Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Perry, Henry 1822 - 
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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891)

HENRY PERRY, machinist and proprietor of a shop in Woodland, is the son of
Elisha and Nancy Perry, natives of Maine. He was born in Franklin County, that
State, March 16, 1822. At the age of twenty-two he went to Wareham,
Massachusetts. In the year 1847 he went to Penobscot County, Maine, where he was
engaged in blacksmithing for ten years. He then came to California in 1858, by
water, and since then has made two trips East He first came to Yolo County in
1860, when there was but one house in Woodland, and was owned by Frank Freeman,
and ever since then Mr. Perry has made Woodland his home. He embarked in the
machine business in 1870, in a shop back of the present Bank of Woodland. His
present establishment is on Fourth street, between Main and Lincoln avenue. He
does a much larger business than the size of his shop would indicate. The
machinery he is running here cost $2,500. The engine is a five-horse power.
Blacksmithing is also an industry included within his operations.

  In 1849 Mr. Perry married Miss Elizabeth Whitehouse, by whom he had two
children, John F. and Jessie R., and Mrs. Perry died in 1864, while Mr. Perry
was in California. January, 1869, he married Mrs. Rachel Mudgett, a widow with
two sons. By the present marriage there are the following children: Etna J.,
aged eighteen years; Era ma W., seventeen years, and Clarence H., sixteen years.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from

Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California.

Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast
from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with
Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of
Prominent Citizens of To-day.

"A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendents." – Macauley.

CHICAGO
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1891.


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