Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884. 

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 302

HARRISON GENTRY, farmer and stock-dealer, was born in Adams Township,
Morgan County, Ind., September 28, 1846, and is the fourth in a family of ten child-
ren born to Barry M. and Elizabeth J. (Ludlow) Gentry, both of whom were born
near Lexington, Ky., and were of English and German descest respectively.
When but five or six years old, in about 1825, Barry M. Gentry came with his
parents to what is now Hendricks County, Ind., then a part of Morgan County.
Here his father entered 160 acres of land, and improved a farm, upon which
young Barry passed his early life.  He received such an education as could be
obtained at the subscription schools of that frontier settlement.  He was married
at the age of eighteen, and soon after commenced for himself, and farmed on
shares for several years.  In about 1850, he came to Adams Township, Morgan
County, Ind., where he bought eighty acres of wild land, and to which he has
added, now owning a well-improved farm of some 230 acres.  In June, 1872, 
he removed to Stilesville, Hendricks County, Ind., where he has since engaged
in the dry goods trade.  He was one of the Commissioners of Morgan County
for some sixteen years, and has held various township offices.  Mr. G. and 
wife are members of the Chritian Church.  He cast his first vote for William
H. Harrison, but, since 1856, has been identified with the Republican party.
Harrison Gentry, the subject, received a fair common school education,
was employed on the old homestead until he was twenty-one years old.
He then farmed on shares for some ten years, after which he bought a farm
of sixty acres in Adams Township, Morgan County, upon which he still
resides.  The farm is well improved.  He was married, November 10, 1870,
to Miss Eliza J. Hubble, a native of Hendricks County, Ind.  Two children,
one son and one daughter, have blessed their union--Clara M. and Conrad.
In politics, Mr. Gentry is a stanch Republican.


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