Hunt, Herbert and Floyd C. Kaylor.  Washington: West of the 
Cascades.  Vol. II.  Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917.  p. 
603-604.

	JOHN C. BERRY:  In pioneer days John C. Berry became 
identified with the interests of the northwest and he took an 
important part in the development of this region.  His life was 
devoted to civil engineering and he was serving as city engineer of 
Central [sic], Washington, at the time of his death, which occurred 
June 8, 1917. 
	Mr. Berry was born in Osage county, Missouri, on the 26th 
of October, 1860, and was a son of James T. and Alida (Winston) 
Berry, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter of Virginia.  
The father was a small boy when taken by his parents to Missouri, 
in which state he made his home for many years.  He too was a civil 
engineer by profession.  During the dark days of the Civil war he 
enlisted as a private in Company I, Twenty-sixth Volunteer Infantry, 
but was later promoted to captain of his company, and he 
participated in a number of very important engagements, including 
the battles of Iuka, Corinth, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, 
and Island No. 10.  He was also present at the fall of Vicksburg and 
remained in the service for four years.  He was twice slightly 
wounded and sustained such serious injuries by being thrown from 
his horse that he was finally discharged a short time before the 
surrender of General Lee.  Being appointed a government surveyor, 
he came to the state of Washington in 1872 and located and 
surveyed about seventy-five townships here and in Oregon, making 
his home in the meantime on a farm near Chehalis.  Later he 
removed to that city, where for ten years he was local land agent for 
the Northern Pacific Railroad.  His well spent life was ended in 
1892 and his wife died about 1887.  In their family were three 
children, of whom the only daughter was the oldest.
	John C. Berry, the second in order of birth, attended the 
public schoolsof Missouri.  His knowledge of civil engineering was 
largely acquired under the able direction of his father, who was a 
graduate of Westminster College at Fulton, Missouri.  On starting 
out in life for himself, our subject followed civil engineering, 
principally in the service of the railroads on the Pacific coast in the 
northwest, but at his death was filling the position of the city 
engineer of Centralia, to which he was appointed in February, 1916.
	In 1884, Mr. Berry was married near Centralia to Miss Anna 
Zenkner, a stepdaughter of Joseph Schimek, who was a well known 
farmer of that locality.  To this union were born three children: Tate, 
who is now serving as game warden in Lewis county; Alida Anna, 
the wife of Schulyer Davis, a carpenter of Centralia; and Nellie, who 
is now a senior in the high school of Centralia.
	After casting his first vote Mr. Berry always supported the 
republican party and he served as county surveyor of Lewis county 
for one term in territorial days.  He was an Episcopalian in religious 
faith and was a member of the Masonic order and the Commercial 
Club of Centralia.  He was a prominent representative of his 
profession and in the discharge of his duties he gained a very wide 
acquaintance west of the Cascades.  All who knew him held him in 
the highest esteem and those who knew him best were his closest 
friends.  For almost forty-five years he lived in western Washington 
and therefore witnessed almost its entire development for when he 
came to Lewis county its largest precinct contained only sixty and 
there were only three hundred voters in the county at that time. 


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