Perley, Asa Charles (1829-1914)

PERLEY

Posted By: Rosemary Hoover (email)
Date: 4/19/2008 at 22:32:57

History & Genealogy of the Perley Family
Compiled by Marvin Van Buren Perley-375.
Published by the Compiler, 1906, Salem, MA.

Family 281: Perley

Lineal Descent - Allan-1, Thomas-4, Thomas-16, Asa-35, Daniel-68, Frederick Porter-140.

ASA CHARLES PERLEY was born in St. John, N.B., 4 Jan., 1829. He was a farmer boy till seventeen, when apprenticed to learn the carpenter's trade. Carpentry and car building, Indiana, were his business till a score of years ago, when he bought a farm in Spring Hill, Iowa. He was a school director, real estate supervisor and township trustee. He writes: As to wealth, we have neither poverty nor riches, but think, if any of the Perleys would give us a call, we could do the fair thing by them. His wife and daughter are members of the M.E. Church. Mr. Perley is now retired. His wife was Sarah Whitely, married in Lafayette, Ind., 13 Nov., 1857, born in Staley Bridge, England, 28 July, 1833. Her mother's maiden name was Harriet Boothroyd. Their children were born in Michigan City, Ind. Their home now is Indianola, Iowa.

1 Perley children: Carrie Lorinda, George Frederick

2 Carrie L. was born 22 Dec., 1859. She taught for several year in the public schools of Warren County, Iowa. She married her twenty-first birthday and his twenty-fourth, 22 Dec., 1880, John Pressley Anderson, a merchant of Indianola, Iowa, son of William and Euphemia-Findley Anderson.

3 George F. was born 13 June, 1865. He married in Des Moines, Iowa, 25 Dec., 1889, Margaret Buck, born in Oneco, Ill., 24 May, 1868, to Ezekiel, farmer, and Lydia-Scott Buck. Mr. Perley is a merchant in Indianola. Perley children: Hazel, born 21 Dec., 1890; George Ernest, born 3 Aug., 1893.