John Taylor Terry

Terry, as found in the Illustrated American biography; containing memoirs, and engravings and etchings of representative Americans. vol. 4, 1895 John Taylor Terry (September 9, 1822 – May 3, 1913) was an American merchant and banker.

Early life Terry was born on September 9, 1822, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a son of Harriet ( Taylor) Terry (1794–1841) and Roderick Terry (1788–1849), a member of the City Council and Connecticut state legislature who was president of The Exchange Bank in Hartford.

His maternal grandparents were the Rev. John Taylor and Elizabeth ( Terry) Taylor.

Personal life

In 1846, Terry was married to Elizabeth Roe Peet (1826–1899), a daughter of Frederick Tomlinson Peet and Elizabeth Roe ( Lockwood) Peet.

Frederick Peet Terry (1847–1874), a Yale graduate and merchant who married Ellen Mills Battell, a daughter of Robbins Battell. After his death, she married Carl Stoeckel. Roderick Terry (1849–1933), a minister who married Linda Marquand, a daughter of Henry Gurdon Marquand, in 1875. Henriette Taylor Terry (1851–1857), who died young. who married Bertha Halsted, sister of Dr. William Stewart Halsted.

In June 1853, he was a founder of the Irvington Presbyterian Church, serving as an officer of the church for the rest of his life.

Terry died on May 3, 1913, and was buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.

Pinkstone estate In 1853, 31-year-old Terry acquired a 35-acre estate along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, from the Requa family (next door to Lyndhurst, the estate of New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., then merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould). In 1858 he began construction of a pink granite mansion on his estate which he called "Pinkstone". The estate remained in his family until his death in 1913 when it was sold to Rev. Alfred Duane Pell before being acquired by Harold Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers (who added a brick exterior in the Georgian Colonial style and renamed the house "Willow Pond").