Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

David FRY, farmer; P. O. Plainfield; was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, Dec. 7, 1850, and 
is the son of Jacob and Catherine (GRILL) FRY, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio 
in 1841, then, in 1854, to Wheatland Twp., Will Co., IL; Mr. FRY was brought up on his 
father's farm, and has farmed it through life. He was married, Dec. 19, 1872, to Miss 
Mariah BOPP; she was born in York Co., Penn., June 27, 1857, and is the daughter of 
William BOPP, who was born in Saxony, Germany, in July, 1821, and Catherine (GANSERD) 
BOPP, born in Baden, Germany, in 1828; they emigrated to America in 1852; came to 
Illinois in 1864. Mr. FRY is a member of the German Lutheran Church, of which Church 
his father, Jacob, is one of the first members. Have three children.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.