William B. Fry
The Frys are of German extraction, but when they came to the United States we cannot learn. The first of whom we can learn anything is in the person of Christopher Fry, who was born in Kentucky in 1786. When a young man he came to Chillicothe, Ohio. It was here, in 1811, that he married Jane Robinson. From this union there were seven children. In 1835 Mr. Fry brought his family to the town of Sidney, where he engaged in merchandising, which he followed until about the time of his death, which occurred in 1846. His wife died in 1870, at the age of eighty-eight years.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883