Calhoun County MI Archives News.....Albion Civil War Veteran Is 100 Years Old Monday January 28, 1940
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Lansing State Journal January 28, 1940
Lansing State Journal
Sunday, January 28, 1940
Albion Civil War Veteran is 100 Years Old Monday
(Special to the State Journal)
Albion,  Jan. 27 - Albion's only Civil war veteran,  Jacob Harson Perine 
celebrates his 100th birthday Monday and several special events are planned 
in his honor, although his feeble health will not permit him to leave the 
home of his daughter, Mrs. Harry O. Ellerby where he has resided for 12 
years.  The Albion Three-Quarters Century club made up of persons 75 years 
old and older, was to hold an informal party for their fellow members at the 
Ellerby home Saturday afternoon.  On Sunday morning the First Presbyterian 
church of which Mr. Perine is a member will hold a special service in his 
honor presided over by the pastor,  Dr. John W. Kitching. Various church 
organizations will take part. Sunday at the Ellerby home a family dinner for 
Mr. Perine's relatives will take place with another Monday for relatives of 
Mrs. Perrine, who died in 1919.
Mr. Perine was born January 29, 1840 in New York city and came to Michigan 
at the age of five with his parents, William Henry and Susan Wade Wooley 
Perine. They settled on a farm near Tekonsha, southwest of Albion. 
He enlisted at Tekonsha August 15, 1862, when he was 22 years old, Company 
E., Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry. He fought for the Union in the 
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville and was twice wounded in the 
arm and body, on the second day of fighting at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863. For 
over a year he was recovering in hospitals at Fort Schuyler and Davids on 
the Hudson river, being able to return to service with the Army of the 
Potomac in the fall of 1864. He was at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to 
Grant and for several days prior to that he came in close contact with 
Grant, who walked among the troops every day with his slouch hat and only 
meager insignia to tell his rank. Mr. Perine was discharged June 5, 1865, 
and came to Albion where his parents had moved in the meantime.  After a few 
years of farming here and in Missouri he was married in Albion in 1871 to 
Miss Alice E. Parmalee. They farmed in Missouri for seven years before 
returning to Albion to reside permanently.
He has held every office in the now defunct E.W. Hollingsworth Post No. 210 
G.A.R. of Albion. 
Although his eyesight and hearing have been impaired somewhat with age, he 
is keenly interested in current events and keeps in touch with American and 
international affairs by means of the radio and his daughter reading to him. 
Another daughter and son are dead. Fred A. Perine of Detroit is a nephew.


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