Westmoreland County PA Archives Biographies.....Fry, John October 24, 1835

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JOHN FRY, a crippled veteran of the late war and census enumerator of Mt.
Pleasant township for the eleventh census of the United States, is a son of
Michael and Sarah (Richard) Fry and was born near St. Paul’s Reformed and
Lutheran church in Mt. Pleasant township, Westmoreland county, Pa., October 24,
1835. Michael Fry, paternal grandfather, was born in Mt. Pleasant township,
where he died. He was a farmer, a member of the Reformed church, an old line
whig and afterwards a republican. His wife was Regina Speelman, who was a native
of Westmoreland county. Charles Richard, maternal great-grandfather, was a fifer
in the Revolutionary war and lived to be nearly one hundred years old. He was a
native of Westmoreland county, in which he died. He followed farming in Mt.
Pleasant township where he was a member of the Reformed church. George Richard,
maternal grandfather, was born in Cumberland county and removed to Westmoreland
county. He was engaged in farming in Unity township. Michael Fry (father) was
born in 1800 and died December 23, 1S56, aged fifty-six years. He was a whig and
afterwards a republican and a strict member of the Reformed church. He was a
very industrious and prosperous farmer and a conscientious and upright man. lie
married Sarah Richard. They had seven children: Elizabeth, who married John W.
Armel and is now dead; Michael (deceased), George, who married a Speelman and
after her death united in marriage with Susan Shearer; John, Mary, wife of John
Hoffer, of Madison, Pa.; Sarah, married William Armel, of Davenport, Iowa, and
Leah, who married John Fisher and is now dead.

    John Fry was educated in the common schools and has always followed farming.
He owns a well-improved (arm of eighty-five acres and raises considerable stock.
He enlisted September, 3, 1861, in Co. C., eleventh reg., Pa. Vols., and served
three years. He participated in several hard battles. At second Bull Run he was
knocked down by a spent ball, at Antietam be was wounded in the hand and at
Gettysburg be was shot in the leg and captured and held as a prisoner for a few
days by the Confederates. In politics Mr. Fry is a republican, has always been
active in his support of that party and has just received the appointment of
census enumerator of Mt. Pleasant township. He is a member and trustee of St.
Paul's Reformed church.

   January 14, 1868, he married Melinda J. Smith, a daughter of Ephraim Smith,
of Unity township, who married Susan Bates and reared a family of fourteen
children, of whom one son is Prof. W. N. Smith, principal of the soldier’s
orphan school at Jumonville, Pa., and another son is Hiram Smith, a lawyer of
Sycamore, Ill., while one daughter, Nettie, is attending the  State Normal
school at Lock Haven  and  will  graduate in the class of 1891. To Mr. and  Mrs.
Fry have been born three sons and fourdaughters: Sadie E., Nettie L., George S.,
Franklin R., Ferguson J., Mary J. and Nora P.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from
Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania
Compiled and Published by John M. Gresham & Co.
Samuel T. Wiley, Chief Assistant
1890


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