Gentry, Matthew

Flourished: Spencer County, Indiana

Gentry was the son of James Gentry and was a boyhood friend of Abraham Lincoln. He is the subject of the second part of Lincoln's poem, "My Child-hood Home I See Again."

History of Warrick, Spencer and Perry Counties, Indiana (Chicago: Goodspeed Bros., 1885), 452; Abraham Lincoln to Andrew Johnston; "My Childhood-Home I See Again".