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HENRY CLAY FRY is a skillful practical farmer and a prominent stock-raiser in Wheatfield Township. He was born in Shelby County, Ky., October 11, 1844, and is a son of A. J. and Emily (Early) Fry, natives of Kentucky. His father came to Illinois in 1860, and bought a farm in Wheatfield Township. He was actively engaged in agriculture here until 1875, when he removed to Missouri where he still resides. Though he is nearly eighty years old he is still hale and active. The mother of our subject died in 1854 when he was a boy of ten years.

Our subject is one of triplets, the other two being Robert I. and Jacob W. He began life on his own account in Sangamon County, but subsequently went to Nebraska where he remained twenty years. At the expiration of that time he returned to the old homestead.

Mr. Fry took unto himself a wife in 1886 in the person of Mrs. Janette Fortune, widow of George Fortune, and they now make their home on the Fortune farm. This is a well-improved place and under our subject's management its carefully tilled fields yield abundant harvests and afford sustenance to many cattle and other stock, as he is very profitably engaged in stock-raising. He is a man of domestic tastes and is fond of his home, where under his wife's notable housekeeping he enjoys every comfort. He is well thought of in this community, and is known as a straightfoward, upright man who attends quietly to his own business, and is always kindly in his relations with his neighbors. He is sound in politics, and gives his allegiance to the Republican party.