I'll try this again, the other time it bounced! -----Original Message----- From: Diana Flynn <[email protected]> To: Gentry <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, August 30, 1998 5:11 PM Subject: BIO: Gentry, Harrison - Morgan Co., IN. >Found this while typing bios for the Indiana Biography page >(http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/indybios/indiana1.htm) and thought >I'd pass it along. > >Diana > >************************************************************************** * >**** >GENTRY LUDLOW HUBBLE > >Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. >Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. > >MORGAN COUNTY >ADAMS TOWNSHIP >PAGE 302 >HARRISON GENTRY, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in Adams Township, >Morgan County, Ind., September 28, 1846, and is the fourth in a family of >ten child- >ren born to Barry M. and Elizabeth J. (Ludlow) Gentry, both of whom were >born >near Lexington, Ky., and were of English and German descest respectively. >When but five or six years old, in about 1825, Barry M. Gentry came with >his >parents to what is now Hendricks County, Ind., then a part of Morgan >County. >Here his father entered 160 acres of land, and improved a farm, upon which >young Barry passed his early life. He received such an education as could >be >obtained at the subscription schools of that frontier settlement. He was >married >at the age of eighteen, and soon after commenced for himself, and farmed on >shares for several years. In about 1850, he came to Adams Township, Morgan >County, Ind., where he bought eighty acres of wild land, and to which he >has >added, now owning a well-improved farm of some 230 acres. In June, 1872, >he removed to Stilesville, Hendricks County, Ind., where he has since >engaged >in the dry goods trade. He was one of the Commissioners of Morgan County >for some sixteen years, and has held various township offices. Mr. G. and >wife are members of the Chritian Church. He cast his first vote for >William >H. Harrison, but, since 1856, has been identified with the Republican >party. >Harrison Gentry, the subject, received a fair common school education, >was employed on the old homestead until he was twenty-one years old. >He then farmed on shares for some ten years, after which he bought a farm >of sixty acres in Adams Township, Morgan County, upon which he still >resides. The farm is well improved. He was married, November 10, 1870, >to Miss Eliza J. Hubble, a native of Hendricks County, Ind. Two children, >one son and one daughter, have blessed their union--Clara M. and Conrad. >In politics, Mr. Gentry is a stanch Republican. > >