George A. Furry
George A. Furry, grocer, Kent, was born in Brimfield Township, this county, December 16, 1838, son of William and Martha L. (Russell) Furry. His paternal grandfather was John Furry, a native of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. , who settled in Brimtield Township, this county, in 1816, where he lived and died, and whose wife was Julia A. Harris, a native of Philadelphia, by whom he had eight children: Joseph (deceased), William (deceased), Mooney (deceased), Ann (Mrs. Edward Russell), Henry T., Lucy J. (deceased), Mary J. (Mrs. George Ogle), and an infant son (deceased). The maternal grandfather of our subject was Edward Russell, an early settler of BrimfieId Township, this county. The children of William Furry were George A., Helen E. (Mrs. David Tucker, of Kent), Lucy (Mrs. Theodore Campbell, of Kent), and Wallace W., of Cleveland. Our subject, after he became of age, farmed until April, 1861, when he enlisted in Company G, Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was in the battles of Cross Lane, Winchester, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cedar Mountain, Lookout Mountain, Ringgold, Resaca, Peach Tree Creek, and many other engagements, and was honorably discharged June 9, 1864. In that year he went to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he attended the Eastman Business College for six months, thence went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he served as Clerk in the distributing department in the postoffice in that city; then returned to this county and served as Clerk in Streetsboro. In 1873 he embarked in the grocery business in Kent, with George L. Stauffer, Esq., in which he has since been successully engaged. He was married, May 19, 1876, to Lucy, daughter of James and Maria (Hopkins) Woodard, of Kent, by whom he has one child —Mattie M. Mr. Furry is a member of the Masonic fraternity, the G. A. R., and R. A. In politics he is a stanch Republican.
From History of Portage County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., Chicago, 1885