Biography of Charles Terry
FROM OUR COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE
A DESCRIPTIVE AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
OF SARATOGA COUNTY, NEW YORK
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE
AUSPICES OF THE SARATOGIAN
THE BOSTON HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1899
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Terry, Charles, was born in Mechanicville, December 4, 1843, a son of Thomas and Sarah Ann (Adams) Terry. After
his school days Mr. Terry was employed as a clerk in Troy for three years; he then learned the milling trade and
spent fourteen years in that business at Valley Falls, then moved to Schaghticoke where he was three years. In
1883 he came to Saratoga Springs and has been twenty-one years an agent of the Fitchburg Railroad, three years
at Valley Falls, three years at Schaghticoke and fifteen in Saratoga. Mr. Terry married Jennie M. Medbury of Lyons,
N. Y. His daughter, Ola, by a previous marriage, is the wife of Kenneth McClellan of Albany. Mr. Terry is a prominent
Mason, having risen to a Knight Templar, and was a justice of the peace for seven years in Valley Falls.
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