Biography of Rev. H. W. Cherry, page 1028.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Rev. H. W. Cherry was born in Erie County, N.Y., July 16, 1828.  His father, 
Rev. Henry Cherry, was a native of Canada, and in 1841 brought his family to 
De Kalb County and settled on a farm in Wilmington Township, a mile south of 
Butler.  He was a minister of the Free-Will Baptist church, but the latter 
years of his life had no regular appointment. Our subject was reared on a 
farm, but received a good education, and in 1854 entered the ministry of the 
United Brethren church.  He was engaged in the regular work about twenty-
five years; two years of the time was in Steuben County, two years in 
Hampdon County, Mass., and sixteen years in Wauseon, Ohio. In May, 1882, his 
health failing, he retired from the regular work and located in Butler.  In 
1883 he received a injury in his hip, from the effects of which he will 
probably never recover.  He is a liberal supporter of his church and all its 
interests, and has given his farm near Butler, valued at $6,000, to endow 
the Greek chair in the Union Biblical Seminary at Dayton, Ohio, reserving 
the income for his use till his death.  Mr. Cherry was married in March, 
1851, to Louisa French, a native of New York State.  Their only child is 
deceased.

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