Gilbert E. Perry, Worcestershire, ENG., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000




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Gilbert E. Perry, for a number of years salesman and manager for the 

Victrola Talking Machine is head of the victrola and radio department 

in the Feiblenman's Department Store at Shreveport.  Mr. Perry is a 

young business man who has a splendid record of service as a soldier, 

and is one of the overseas veterans of the great war.



He was born at Redditch, Worcestershire, England, in 1893, and when 

nine years of age came to America with his parents.  He lived during 

early youth at Kalamazoo, Michigan, attending public schools there, 

and having his first experience in business life in that city.



He was as a member of Company M of the first Regiment of the Michigan 

National Guard then went to the Mexican border in 1916, serving 

throughout the summer and fall.  After a visit back home to Kalamazoo 

he located at El Paso, he represented Victrola products.  Altogether 

Perry has spent fourteen years in this line of work.  However, in 

June, 1917, he again answered the call to duty as a soldier, going 

into training at Camp Bowie, Ft. Worth. Texas.  He went overseas with 

the Thirty-sixth Division in June, 1918, and in France was with a 

special detachment in the sanitary service at Dijon, Is-sur-Tille and 

elsewhere.  Returning home and receiving his honorable discharge June, 

1919, he came out of the army after practically three years of military 

duty.



Resuming his work for the Victor Company, he was located at Dallas 

for a time. then at Port Arthur, Texas, and in 1920, at Monroe, 

Louisiana, took charge of the Victrola department of the Foster Music 

Company.  In October, 1924, he left Monroe to accept time call to 

Shreveport as manager of the Victrola and radio department in the 

magnificent flew department store of the Feibleman Company.  Here he 

is head of the largest and most complete Victrola and radio department 

in the South, there being eight demonstration rooms, a large stock 

of Victrola instruments and fine radio receiving sets, and upwards 

of ten thousand records constantly available to the public.



Mr. Perry became one of the very popular citizens of Monroe. and was 

especially honored and esteemed in the Lions Club, holding the office 

of vice president when he resigned to come to Shreveport.  He did much 

to uphold, express and extend the ideals of that notable organization 

working for good citizenship, and is now a member of a similar 

organization at Shreveport.  Mr. Perry is also known as a tenor soloist, 

and has been connected with several church choirs, having taken up this 

work in Shreveport.  As the result of a war romance he married, in 

Fort Worth, Texas.  Miss Wesley Horn, of that city.  They have one 

son, Ted.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 44-45, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.