chapter BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
terry, H. A., was born in Cortland County, New York, July 12, 1826. When he was ten years of age he went with his parents to Michigan and seven years later to Illinois. He spent his young manhood there and in states on west. He combined the sale of small fruit and nursery stock with the seed business and in 1855 established a nursery at Crescent, Iowa, specializing in oeonies. "Father Terry," as he was called during the latter part of his life, was for many years the only seed merchant in the Missouri River Territory. He died February 14, 1909, at the age of eighty-three.
Terry, H. A., Crescent, Iowa, 1826-1909. Established nursery in 1855. Breeder.
In 1856 H. A. Terry of Crescent, Iowa, obtained about thirty varieties of peonies from Prince. These included Humei, Pottsi, Fragrans, Festiva Maxima, Edulis Superba, etc. Mr. Terry saved seeds from these and had thousands of seedlings, many of which he later named.
