Terry, George

TERRY, WHITTAKER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/1/2013 at 12:11:52

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

TERRY, GEORGE—Grinnell Twp—pg 930. Was born on the first day of October, 1880, and is a native of Coggeshall, county of Essex, England. He attended the Felsted Grammar School, and graduated therefrom in the summer of 1849. On the fifteenth of November, 1849, he emigrated to the United States. Enlisted in the Seventh Missouri volunteer infantry, in April, 1861, took part in the second battle of Corinth, October 2, 3 and 4, 1862, and continued in government employ until November, 1870. March 22, 1871, he commenced with Craver & Steele, was book-keeper in the lumber yards until December, 1877, and from that time until this has been employed in the header factory. Mr. Terry was married, in the city of Saint Louis, on the seventeenth of September, 1865, to Miss Elizabeth R. Whittaker, a native of Todmorden, Lancashire, England. Their family consists of three boys and three girls.