My Genealogy Hound

Henry Fry, a well known farmer and stock raiser of Sumner County, residing in the Fourth District, is a son of Abraham and Isabella (Kingland) Fry, and was born in Pennsylvania in 1822, being the fifth of eleven children—nine still living. The father was of Dutch descent, born in Pennsylvania in 1795, and died in 1867. He spent his entire life in that State engaged in farming, and was married when about twenty years old. The mother was born in same State three years later than her husband, and died in 1882. Our subject was raised and educated at home. In 1845 he married Miss Margaret, daughter of Isaac and Martha Fry, of Rush County, Ind., and by this marriage had eleven children, six sons and four daughters living: John (of Gallatin), William Henry (of Bedford County), Isaac, Henan, Abraham, Albert, Sarah Ann (deceased), Clarinda (wife of Prady Mitchell), Martha (wife of Henry Furmer, of Pennsylvania), Elizabeth (wife of James Evans, of Gallatin, Tenn.), and Belle. He first located in Washington County, Penn., and farmed there until 1852, and when the excitement about finding gold in California was so great, he went out there, and spent two years mining, meeting with some success; then returned to his family, and in 1870 moved to Sumner County, purchasing a farm of 370 acres, with a handsome residence on it, seven miles southwest of Gallatin. Mr. Fry has acquired a large part of his property through his own efforts, being industrious and a good manager. He introduced into his county the rearing of thoroughbred Clydesdale horses in connection with his farming. Mr. Fry was formerly a Whig, and cast his first presidential vote in 1840 for W. H. Harrison, and since the war he has been a Republican, and stands well in his community.