Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Perry, William H. January 3, 1844 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Perry, William H., Little Falls, was born in Little Falls, January 3, 1844. He 
received a good common school education, after which he worked in a spinning 
mill, and attended locks for about four years. For the next eighteen years he 
clerked for Chris Lee, and upon the death of the latter, opened up business 
for himself at Lock 37 on the Erie canal. In 1861 he was the leader in the 
movement to organize a company to participate in the civil war. They desired 
to elect him captain, which office he refused on account his age, being only 
eighteen at that time, but he enlisted in the Thirty-Fourth New York 
Volunteers, under Col. William La Due, and participated in every battle from 
the beginning of the war to the battle of Antietam. In 1864 he married Jane 
Ann Flansburg, and of their nine children, six are now living. Mr. Perry is a
prominent member of the  G. A. R. and has held several local public offices.

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source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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