A. M. FRY, a leading general contractor at Piqua, Ohio, has been a resident of this city since the spring of 1890 and has thoroughly identified himself with its interests. He was born in 1861, in Montgomery County, Ohio, but was reared to manhood on a farm in Darke County.

When aged twenty-one, Mr. Fry learned the carpenter trade and continued to work at it until 1888, when he began contracting at Versailles, Ohio, coming from there to Piqua, in 1890. Here he went into general contracting and has been so successful that he has easily taken a place among the leading men in that line in this section. Many of his contracts have been for large oil-mills and substantial grist-mills, and he built Mays' Opera House, the Atlas Underwear Building, the Union Underwear Building or woolen mills, the Orr & Flesh Building, the J.W. Brown Building and others at Piqua, churches and schools at Maywood, the Forest School at Troy, the Manual-Training School at West Milton, the Piqua Business Men's Club Building, and some of the finest private residences in the State. Mr. Fry is interested in a business way in the French Oil-Mill Machine Works.

In 1887 Mr. Fry was married to Miss Mary A. Routson, who died in September, 1898, survived by four children; Alvin Victor, Margaret Irene, Raymond Chester and Annie Elizabeth. Mr. Fry is a member of the First Presbyterian Church, in which he is a deacon. He is connected with the Business Men's Club, and is a representative man in all that pertains to good citizenship.