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JOHN FERRY, farmer, P.O. Wilson’s Mills, was born in Wayne Township, this county, March 25, 1838, and is the second son of Edward and Jane (Hendershot) Ferry, of Wayne Township, this county. He was reared on a farm, obtained a common school education, and entered upon his career in life as a farmer, which occupation he has always followed, with the exception of two years spent in the oil regions, where he worked on the first well sunk. He was married July 5, 1864, to Mary Lepley, a native of this county, who has borne him three children: Helen, Annie and Nancy. Mr. Ferry, about 1868, purchased his present farm, which consists of eighty acres. He is an active member of the Grange, at Cochranton. Politically he is identified with the Democratic party.
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