John was married to Harriet "Hattie" Lucretia Clemons on June 12, 1878 at Erie County, Ohio. His parents were William Hopkins Cherry and Susan Elizabeth Kirtland.
John worked as a postal employee in the Sandusky Post Office in the early 1880s. A telephone exchange was installed in the post office building. John took a keen interest in the telephone and spent his spare time learning the business. After a bad snow storm hit the area in 1883, the manager left and John was asked to be manager. He later became manager in Toledo of the Central Union Telephone Company.
John was survived by three sons, John W. Cherry Jr. who was eighth manager of the Sandusky plant and later division plant manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. at Columbus; Frank W. Cherry of Chicago; and Ralph Cherry of Devil's Lake, Mich.
John worked as a postal employee in the Sandusky Post Office in the early 1880s. A telephone exchange was installed in the post office building. John took a keen interest in the telephone and spent his spare time learning the business. After a bad snow storm hit the area in 1883, the manager left and John was asked to be manager. He later became manager in Toledo of the Central Union Telephone Company.
John was survived by three sons, John W. Cherry Jr. who was eighth manager of the Sandusky plant and later division plant manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. at Columbus; Frank W. Cherry of Chicago; and Ralph Cherry of Devil's Lake, Mich.
John was married to Harriet "Hattie" Lucretia Clemons on June 12, 1878 at Erie County, Ohio. His parents were William Hopkins Cherry and Susan Elizabeth Kirtland.
John worked as a postal employee in the Sandusky Post Office in the early 1880s. A telephone exchange was installed in the post office building. John took a keen interest in the telephone and spent his spare time learning the business. After a bad snow storm hit the area in 1883, the manager left and John was asked to be manager. He later became manager in Toledo of the Central Union Telephone Company.
John was survived by three sons, John W. Cherry Jr. who was eighth manager of the Sandusky plant and later division plant manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. at Columbus; Frank W. Cherry of Chicago; and Ralph Cherry of Devil's Lake, Mich.
John worked as a postal employee in the Sandusky Post Office in the early 1880s. A telephone exchange was installed in the post office building. John took a keen interest in the telephone and spent his spare time learning the business. After a bad snow storm hit the area in 1883, the manager left and John was asked to be manager. He later became manager in Toledo of the Central Union Telephone Company.
John was survived by three sons, John W. Cherry Jr. who was eighth manager of the Sandusky plant and later division plant manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. at Columbus; Frank W. Cherry of Chicago; and Ralph Cherry of Devil's Lake, Mich.
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