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Perry, Mrs. Lilla Cabot

author.

She published a volume entitled The Heart of the Weed.

Perry, Madison S

governor. He was governor of Florida from 1857 to

Perry, Mary Alice

author, was born in 1854 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of fiction; and the author of Esther Pennefather; and More Ways Than One. She died in 1883.

Perry, Matthew Calbraith

naval officer, was born about 1821. He was made a lieutenant in 1848, and served for several years on the coast survey. After various services he was placed on the retired list, receiving his commission as captain in 1867. He died Nov. 16, 1873, in New York city.

Perry, Nehemiah

manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 30, 1816, in Ridgefield, Conn. He was for many years the presiding member of the common council of Newark, N. J.; and served a number of years in the legislature of that state. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the thirty-seventh congress; and was elected to the thirty-eighth congress. re-

Perry, Rufus Lewis

clergyman, linguist, author, was born in 1833, in Tennessee. He was a baptist clergyman of African descent, widely known as a linguist. Among his various writings is The Cushite, or the Children of Ham as seen by Ancient Historians and Poets. He died in 1895.

Perry, Thomas

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Maryland. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847; and was a circuit judge from 1851 to 1861, and from 1864 to 1871. He died June 27, 1871, in Cumberland, Md.

Perry, Thomas Sergeant

educator, author, was born Jan. 23, 1845, in Newport, R. I. He is an educator of Bostcn; and the author of English Literature in the Eighteenth Century; Life of Lieber; From Opitz to Lessing, a Study of Pseudo-Classicism in Literature; The Evolution of the Snob; and History of Greek Literature.

Perry, William

lawyer, jurist. In 1790 he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory lying south of the Ohio river.

Perry, William

manufacturer, surgeon, physician, was born Dec. 20, 1788, in Norton, Mass. He discovered the true character of British gum, or charred potato starch, which was formerly used largely as sizing in cotton mills, and liable to heavy duty. He engaged in its manufacture at Exeter from 1828 till 1835. He died Jan. 11, 1887, in Exeter, N. H.

Perry, William F

railroad president, was born Feb. 1, 1826, in Bridgton, Maine. Since 1882 he has been president of the Bridgton and Saco River railroad.

Perry, William Stevens

bishop, author, was born Jan. 22, 1832, in Rhode Island. He is the second protestant episcopal bishop of Iowa; and prominent among high churchmen. He is the author of The Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church; The History of the American Episcopal Church; Life Lessons from the Book of Proverbs; Some Summer Days Abroad; The General Ecclesiastical Constitution of the American Church; and The American Episcopate.