S. H. PERRY
S. H. Perry came here in 1866, and located on section 12, where he built a cabin and made some improvements. Henry McDermott now owns the land on which he settled. Perry staid [sic stayed] some five or six years, when he removed to Exira, Audubon county. On the death of his wife, which occurred sometime afterward, he returned to Pennsylvania, his native State.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 637-638.
