Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....Perry, Arthur F. May 13, 1866 - 
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Source: The Lewis Publishing Co. Vol. II, pages 3-4, 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

       PERRY, ARTHUR F.  The financiers who have left the impress of their 
ability on the financial history of Florida have been, in the majority of 
cases, men of affairs, with little instruction in science.  They have stepped 
from the counter or office to the counting-room, demonstrating their fitness to 
be leaders by soundness of judgment and skill in management.  Such a man the 
generation of business men now passing from the scenes of active business 
recognized in ARTHUR F. PERRY at a time when he had just passed his majority at 
Jacksonville, to which city he had come in 1884, as a youth of eighteen years.  
During the following years he developed a capacity for financial management, 
including those opposite qualities of boldness and caution, enterprise and 
prudence, which stamped him as a born engineer of finance, eventually leading 
to his present position of president of the Florida National Bank of 
Jacksonville.  He is distinguished as well as a public-spirited citizen, and 
influential public man and a promoter of public institutions.
       Mr.PERRY was born at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, May 13, 1866, and left 
public school at the age of fifteen years to enter a mercantile concerned.  He 
was eighteen years of age when he came to Jacksonville, and four years later, 
in 1888, was appointed secretary and treasurer of the Citizens Gas and Electric 
Company.  He occupied this post until 1893, when he was appointed secretary and 
treasurer of the Southern Savings and Trust Company, which name was later 
changed to the Mercantile Exchange Bank, of which he became cashier.  At the 
time of the organization of the Florida Bank and Trust Company, January 5, 
1905, he became vice president, and retained this position when the bank was 
nationalized, in September, 1906, as the Florida National Bank of 
Jacksonville.  He succeeded to the presidency in January, 1913.  Mr. Perry's 
ability and judgment have been recognized on numerous occasions and in various 
ways.  He is the director from Florida of the Federal International Banking 
Company, the $7,000,000 Edge Law Bank for financing southern commodities; 
during the World war period was state treasurer of the United War Work 
Campaign, and later has been state treasurer of the Roosevelt Memorial 
Association.  From 1897 until 1901 he was a member of the Jacksonville City 
Council; from 1903 to 1911 was a member of the Board of Bond Trustees, during 
four years of which time he served as secretary of that body; has been 
secretary of the Jacksonville Public Library since his organization; and was a 
member of the Board of Governors of the Jacksonville Board of Trade from 1900 
to 1902 and a vice president of that organization in 1903.  His social 
connections are numerous and include membership in the Seminole Club, the 
Florida Country Club and the Timuquana Country Club.  Mr. Perry's success has 
been the result of his own exertions, guided, no doubt, by natural endowment as 
admirable as it is rare.  He has attained success in business, high social 
position, and, what is the highest tribute to his many estimable qualities, the 
affection of his friends and the esteem of the best members of society.
	On October 7, 1890, Mr. PERRY married Miss ISABELLE C.  STRAWN and they 
have two sons: ARTHUR F., Jr., born in 1894, and HENRY S., born in 1897, both 
of whom served during the World war, having been commissioned lieutenants in 
the Coast Artillery Corps.


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