BIOGRAPHY: Perrin, Jeremiah
From the A.T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa, 1875

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	Mr. JEREMIAH PERRIN, a prominent pioneer settler of Clarksville, Butler County, 
Vice President of the Shell Rock Valley Bank, of Greene, and a leading Director of the 
Butler County Bank, of Clarksville, was born in the village of Cottes Brooke, Northampton, 
England, November 28, 1820.  Reared under humble circumstances upon a farm, he enjoyed 
no special educational privileges.  December, 1843, at the age of twenty three years, 
he united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Woods, of the village of Old, Northamptonshire, 
accompanied by whom, in the Spring  Of 1844, he emigrated to America, and located about 
ten miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  There he engaged in stone quarrying for 
about two years, after that in farming until the Spring of 1851.  In March of 
the latter year he further emigrated to Muscatine, Iowa, and thence in September 
following to the immediate vicinity of Clarksville, where he has ever since continued to 
reside, principally devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits.  The only serious 
misfortune that has befallen him during the latter period, was the death of his very 
estimable wife, which occurred in November, 1865.  In June, 1866, Mr. Perrin re-married 
with Miss Ann Hillman, of Rockford, Illinois, who still survives.  By hard work and strict 
economy, as well as by the practice of the higher virtues that ennoble man, Mr. Perrin 
has steadily risen from a state of comparative poverty and obscurity to that of one of the 
largest landed proprietors and noted farmers and capitalists in Butler County.