Logan County, West Virginia Biography of Cecil H. PERRY This file was submitted by Valerie Crook, E-mail address: The submitter does not have a connection to the sketch subject. This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm The History of West Virginia, Old and New Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, Volume III, pg. 264 Logan County CECIL H. PERRY was born in Logan County at a time when this famous coal district was hardly known to the world. He received a training that equipped him with the liighest degree of technical skill for service in the coal in- dustry, and as a civil and mining engineer returned to his native county a year or so ago and is now general superin- tendent for the Main Island Creek Coal Company at Stirrat on the Omar Branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Mr. Perry was born in Logan, May 22, 1886, son of N. F. and Ida (Gore) Perry. The Gores are an old West Virginia family. The Perry family were early settlers in the famous Pike County District of Missouri. N. F. Perry was born, however, in West Virginia, and served in the Confederate army, being a member of the regiment known as the Wild Cats. He was once wounded in the forearm, and subse- quently was captured and was held at Fort Donelson until 1866. He was a farmer by occupation. Cecil H. Perry attended common schools at Logan, and acquired his professional education in Columbia University of New York City, where he graduated civil engineer in 1907. As a civil engineer engaged in work of a mine en- gineer he spent two years in New Mexico with the Kooky Mountain and Pacific Coal Company. He then returned East and was at Washington from 1909 to 1912 as resident engineer for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. Returning to West Virginia, he became an engineer with. the Consoli- dated Coal Company at Fairmont, and served with this corporation successively as mining engineer, superintendent and finally as general superintendent until January, 1920, when he resigned and took up his present duties at Stirrat with the Main Island Creek Coal Company. He is general superintendent of mines Nos. 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 for this company. Mr. Perry was discouraged from army service during the war, since he was more useful to the Government in securing a maximum of coal production. On May 22, 1912, at Jackson, Kentucky, Mr. Perry mar- ried Miss Nancy E. Woodman, daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth (Combs) Woodman, both natives of Kentucky. Her father is a merchant at Hazard, that state. The two children born to their marriage are Mary Elizabeth and Paul. Mr. and Mrs. Perry are Baptists, and he is a Master Mason and is also affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias.