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John Prentice Terry
b.1862-09-30; d.1935-02-01; Brooklyn, NY, US; Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, 1934-1935 (p.147)
(contributed by Scott Prentice on 2013-10-16)
Born September 30, 1862, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Died February 1, 1935, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Father, Edmund Terry (B.A. 1837). Mother, Anne (Prentice) Terry. Yale relatives include: Rev. John Taylor (B.A. 1784) (great-grandfather); Henry W. Taylor (B.A. 1816) (great-uncle); Roderick Terry (ex-1840) (uncle); Henry T. Terry, '69, Rev. Roderick Terry, '70, John T. Terry, '79, Charles P. Kellogg, ex-'97 Prentice Strong, '01, and Theron R. Strong, '03 (cousins); and Wyllys Terry, Jr., '31 (nephew).
Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. Spent three years with Class of 1883; transferred to Class of 1884 S. as a Junior. Dynamic engineering course; member Hare and Hounds.
Assayer for Cusihuiriachic Mining Company, Mexico; with Holbrook & Fancer, assayers in El Paso, Texas; chemist for St. Louis Smelting & Refining Company, assistant superintendent Coralitis Company, Mexico; assayer and chemist with Chihuahua Mining Company, Mexico, Montana Ore Purchasing Company, and Anaconda Copper Mining Company; in assay business in Butte, Mont.; superintendent Obed River Coal & Improvement Company, Wartburg, Tenn.; engaged in silver mining near Prescott, Ariz., for some years before his death; member Yale Engineering Association and Presbyterian Church.
Unmarried.
Death due to septic pneumonia. Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Survived by a sister, Miss Marion J. Terry, of Brooklyn, and three brothers, Wyllys Terry, '85, George D. Terry, '92, and James T. Terry, of New York City. His brothers, Edmund R. Terry, '78, and Rev. Eliphalet B. Terry, '88, died in 1932 and 1922, respectively.
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