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Joshua Fry 1760 - 1839
Mercer County KyArchives Biography

Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company

Joshua Fry was born in Virginia, in 1760.  His father, Col. Fry, commanded the 
Virginia troops in the early Colonial war. Joshua Fry served as a common 
soldier in the war of the Revolution. He received a thorough classical 
education, inherited a large estate, and in 1788 settled in Mercer County, 
Kentucky, with his family, where he subsequently organized a school, which he 
carried on for several years, and became one of the most distinguished among 
the early teachers of Kentucky, many of the first men of the State receiving 
their early training under him.  He gave his attention also largely to all 
matters pertaining to the improvement of the new country, and was one of its 
most worthy and wealthy citizens. He died in 1839, at Danville, Kentucky, and 
was universally honored and esteemed. He was married, in Virginia, to the 
daughter of Thomas Walker, one of the earliest explorers of Kentucky. His 
daughter, Lucy, became the wife of Judge John Speed. One of his daughters was 
the first wife of Judge John Green. Another daughter became the wife of David 
Bell, the father of Hon. Joshua Fry Bell, and many of the worthy families of 
the State are numbered among their descendants.



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