JOHN F. CURRY was born near Terre Haute, Ind., February 28, 1824, son
of James and Isabella (Hogg) Curry, natives of Kentucky, who came to
Indiana among the earliest settlers near Vincennes, and engaged in
farming, dying in Knox County. Our subject, at the age of fourteen
years, served as apprentice in the tailor ship of Peter Hawk, at
Carlisle, where he remained five years, when he started in business
for himself. In 1846, he quit the tailoring business, and began
clerking for J. M. Parvin at Carlisle in the dry goods, staying with
him until 1863, when he went to Illinois, remaining six years, and in
1869 returned to Carlisle. In 1872, he was elected Sheriff of Sullivan
County, and moved to Sullivan. In 1875, he went into the grocery
business, being still engaged in the same. Mr. Curry belongs to one of
the oldest families of the county. He was married, February 18, 1847,
to Miss Isabell Colshear, who bore him three children--Samuel and
James (deceased), and Laura, wife of Thomas W. Anderson, who resides
at Fort Worth, Texas. Mrs. Curry died May 28, 1851, and October 8,
1853, Mr. Curry was married to Mary McClanahan, a daughter of John and
Elizabeth (McCrary) McClanahan, natives of Kentucky, and to this union
were born two children--Hosea Coleman, and John Rush (deceased). He
and family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and he is an Odd
Fellow, Sullivan Lodge, No. 147. Politically, Mr. Curry is a
Republican, and is the only Sheriff elected by that party.

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE
EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC."

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO.,
PUBLISHERS. 1884.SULLIVAN CO., IN
HAMILTON TWP.
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