Henry J. Perry Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Platteville, Biographical Sketches, Page 916

HENRY J. PERRY, Sec. 3; P. O. Platteville; was born September, 1834, in 
Carnarvonshire, Wales, where his father, John Perry, died two years later; the 
mother and eight children came to America in 1846, and located in Oneida Co., N. 
Y.; H. J. Perry spent several years in New York City; then, going to Princeton, 
N. J., he married Maggie Blair, and after a residence of ten years there went to 
Pennsylvania, where he spent a year; in 1866, he came to Platteville and bought 
his present farm; he now owns eighty-five acres in the homestead, and eighty in 
Lima; has no children; member of the Baptist Church; the mother of Mr. Perry is 
one of the oldest persons now living in Grant Co. ; she is in her 89th year and, 
though helpless, has a clear mind.