TRUMBULL COUNTY OHIO - Bio: PERROTT, Ralph O.,(pub. 1925)
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Subj: [OHTRUMBU] Bacon, Volume V, History of Ohio, 1925
Date: 9/2/2001 8:40:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From:    margstri@bmi.net (Margaret Strickland)
To:    OHTRUMBU-L@rootsweb.com



For Gayle in Cincinnati:

Nancy J. Bacon - page 169 - Bio Of Ralph O. Perrott, pages 169 & 170

RALPH O. PERROTT, secretary and manger of the Hadfield Penfield Steel
Company, formerly the American Clay Machinery Company of Bucyrus, was born
in that city, and as a small boy exercised his initiative and ingenuity in
providing for himself and at the age of eighteen, in 1901, went to work as a
stenographer for the American Clay Machinery Company, and has been an
executive of the business since 1906.

He was born at Bucyrus in January, 1883, son of John R. and Nancy J. (Bacon)
Perrott.  His parents were born, reared and married in western Pennsylvania,
and in 1860 came to Ohio and located at Crestline, where John R. Perrott was
employed as a mechanic in the Pennsylvania Railroad shops of the Bucyrus
Steam Shovel and Dredging Company and was connected with that important
industry for many years.

Ralph O. Perrott was delivering newspapers in Bucyrus while attending the
public schools, and these early associations influenced him to learn the
printing trade.  For several years he was an employe in the Hopley printing
establishment at Bucyrus.  He made satisfactory progress in the printing and
newspaper business, but eventually decided to seek another field.  He had
proved his thrift and had a small amount of capital to tide him over while
getting started.  He worked as a stenographer, and subsequently was
transferred from the general office to the credit department of the American
Clay Machinery Company.  Here he proved his abilities as an organizer, and
eventually was made head of the department.  By his systematic methods and
good judgment he had this department soon operating in a most efficient
manner, so that it proved its value in collecting a large volume of accounts
that had been considered worthless and regulated the line of credits so as
to avoid, so far as possible, bad debts in the future.  On account of this
admirable record Mr. Perrott in 1906 was made secretary of the corporation,
and manager of the Bucyrus plant, and has contributed in no small degree to
the wonderful success of this, one of the city's leading industries.

Mr. Perrott married Miss Blanche Quilter.  She was born in Bucyrus, daughter
of Frank and Bridget (Kane) Quilter.  Her father is superintendent of the
Broker Sword Stone Company of Bucyrus.  She and her family are members of
the Catholic Church..  Mr. and Mrs. Perrott have three children:  Margaret
Maxine, born May 24, 1909; Ralph Oren, Jr., born July 7, 1912, and Mary
Alice, born April 25, 1918.  Mr. Perrott is an active worker in the
Episcopal Church, is a republican, was presidential elector on the Harding
ticket in 1920, and is a Knights Templar and Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner
and a past exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
Lodge No. 156.  Among other interests he was a director of the Farmers
National Bank, and was also officially interested in the Bucyrus Hospital.

Margaret Strickland,
Walla Walla, WA


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