BIOGRAPHIES:  Thomas E. PERRY, Chetek Township, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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Thomas E. Perry, a modern farmer of Section 27, east, Chetek Township, was
born near Augusta, in Eau Claire County, Wis., Sept. 26, 1876, the son of
William F. and Sarah (Helegar) Perry. These good people were natives
respectively of Canada and of New York State. They came west as young
people, were married in Augusta, and spent the remainder of their lives as
Eau Claire County farmers. Thomas E. was the third of five children. He
attended the district school at Otter Creek, in his native county, and grew
up on the farm. At the age of twenty-one, he went to Eau Claire, and
entered the employ of a sawmill. A few years later he started work in a
flour mill there. In 1909 he came to Barron County and for two years worked
in the canning factory at Chetek. He bought his present farm of 100 acres
in 1911. It was then a well-improved place, and he has continued the
developments, erecting two silos, and purchasing new equipment. Here he
carries on general farming, making a specialty of Jersey cattle,
Poland-China swine and good horses. Mr. Perry married Bertha Johnson, a
native of Norway, and this union has been blessed with six children:
Lawrence, Victor, Edgar, Leona, Ralph and Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. Perry take
their part in the social affairs of the community, they have a pleasant
home in which their friends and their childrens' friends are always made
welcome, and they are well liked by all who know them.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pg. 1004.


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