Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 404
EBENEZER TERRY, dealer and shipper of horses and mules, Muscatine, was born in Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N. Y., Dec. 17, 1837, and is a son of Ebenezer and Nancy ( Ketchum ) Terry. He was reared on his father's farm, where he developed a love of fine horses, and when but seventeen began buying and selling those useful animals, operating principally in New York. He was married, April 20, 1855, to Miss Mary M. Roberts, a native of Wells, Tioga Co., Pa., and a daughter of Edward Roberts.

In 1857 Mr. Terry came to Muscatine, where he resided until 1860, when he went to California by way of New York and the Isthmus. He spent two years in that State, engaged in freighting and dealing in horses, and at the end of that time returned to Muscatine. In the spring of 1866 he settled on a farm near Wilton, where he engaged in farming and dealing in horses. In 1875 he opened a livery stable at Wilton, where he carried on the livery business and dealing in horses until 1886, when he removed to Muscatine City. He bought and rebuilt his present extensive and commodious stables on Third street, where he does a large business in buying and shipping horses and mules, and also keeps a general feed and boarding stable, having room for the accomodation of 125 head of horses. Mr. Terry also deals in Western lands and in wagons and buggies. His horse trade has grown to important proportions, having sold in 1887, 721 horses, and the year 1888 probably exceeded that number.

Mr. and Mrs. Terry are the parents of two daughters, Georgia A., and Louisa M., the last-named being the wife of Boison Hill, of Wilton, Iowa. Mrs. Terry and daughters are members of the Presbyterian Church. Mr. Terry is a pronounced Republican in politics. The peculiar entertainment furnished the public by this gentleman and his friend, J. C. Abbott, of Wilton, in the payment of election bets on the occasions of the Presidential elections of 1884 and 1888, will long be remembered by the citizens of Muscatine County. Mr. Terry is a whole-souled, genial man, warm and true in his friendship, prompt and reliable in business matters, and is highly respected and esteemed wherever known---and who in Eastern Iowa does not know Eb. Terry?

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