Biography of Gustavus T. Perry, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Perry, Cooper, Feniel, Odeneal.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 317

Gustavus T. Perry

The popular hotel man and prosperous farmer and stock-raiser whose career it
is now our task to outline in brief, was born in Green county, Illinois, in
1835, the son of William and Mary (Cooper) Perry, natives respectively of
Virginia and Kentucky. In 1836 he was taken by parents to Missouri, where he
grew to manhood and where he lived for a number of years after man's estate
had been reached. He was connected with his father in the management and
cultivation of a three-hundred-acre ranch until he became thirty-three years
of age, then he engaged in farming on his own account, continuing to employ
himself thus until 1886, when he crossed the continent to Eagle valley, in
Baker county. For a time after his arrival he farmed in company with his
brother-in-law, J. B. Feniel, in the upper part of the valley near where
Newbridge post-office now is, but in 1890 he bought sixty acres within the
townsite of Richland, where we now find him. He has been engaged principally
in farming and stock-raising since this last change of residence, as he was
before, but for the last six years he has maintained a hotel in connection
with his other enterprises, known as the Perry house.

Mention should be made of the fact that our subject was a soldier in the
Confederate army during the war of the Rebellion, and served for two years as
a member of Sterling's and Price's escorts, then on General Shelby's escort,
the time of his entire service aggregating four years and one month, or about
the entire time during which hostilities lasted. He was faithful and efficient
in support of the cause which seemed to him to be right, and possessed, no
doubt, his full share of the dash, daring and vigor which characterized the
southern armies.

In 1870 our subject married Miss Susan, daughter of Zacariah and Sarah
(Odeneal) Feniel, natives of North Carolina, and to this union seven children
have been born: Ida, deceased; Waldo, a resident of Union county; Charles, at
home; Edgar, at home; John, at home; Bessie, deceased; and Eula, at home. Mr.
Perry handles about one hundred head of fine cattle.