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 life as a farmer; 

 but during the last six years, besides his farming and 

 real estate interests, has carried on milling and lumber 

 business. He is ranked among the thrifty, enterprising 

 men of Steuben County, possessed of a business ability 

 often found among men who carve out their own 

 fortune. 



He has been somewhat actively identified with the 

 Democratic party, and for three years was one of the 

 assessors of the town. His wife died in 1870, leaving 

 four children, — George, in business with his father, Mrs. 

 Albert E. Hicks, Delia, and Jessie. 



For his second wife he married Mrs. Lucinda Tren- 

 chard, daughter of James I. Maxfield, of Wheeler. She 

 was born in 1838. Their children are Henry and Cora. 



