Person:Lucien Ferry (1)

Lucien Stephen Peyre de Ferry

Lucien Stephen Peyre de Ferry, son of Peter Peyre Ferry, was born October 3, 1811 in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio.^S2,S3 Lucien was a lawyer and was a Probate Judge from 1837 to 1839.^S3 Lucien was elected a member in Indiana House of Representatives in 1843.^S3 Lucien married Caroline Therese Bourie on August 30, 1831 in Allen County, Indiana.^S1 Lucien died August 20, 1844 in Fort Wayne and is buried in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana. ^S2,S3 A memorial with a photo of his cemetery marker is found on Find A Grave.

[From an unknown source, but published before 1889 (when Washington Terr. became a state); copied from a post at Ancestry.]

Lucien was "in the fur trade at Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he also studied law and was admitted to practice. He was for many years prosecuting attorney of that county. He died at Fort Wayne, leaving a widow, one son and two daughters. The daughters are married and now reside in Fort Wayne. The son settled in and is now practicing law in Portland, Oregon."

Lucien was a reported to be an Episcopalian^S3, although others thought he was Catholic like his son.

1.   USGENWEB. Marriages, Allen County, IN (1824 to 1837). (Interet Website: USGENWEB).

   File <marralle.txt>

2.   Prosser, William Farrand. A history of the Puget Sound country, its commerce and its people: with some reference to discoveries and exploration in North America from the time of Christopher Columbus down to that of George Vancouver in 1792. (New York, New York: Lewis Pub. Co., 1903).
3.   The Political Graveyard.

   http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ferriss-fieger.html

4. ↑ Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   (citing original vol. 2, p. 121).
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} Find A Grave.

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