George Parry
Dr. GEORGE W. PARRY, Biography / Henry County, OH

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File contributed for use by Ohio Biographies Project
by Janet Wilkinson Schwartz (wilkinschw@aol.com)
January 2003
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History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio. Lewis Cass Aldrich, ed. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1888.

PARRY, Dr. GEORGE W., Flat Rock, Florida p.o., physician and surgeon, and one of the extensive farmers, and blooded stock growers of the county, was born in Florida, Henry county, February 22, 1851, and was a son of Dr. GIBBONS and DEBORAH B. (WAY) PARRY, of Chester county, Pa., who settled in Defiance county, O., in 1840, and in Henry county in 1850, in the practice of his profession. He became an extensive farmer and blooded stock grower, and one of the prominent men of the county. His wife died April 29, 1871. They had a family of sixteen children, only one is now living, Dr. GEORGE W. GEORGE W. was married in 1881, to FLORA E. HALTER. They have two children, CARL E. and JAMES W. Dr. G.W. was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1875. He retired from practice in 1884 and settled o his farm of 385 acres, and now devotes his time and attention to this enterprise.