While John T. Currey was born in the USA, his parents (John Currey and Della) moved to the US from England in 1835. His father was a manufacturer of rope and bagging at Harrodsburg where he died in 1863; his mother, Mrs. Della Currey died at that place in 1866. John worked in his father's factory until his marriage to Elizabeth McBrayer, in Anderson County, KY, January 16, 1861, at which time he began life on his own account as a farmer. He merchandised at Danville, KY., from 1865 to 1875, began farming in 1875, first in Kentucky and then in Texas when he moved there in 1879.
(Texas State Government, A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, by E. H. Loughery; 1897, McLeod & Jackson, printers Austin Texas)
John attended the schools of his native town, and was a pupil one session at Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, but his father meeting with financial reverses, he was, at fourteen years of age, compelled to leave the school room and seriously engage in the battle of life. He had a brave young heart, and the responsibilities incurred, and vicissitudes encountered in early life, developed that sturdy independence and self-reliance that have since marked his character as a man, and enabled him to so well discharge his duties as husband, father, citizen and friend.
January 27, 1862, he was married to Miss Lizzie McBrayer, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. They have eight children, viz: Mattie, now Mrs. John K. King; Sallie, now Mrs. Killis A. Reed; and John, Kate, Sanford, Lizzie, Willie and Charley Currey.
While living in Kentucky, Mr. Currey was engaged at different times, in farming and merchandising. He sold his stock of goods at Danville, Kentucky, bought lands in Mercer County, Kentucky, traded these lands for other lands near Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas, and in November, 1879, moved to Texas with his family, and commenced farming near Canton, where he has since resided, successfully engaged in his chosen pursuit. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Masonic fraternity and Farmers' Alliance. He was president of the County Farmers' Alliance one term. He has taken great interest in the public schools, and church work, and has done all he could to promote alike the causes of education and religion.
Mr. Currey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Twenty-sixth Representative district (Van Zandt County), and, in 1890 was elected from the same district to the Twenty-second Legislature. In the latter body he was chairman of the House Committee on Treasurer's and Comptroller's Offices, and a member of the following committees: Finance, Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and Mining and Minerals. James Q. Chenoweth, T.M. Hunt and John T. Currey were raised in Harrodsburg, and, as boys, played together upon the streets of that town. Each removed to the Lone Star State, and has served as a member of the Texas Legislature.
Mr. Currey made a painstaking and efficient member of the Twentieth and Twenty-second Legislatures. His well known integrity and soundness of judgment gave him a strong influence in the deliberations of the committee-rooms, and upon the floor of the House. He was a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of the State. He is broad and liberal in his views of public policy, and as a law-maker, was a champion, not alone of the rights of the farmers, but of all the people.
(Personnnel of the Texas State Government, with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas; L.E. Daniell, Austin, Texas; published by Maverick Printing House, 1892.)
John T Currey served in the Texas Legislature during the 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 30th, and 31st terms as a Democrat for Van Zandt County.
(Texas State Government, A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, by E. H. Loughery; 1897, McLeod & Jackson, printers Austin Texas)
John attended the schools of his native town, and was a pupil one session at Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, but his father meeting with financial reverses, he was, at fourteen years of age, compelled to leave the school room and seriously engage in the battle of life. He had a brave young heart, and the responsibilities incurred, and vicissitudes encountered in early life, developed that sturdy independence and self-reliance that have since marked his character as a man, and enabled him to so well discharge his duties as husband, father, citizen and friend.
January 27, 1862, he was married to Miss Lizzie McBrayer, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. They have eight children, viz: Mattie, now Mrs. John K. King; Sallie, now Mrs. Killis A. Reed; and John, Kate, Sanford, Lizzie, Willie and Charley Currey.
While living in Kentucky, Mr. Currey was engaged at different times, in farming and merchandising. He sold his stock of goods at Danville, Kentucky, bought lands in Mercer County, Kentucky, traded these lands for other lands near Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas, and in November, 1879, moved to Texas with his family, and commenced farming near Canton, where he has since resided, successfully engaged in his chosen pursuit. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Masonic fraternity and Farmers' Alliance. He was president of the County Farmers' Alliance one term. He has taken great interest in the public schools, and church work, and has done all he could to promote alike the causes of education and religion.
Mr. Currey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Twenty-sixth Representative district (Van Zandt County), and, in 1890 was elected from the same district to the Twenty-second Legislature. In the latter body he was chairman of the House Committee on Treasurer's and Comptroller's Offices, and a member of the following committees: Finance, Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and Mining and Minerals. James Q. Chenoweth, T.M. Hunt and John T. Currey were raised in Harrodsburg, and, as boys, played together upon the streets of that town. Each removed to the Lone Star State, and has served as a member of the Texas Legislature.
Mr. Currey made a painstaking and efficient member of the Twentieth and Twenty-second Legislatures. His well known integrity and soundness of judgment gave him a strong influence in the deliberations of the committee-rooms, and upon the floor of the House. He was a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of the State. He is broad and liberal in his views of public policy, and as a law-maker, was a champion, not alone of the rights of the farmers, but of all the people.
(Personnnel of the Texas State Government, with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas; L.E. Daniell, Austin, Texas; published by Maverick Printing House, 1892.)
John T Currey served in the Texas Legislature during the 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 30th, and 31st terms as a Democrat for Van Zandt County.
While John T. Currey was born in the USA, his parents (John Currey and Della) moved to the US from England in 1835. His father was a manufacturer of rope and bagging at Harrodsburg where he died in 1863; his mother, Mrs. Della Currey died at that place in 1866. John worked in his father's factory until his marriage to Elizabeth McBrayer, in Anderson County, KY, January 16, 1861, at which time he began life on his own account as a farmer. He merchandised at Danville, KY., from 1865 to 1875, began farming in 1875, first in Kentucky and then in Texas when he moved there in 1879.
(Texas State Government, A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, by E. H. Loughery; 1897, McLeod & Jackson, printers Austin Texas)
John attended the schools of his native town, and was a pupil one session at Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, but his father meeting with financial reverses, he was, at fourteen years of age, compelled to leave the school room and seriously engage in the battle of life. He had a brave young heart, and the responsibilities incurred, and vicissitudes encountered in early life, developed that sturdy independence and self-reliance that have since marked his character as a man, and enabled him to so well discharge his duties as husband, father, citizen and friend.
January 27, 1862, he was married to Miss Lizzie McBrayer, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. They have eight children, viz: Mattie, now Mrs. John K. King; Sallie, now Mrs. Killis A. Reed; and John, Kate, Sanford, Lizzie, Willie and Charley Currey.
While living in Kentucky, Mr. Currey was engaged at different times, in farming and merchandising. He sold his stock of goods at Danville, Kentucky, bought lands in Mercer County, Kentucky, traded these lands for other lands near Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas, and in November, 1879, moved to Texas with his family, and commenced farming near Canton, where he has since resided, successfully engaged in his chosen pursuit. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Masonic fraternity and Farmers' Alliance. He was president of the County Farmers' Alliance one term. He has taken great interest in the public schools, and church work, and has done all he could to promote alike the causes of education and religion.
Mr. Currey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Twenty-sixth Representative district (Van Zandt County), and, in 1890 was elected from the same district to the Twenty-second Legislature. In the latter body he was chairman of the House Committee on Treasurer's and Comptroller's Offices, and a member of the following committees: Finance, Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and Mining and Minerals. James Q. Chenoweth, T.M. Hunt and John T. Currey were raised in Harrodsburg, and, as boys, played together upon the streets of that town. Each removed to the Lone Star State, and has served as a member of the Texas Legislature.
Mr. Currey made a painstaking and efficient member of the Twentieth and Twenty-second Legislatures. His well known integrity and soundness of judgment gave him a strong influence in the deliberations of the committee-rooms, and upon the floor of the House. He was a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of the State. He is broad and liberal in his views of public policy, and as a law-maker, was a champion, not alone of the rights of the farmers, but of all the people.
(Personnnel of the Texas State Government, with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas; L.E. Daniell, Austin, Texas; published by Maverick Printing House, 1892.)
John T Currey served in the Texas Legislature during the 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 30th, and 31st terms as a Democrat for Van Zandt County.
(Texas State Government, A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, by E. H. Loughery; 1897, McLeod & Jackson, printers Austin Texas)
John attended the schools of his native town, and was a pupil one session at Asbury University, Greencastle, Indiana, but his father meeting with financial reverses, he was, at fourteen years of age, compelled to leave the school room and seriously engage in the battle of life. He had a brave young heart, and the responsibilities incurred, and vicissitudes encountered in early life, developed that sturdy independence and self-reliance that have since marked his character as a man, and enabled him to so well discharge his duties as husband, father, citizen and friend.
January 27, 1862, he was married to Miss Lizzie McBrayer, of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. They have eight children, viz: Mattie, now Mrs. John K. King; Sallie, now Mrs. Killis A. Reed; and John, Kate, Sanford, Lizzie, Willie and Charley Currey.
While living in Kentucky, Mr. Currey was engaged at different times, in farming and merchandising. He sold his stock of goods at Danville, Kentucky, bought lands in Mercer County, Kentucky, traded these lands for other lands near Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas, and in November, 1879, moved to Texas with his family, and commenced farming near Canton, where he has since resided, successfully engaged in his chosen pursuit. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Masonic fraternity and Farmers' Alliance. He was president of the County Farmers' Alliance one term. He has taken great interest in the public schools, and church work, and has done all he could to promote alike the causes of education and religion.
Mr. Currey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Twenty-sixth Representative district (Van Zandt County), and, in 1890 was elected from the same district to the Twenty-second Legislature. In the latter body he was chairman of the House Committee on Treasurer's and Comptroller's Offices, and a member of the following committees: Finance, Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and Mining and Minerals. James Q. Chenoweth, T.M. Hunt and John T. Currey were raised in Harrodsburg, and, as boys, played together upon the streets of that town. Each removed to the Lone Star State, and has served as a member of the Texas Legislature.
Mr. Currey made a painstaking and efficient member of the Twentieth and Twenty-second Legislatures. His well known integrity and soundness of judgment gave him a strong influence in the deliberations of the committee-rooms, and upon the floor of the House. He was a worthy representative of the agricultural interests of the State. He is broad and liberal in his views of public policy, and as a law-maker, was a champion, not alone of the rights of the farmers, but of all the people.
(Personnnel of the Texas State Government, with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas; L.E. Daniell, Austin, Texas; published by Maverick Printing House, 1892.)
John T Currey served in the Texas Legislature during the 20th, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 30th, and 31st terms as a Democrat for Van Zandt County.
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There is no date of death inscribed on his headstone. There is an obituary for him that states the date of death is 11-28-1918.
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