Terry, H. A.

TERRY

Posted By: S. Ferrall (email)
Date: 10/25/2006 at 05:34:07

Terry, H.A., was born in Cortland County, New York, July 12, 1826. When he was ten years of age he went with his parents to Michigan and seven years later to Illinois. He spent his young manhood there and in states on west. He combined the sale of small fruit and nursery stock with the seed business and in 1855 established a nursery at Crescent, Iowa, specializing in peonies. "Father Terry," as he was called during the latter part of his life, was for many years the only seed merchant in the Missouri River Territory. He died February 14, 1909, at the age of eighty-three.

-Source: Peonies, The Manual of the American Peony Society, edited by James Boyd; published 1928 by the American Peony Society. Page 300