Biography of Joseph M. Perry, Lakeland, Polk Co., FL

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JOSEPH M. PERRY

     Joseph M. Perry, of Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, was born near Liberty Hill,
Kershaw County, South Carolina, April 07, 1837, of Irish and Scotch extraction,
being born and reared in one of the wealthiest slave-owning districts of the South,
he had, in common with other young men of his day, sons of wealthy slave-owners, the
advantage of good educational facilities in the way of select schools in which he
obtained the greatest portion of his literary education.  He commenced the study of
Medicine in 1856, in office with his brother-in-law, Dr. Henry J. Lee, of
Darlington, South Carolina, and entered the Medical College of the State of South
Carolina in the year 1858, graduating on the 18th of March 1860...  led him to join
the Confederate Army, entering service as a scout...  Dr. Perry was married in
Winnsborough, South Carolina, March 31, 1864, to Miss Emma L., daughter of Colonel
Felix Long and a granddaughter of Colonel William McCreight of Revolutionary fame,
when America achieved her independence.

Ref:  Stone, R. French, M. D., BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND
SURGEONS, 1894, Carlon & Hollenbeck, Publishers, Indianapolis, p. 381.

[Contributed by Barbara Walker Winge,  barbarawinge@yahoo.com]