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JOHN CURRY, farmer, post office Stoops, was born at Middletown, Fayette county, Pa., Aug. 29, 1811, a son of John and Elizabeth (Adams) Curry, former of whom was born in Ireland, was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, and was nine years of age when he came to America. The family settled in Chester county, Pa. After he grew up John Curry, Sr., went to Pittsburgh and worked as a foreman in a rolling-mill. He afterward moved to Moon township and purchased the farm now owned by his son. He died at the age of fifty-two years, his wife at the age of ninety. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and the mother of six children, three of whom lived to be men and women: Sarah, who married Andrew McKindley; John, and William, who married Mary McCormick. John Curry, whose name heads this sketch, was two years old when his parents came to Pittsburgh, and fifteen when they moved to Moon township. He was united in marriage Dec. 27, 1836, with Anna Onstott, and they have had six children, four living: Elizabeth, wife of James McCormick, farmer in Moon township; Mary A., widow of John Nickel, and residing near Mansfield, this county; Rachel O., who married George M. Ferree and resides at Coraopolis, and Jennie M., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Curry are members of the Presbyterian Church at Sharon. They celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding Dec. 27, 1886.