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Terry was born at Watervliet Center, New York, in 1848. He was the son of William Henry and Sarah (Burke) Terry. In 1850 the family moved to Ohio, settling first at Plymouth and later in Ashtabula.
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Terry was born at Watervliet Center, New York, in 1848. He was the son of William Henry and Sarah (Burke) Terry. In 1850 the family moved to Ohio, settling first at Plymouth and later in Ashtabula.
Young Terry attended the local high school and academy in Plymouth. Then he entered the Homoeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1872. The several succeeding years were largely occupied in postgraduate study of ophthalmology in New York City and abroad.
After a short period of practice in Akron, Ohio, he removed to Utica, N. Y. , in 1873. He developed a high degree of skill as a general surgeon and also practised internal medicine. He served as head of the surgical staff of the Utica Homoeopathic Hospital from 1895 to 1905 and was an attending surgeon for the Utica General Hospital. In 1880 he was appointed surgeon to the 4th Brigade, New York National Guard, with the grade of major, and in 1895 he was promoted to the position of surgeon-general of the state troops with the grade of brigadier-general.
He served throughout the Spanish-American War on active duty under his state commission. Beginning with the supervision of the medical service of the state camp, he was later commissioned to investigate the care of New York troops in federal camps, with special reference to the cause of the high incidence of typhoid fever, at that time epidemic in these camps. His report to the governor, in which he held that the prevalence of flies was a major factor in the spread of the disease, aroused a storm of discussion and criticism, and resulted in the appointment by the government of the so-called Shakespeare board for the thorough investigation of the camp epidemics. He was offered the appointment of division chief surgeon of volunteers by President McKinley, but his duties to the state troops prevented his accepting it. He perfected a litter, a field operating case, and an ambulance, and developed a medical and surgical field chest. He retired from practice in Utica in 1905.
He became interested in the development of Fort Myers, Fla. , where he became the owner of a large hotel, and was instrumental in the construction of a sea-wall and of a boulevard connecting the city with Puntarassa, eighteen miles distant on the Gulf of Mexico.
For many years he maintained a summer home at Mamaroneck and a winter home at Fort Myers. During his later years he divided his residence between New York City and Coronado, Cal. , where he died of pneumonia. He was buried at his boyhood home at Ashtabula, Ohio.
He wrote numerous journal articles on topics relating to military medical service, and during the World War he published for free distribution The Soldier's Medical Friend: A Gift to the Surgeons of the United States Government and Their Allies (1917). This handbook was largely a collection of reprints of previous journal articles, which he considered would be useful to the military surgeon.
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He joined the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in 1895, soon after its organization, and maintained an active membership for the remainder of his life.
He was a member and onetime president of the state association of medical officers and of the state homoeopathic medical society, and a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy.
In 1905 year married Mrs. A. M. McGregor of Mamaroneck, N. Y. His wife dying in 1912, he subsequently married Mrs. Adabelle R. Merritt of Berkeley, Cal.
