. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. George W. Terry was born in the town of Pulteney, this county, Sept. 24, 1824. His father, Eemus Terry, was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y.; was married to Temperance Sherwood, a native of Orange County. Her parents were natives of and resided many years on Long Island. In 1816 his father settled in the town of Pulteney, and in 1828 removed to the town of Italy, Yates Co., where the family remain
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. George W. Terry was born in the town of Pulteney, this county, Sept. 24, 1824. His father, Eemus Terry, was a native of Dutchess Co., N. Y.; was married to Temperance Sherwood, a native of Orange County. Her parents were natives of and resided many years on Long Island. In 1816 his father settled in the town of Pulteney, and in 1828 removed to the town of Italy, Yates Co., where the family remained for four years, and the father re- moved to the State of Indiana, where he died, in 1875, at the age of seventy-eight. His mother for many years resided with and was cared for by her son^ and died at his residence in Hornellsville, May, 1876, aged seventy- six. His maternal grandfather, James Sherwood, was a soldier of the war for independence, and also of the war of 1812; having entered the war of 1776 at the age of fourteen to take the place of his father, and with his brother who was killed. Mr. Terry had a brother Remus and a sister Louisa. At the age of four years he went to live with his Grand- father Sherwood in Pulteney, where he remained until the age of fourteen, when he went into the busy world for himself, and unassisted, pecuniarily, during the re- mainder of his minority laid the foundation for a suc- cessful business career. From that age until he was twenty he followed the business of a butcher and dealer in stock. In 1844 he married Henrietta Trenchard, of the town of Wheeler, who was born August, 1823. For nine years he was a farmer in the towns of Prattsburgh and Wheeler. In 1853 he removed to Hornellsville, where he purchased altogether some six hundred acres of land adjoining the village, thirty acres of which now forms a part of the village of Hornellsville, lying on both the east and west side of the Canisteo River. Mr. Terry has spent the most of his
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