Clay County, SD Biographies.....Ferrry, Henry L. September 6, 1838 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

HENRY L. FERRY, a representative American farmer and citizen of Fairview township,
Clay county, was born in Burlington, Iowa, September 6, 1838. His father, Silas
Ferry, was born in Luzerne county, Pa., and his mother, Flavia French, was a native
of Massachusetts. After their marriage they settled in Cattaraugus county, N. Y.,
where he was engaged in lumbering at Olean Point until 1837, at which time he built
a flat boat and with his family floated down the Allegheny river to Pittsburg,
thence down the Ohio to Cairo, Ill., and from the latter point embarked on a steamer
for Burlington, Iowa, arriving there in March, 1838. Mrs. Ferry died in Burlington
in 1850, and six years later Mr. Ferry removed to Muscatine county of the same
state, where, during the war, on account of some differences in political opinion,
he was shot, and in consequence of the wounds thus received he died in 1862. He was
the father of thirteen children, only six of whom grew to maturity.

Henry L. Ferry was the third child in order of birth. He made his home with his
parents until his mother died and then stayed with his father until he was married,
which event occurred in Cedar township, Muscatine county, March 27, 1861. Miss Mary
Jane Reyburn being the bride, Shortly after the first gun of the great Civil war was
fired, and September 9, 1861, our subject was enrolled as a member of company I,
Eleventh Iowa regiment, infantry. He served nearly four years, a brave and
courageous soldier, and took part with his regiment in the battle of Shiloh, both
the siege and battle of Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg, the battle of Kennesaw
mountain, the siege of Atlanta, on the campaign through the Carolinas, and was
present at the grand review of the troops at Washington. He was also a participant
in Sherman's famous “March to the Sea.”

After receiving an honorable discharge at Davenport, Iowa, Mr. Ferry returned to his
wife in Muscatine county, and there continued to live, engaging in farming, until
the fall of 1867, at which time he came to Clay county, Dak. Ter., and took up a
claim in section 12, of Fairview township. This property has since been his place of
residence with the exception of four years, from 1873 to ‘77, which were spent in
his old home in Muscatine county, Iowa. He has always followed agricultural
pursuits, and is now the fortunate possessor of a fine farm of 320 broad and fertile
acres.

Mrs. Ferry, the estimable lady who presides over the household affairs of our
subject, was born in Armstrong county, Pa., March 22, 1835. Her father and mother,
Callin and Mary (Callin) Reyburn, were natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia
respectively. After their marriage they settled in Armstrong county, Pa., afterward
removed to Richland county, Ohio, and from there came to Muscatine county, Iowa. Of
the ten children born to them, Mrs. Ferry was the fifth. Mr. Ferry and his wife are
the parents of seven children, viz.: Henrietta, the wife of Emmett Chapman; Cora M.,
now Mrs. M. B. Hampton; Arthur V., Callin R., Orrin S., Lucius F., and Philip H.

Mr. Ferry has held various of the township offices and has also been a member of the
board of county commissioners. Politically he is a Populist, and during the grange
movement he organized some twenty different clubs in Union, Clay, Yankton and
Minnehaha counties. Socially he holds membership in Miner post No. 8, Grand Army of
the Republic, and religiously belongs to the United Brethren church, his wife also
being a member of this denomination. They are both active workers in the Master’s
vineyard.


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