John T. Terry

His uncle, Eliphalet Terry, was president of The Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

[3] Terry, George Jay Gould, and the estate of Russell Sage controlled the board and management of Western Union Telegraph Company until 1909 when they all sold their stock to American Telephone & Telegraph Company which assumed control of Western Union.

[15] In 1853, 31-year-old Terry acquired a 35-acre estate along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, from the Requa family (next door to Lyndhurst, the estate of New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., then merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould).

In 1858 he began construction of a pink granite mansion on his estate which he called "Pinkstone".

Alfred Duane Pell before being acquired by Harold Mayer Lehman of Lehman Brothers (who added a brick exterior in the Georgian Colonial style and renamed the house "Willow Pond").

Terry, as found in the Illustrated American biography; containing memoirs, and engravings and etchings of representative Americans. vol. 4 , 1895
Pinkstone, Terry's estate in Tarrytown, New York