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Subject: [IOWA] 1903 Bio of William B. Perrin
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 07:36:24 EDT
William B. Perrin was born at Berlin, Vermont, January 19, 1839. His
education began in the public school and was continued in Barre Academy and Darmouth
College. His studies were interrupted by enlistment in the First Rhode Island
Cavalry, Company B, composed for the most part of college students. The
company was attached to the Army of the Potomac and saw service in the Shenandoah
Valley, the Antietam campaign and at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Parrin later
enlisted in the Third Vermont Light Battery, was in the campaign from the Wilderness
to Petersburg and at the surrender of the Confederate army under General Lee
at APpomattox. After the war Mr. Perrin continued his studies at Dartmouth,
graduating in 1866. He took a course of lectures at the Albany Law School in
1866-7, came to Iowa and entered the law office of Tracy and Newman at
Burlington. In 1868 he located at Nashua, in Chickasaw County which became his
permanent home. He is a veteran legislator, having served in the House of the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, and in the Senate of the
Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eight General Assemblies.
Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm
Gerischer Family Web Site:
http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/
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