Bio: Judge W. C. Perrin,  Caddo Parish La
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville,  1890
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker




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     JUDGE W. C. PERRIN, cotton factor and dealer in real estate, has been a
resident of Shreveport for twenty-five years, and during that time has won
for himself a leading place in the mercantile and social circles of the
city.  He owes his nativity to Harrison County, Ky., his birth occurring on
November 7, 1832, and his educational facilities were such as could be
obtained in the common schools.  He assisted his father on the home place
until seventeen years of age, and then with the latter embarked in the
hotel business, which they continued for four years.  After this Judge W.
C. Perrin was postmaster clerk at Vicksburg, Miss., for two years, then he
taught school in the Blue-Grass State for a short time.  From there he went
to Kansas in 1857, and sold goods there while the Indians were still in the
State.  Later he returned to Kentucky and was bookkeeper at Louisville for
about four years.  In 1862 he enlisted in Company E, Fourteenth Kentucky
Cavalry, Morgan's command, and served until the close.  He held the rank of
corporal.  He was captured at Cheshire, Ohio, taken to Camp Chase, then to
Camp douglas, Chicago, and was held a prisoner for a little over twenty-two
months.  He was exchanged with the last squad at the mouth of Red River.  In
1865 he came to Shreveport, La., and was freight clerk with Phelps & Co.,
remaining in that capacity for two years.  Subsequently he was with J. C.
Elsner, and had charge of a wharf boat for some time, and then entered the
employ of S. B. McCutcheon & Co., remaining fifteen years with this house.
He then bought an interest and the firm became McCutcheon & Perrin, thus
continuing for two years, when it was changed to Perrin & Ziegler.  Four
years later Mr. Ziegler withdrew, and since then Judge Perrin has conducted
the business alone.  He makes a specialty of real estate and cotton, and
does an extensive business.  Interested as he is in property of all kinds,
and in the cotton market, he has at all times striven to advance the very
best interests of the community.  He is a popular man, and has held the
office of treasurer of Caddo Parish for six years, also other offices of
trust such as treasurer of the Board of Trade, treasurer of the Inter-State
Loan Association, besides being connected with other matters of vital
importance to the city.  He does a general real estate business, and has
city, suburban and country property for sale.  He is a most thorough and
energetic man of business, and reliable in all his transactions.  He came
here a poor boy, and has gradually worked his way to the front ranks of the
substantial citizens of Shreveport, and now enjoys the fruits of his
industry.  The Judge is a member of the I. O. O. R. and the A. O. U. W.  He
has been married twice, first in 1867 to Miss Georgia T. McFall, and the
second time in 1885, to Miss Anna Conway.  With is worthy wife he belongs
to the Presbyterian Church.  His parents, Green K. and Mary B. (Ingles)
Perrin, were natives of Kentucky, and of French descent.  The father was a
farmer and passed his entire life in his native State.  The mother died in
Shreveport, La.  They were the parents of ten children, seven of whom are
living at the present time:  Mrs. E. W. Sparks (of Shreveport), Benjamin
F. (deceased), Solomon C. (in Shreveport), Gwinn K. (of Kentucky), Mrs.
Anna Zabor (of Shreveport), Mrs. Evaline Demitt (of Cynthiana, Ky.), James
L. (of Nicholas county, Ky.), and Mary (deceased).