New England.  On May 9, 1837, he was married to Judith, daughter
of George and Judith (Hastings) Nutting, of Amherst, Mass., by whom he has
had eight children:  George W., Charles E. (deceased), Mary E. (deceased),
Frank H., Julia A., Fred A., Will D., and John H.  In 1842 Mr. Ferrey came
to Portage County and engaged in the manufacture of brick in Franklin,
furnishing the material for the large building now known as Kent worsted
Mills.  In 1846 he removed to Franklin Mills (now Kent), where he resided
for twenty years, doing an extensive business, and in 1866 he located in
Brimfield, on the farm where he now resides, and in connection with farming,
carried on a brick-yard up to 1880, when his sons took charge of that
department.  Mr. and Mrs. Ferrey and daughters are members of the
Congregational Church.  In politics he is a Republican.