H. McCRAY & SON, butter and egg packers. Mr. McCray, Sr., is a native of Licking County, Ohio. He is by trade a carpenter, which occupation, together with egg packing, occupied his attention prior to his coming to Indiana. In February, 1868, he came to Kendallville and engaged in his present business. This business he has given his attention to up to the present time; since May, 1880, in partnership with his son, Elmer. They are doing a large trade in their line, for which they hae excellent facilities. In eggs, they make a specialty, for which they have erected a building, which is, in fact, a mammoth refrigerator, and which will store several hundred barrels; their market is principally New York. Mr. McCray, Sr., has been a member of the Kendallville Common Council two terms, and in the order of Masons is a Knight Templar. He was married, in 1857, to Miss Amanda Reynolds, also a native of Ohio. They have five children--Homer (in Fort Wayne), Elmer, John, Cora and Lena. Mr. McCray is also the owner of a cooper-shop in which he manufactures barrels in large quantities.
Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana, Historical and Biographical, Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, © 1882, Part 2, p. 310.
Transcribed by Denise Wells, May 2013.