Perry, J. H.

PERRY

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 9/22/2008 at 14:09:16

J. H. Perry

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.165, Macedonia Twp.)
J. H. Perry, farmer and stock-dealer, P. O. Carson, was born in Belmont County, Ohio, June 2, 1836. His father, Jesse Perry, was born in Pennsylvania about 1816; settled in Bureau County, Ill., in 1852, where he was employed at farming till his death in July, 1873. Subject's mother, Malinda (Pool) Perry, was born in Loudoun County, Va., in 1818, and died about 1857, and was the mother of eight children, of whom seven are still living, all in Illinois and Iowa except one in California. Mr. Perry attended the common schools, and began farming in his native county on his own farm, where he continued till moving to the town of Malden in March, 1875. He then came to this county and bought his present farm of 520 acres, paying $4,160 for the same. It is now valued at $35 or $40 an acre, and is situated on Gray Bill or Second Creek, one and one-fourth miles southeast of Carson. After making improvements on his farm, Mr. Perry brought his family to it in April, 1880, from the town of Malden, Ill. Mr. Perry was married, in Bureau County, Ill., January 9, 1861, to Arminda E. Hogue, born in Belmont County, Ohio, May 17, 1838, daughter of Nimrod and Sarah A. (Palmer) Hogue, natives of Belmont County, Ohio; he, born in 1816, is a farmer, now living in Pottawattamie County, where he moved in 1880, she, born in 1818, died in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Perry have had four children, two of whom, twins, Elbert and Delbert, are dead; those living are Nora and Sarah M. When quite young, Mr. and Mrs. Perry both became members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Ohio. Mr. Perry has been Township Trustee of Macedonia for the past two years; he is a Republican.