NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11439 HARRISON CO – PERRY A. CURRY – Curry, Duval, Biggs 11439 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p.966 Harrison Co KY. Perry A. Curry, surveyor, farmer, and stock-raiser, post-office Madisonville, Ralls county. Among the enterprising citizens who have been instrumental in the advancement of public interests there are none more worthy of notice than the subject of this sketch. He was born in Harrison county, Kentucky, September 29, 1819, and was the son of John and Nancy Curry. He was there reared and educated, living with his parents until he reached the age of manhood. His youth was spent in assisting in the management of the farm and attending the subscription school, and in hard study during his leisure hours. He came to Pike county in the fall of 1840 with limited means, nearly all of his capital consisting of strong arms and a willing heart. By hard study under very unfavorable circumstances he had in his younger days acquired a very superior education, and on arriving in this, then a comparatively new country his great ambition was to impart his hard earned knowledge to others, and the first eight years after arriving here was spent in teaching school. He was married in November, 1877, to Mrs. Susan Duval, whose maiden name was Biggs, a daughter of Hon. William Biggs, one of the pioneers of Pike county. In 1848 our subject was elected to the office of county surveyor, which office he held for two years, when he resigned. In 1850 he went to California, where he met with good success in mining for one and one half years. He then returned to the home of his adoption and purchased a farm on Sugar Creek, where he lived until 1854, when he sold out, and entered 320 acres of unimproved land in Spencer township, and on this tract the enterprising village of Curryville now stands. In 1852 he was again elected to the office of county surveyor, which he has filled with honor to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents for more than twenty years. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx