Bios.Tulsa,OK PERRY, Edwin R.
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Posted by Lee Ann Collins on Sun, 02 Jan 2000
Surname: PERRY, LEGGE, NELSON
EDWIN R. PERRY
VOL. 3, p.1139 
As a vigorous and ambitious lawyer, representing the best ideals of the modern legal fraternity, Edwin R. Perry for nearly ten years has had a successful career and one of great promise at Tulsa. The qualities of a fine mind, the endowments of a natural orator and leader among men, and a steady and persevering industry have brought Mr. Perry well to the top of his profession. 
He is a native of Canada, born at Granton, Ontario, March 4, 1874, a son of William and Barbara (LEGGE) Perry. His father was born in Tyrone County in the North of Ireland, and died at the age of seventy-seven years in 1905 in Neepawa, Canada. His mother was born in Canada of Scotch parentage and died in 1903. They had ten children, two of whom died in infancy, while all the others are still living. William Perry, the father, came to Canada at the age of twenty-one, locating in Middlesex County, Ontario, where he became a pioneer and hewed a farm from out the wilderness. He continued as a general farmer until 1891, and then moved out to the frontier, in Manitoba, where he bought a large tract of land, and became extensively engaged in the wheat raising. In 1903 after the death of his wife, he retired, and lived in Neepawa until he lost his life as the result of an accident. 
Edwin R. Perry, who was the sixth child in the family of the parents, received some training in the public schools of Canada, and then entered the Evanston Academy at Evanston, Illinois, and after preparing for college became a student in the Northwestern University at the same place, where he was graduated in the literary course with the class of 1900. He continued his college career in the law department of Harvard University, where he graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1903. For the following year Mr. Perry had the exceptional advantages of association with the law firm of Winston, Payne & Strawn, one of the strongest law firms of the City of Chicago, and thus possessed of a very liberal education and after a valuable apprenticeship in practice he located and began his individual career in Coffeyville, Kansas. He continued there in the practice of law until 1906, and then removed to Tulsa, which in that year was just beginning its phenomenal growth. Mr. Perry has since controlled a substantial general practice. 
He is a member of several college fraternities, belongs to the Tulsa County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association, while his fraternities are Tulsa Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A. M.; Tulsa Chapter, R. A. M.; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar; Akdar Temple of the Mystic Shrine; Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E. Politically Mr. Perry is a republican. On October 3, 1910, he married Miss Pauline NELSON, who was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter, Mary Pauline. 
Transcribed by Lee Ann Collins, January 1, 2000