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Below is a family biography included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1890.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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W. H. Terry, banker, Prescott, is a native of Iuka Springs, Tishomingo County, Miss., born November 23, 1859, a son of J. C. and Martha (Hart) Terry, the former a native of Mississippi, and the latter of Virginia, and both now residing in Columbus, Miss., where Mr. Terry has been engaged in merchandising all his life. The subject of this sketch was reared and schooled in Mississippi and Tennessee, receiving his education at the common schools of those States, and after completing his education, was for eight years in the employ of Allen, West & Co., commission merchants of St. Louis. In 1885 he came to Prescott and engaged in merchandising, continuing in this business for about a year, and then entering the banking business, which he has carried on ever since. The Nevada County Bank was organized in October, 1886, Messrs. Terry & Young, proprietors. It ran under this name for two years, and then Mr. Terry bought his partner’s interest, and has continued alone ever since, doing a general banking business with a capital of about $20,000, and has been quite successful. He was married in St. Louis, in 1883, to Miss Clara Wisdom, daughter P. L. Wisdom. Both he and wife are members of the Baptist Church.

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This family biography is one of 96 biographies included in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Nevada County, Arkansas published in 1890.  For the complete description, click here: Nevada County, Arkansas History, Genealogy, and Maps

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