SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: Judge David Henry of Perry Township (1883) ************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ ************************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitter: Tina Hursh Email: ribbit@clubnet.isl.net Date: 14 July 2002 *********************************************************************** From the The Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html a part of The U.S. Biographies Project http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/usbios/usbiog.html Transcribed by Marcella Messer. --------------- History of Shelby County Sutton 1883 Perry Township p. 218 Judge David Henry This early pioneer and settler of Shelby County was born in Pennsylvania in 1770. The first place we know of him living was in Kentucky; his next place of residence was in Champaign County, Ohio. February , 1814, he moved to Perry Township, then in Miami County, where he entered one hundred and sixty acres of land in section 28. He was the first white settler in Perry Township. At the time of his location there was not a settler within three miles of him. In the spring of 1817 he was elected clerk of his township, and acted as such for a number of years. In the fall of the same year (1817) he was elected justice of the peace, and received his commission from Thomas Worthington, then Governor of Ohio. He was re-elected to the same office in 1821, 1824, 1826, 1829, and 1832. Also was the first commissioner’s clerk of the county, which position he filled from the organization of the county until the fall of 1820, when he was elected commissioner of the county, but resigned the same in the fall of 1821. He was appointed by the court as director for the survey and sale of lots of the town of Sidney. In the year 1826, he received a commission from Governor Jeremiah Morrow as Associate Judge for the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County. To his papers, which have been kept on file, and preserved by his daughter, Mrs. Ried, we are indebted for much of our information in regard to the county as well as Perry Township. Judge Henry was one of the most prominent and leading citizens at the organization of the county, and filled some official postion in both county and township from their organization to the time of his death, which occured on March 29, 1834. He raised a family of ten children, only two of whom now are living in the county, viz., David Henry Jr., and Mrs. Wm. R. Ried, both of Perry Township. David Henry , Jr. was born February 17, 1815. He and a sister who were twins are said to be the first births in what is now Perry Township. David Henry is now the oldest settler in the townhsip, having had his home in the township for over sixty seven years. He has seen the woods of Perry become a fine, fertile, and well-improved portion of the county.