In a message dated 1/23/99 1:01:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, JanisAdams
writes:
<< Chris,
Thank you for the index -- what a monumental task!
When you have time, please let me know about
PERRIN, Aaron p. 834
PERRIN, Solomon p. 834
Sincerely,
Janis Adams
Mason, OH >>
Hi Janis,
HENRY C. PERRIN, a highly respected citizen of Edna Mills, Ross township,
Clinton county, Ind., is descended from a Puritan family of English origin,
who on coming to America first settled in Connecticut. Solomon Perrin, the
father of Henry C., was married to Sarah Bott, daughter of a sea captain of
Scotch descent. Solomon Perrin, after his marriage, settled in Bedford county,
Va., where his wife inherited 1,000 acres of land and several slaves, but this
property Mr. Perrin sold or exchanged and moved to New Orleans, where he died
of cholera at the age of about forty-eight years. He and wife were parents of
eight children, named as follows: William, Aaron, Mary, Eliza, John, Harriet,
Henry C. and James, all natives of Bedford county, Va. After the death of her
husband, Mrs. Perrin moved to Botetourt county, Va., where she passed the
remainder of her life, dying at the age of fifty-seven years.
Henry C. Perrin was born January 11, 1825, received a fair education in his
native county of Bedford, and November 23, 1843, was married in Botetourt
county, Va., to Miss Susan Secrist, daughter of Daniel and Mary (Flora)
Secrist, of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction. In February, 1845, Mr. Perrin, with
his wife and only child, moved to Breckinridge county, Ky., and located on a
part of his mother's estate, where he remained until July, 1845, when he came
to Indiana and settled in Ross township, Clinton county, bringing all his
earthly effects in a one-horse wagon. He erected a log cabin and cleared up a
farm on which he lived until 1851, when he bought eighty acres one mile south
of Edna Mills. To this property he added thirty acres, and then sold and
purchased 160 acres three-quarters of a mile east of Edna Mills, and to this
property he added until he became the owner of 400 acres, 260 of which he has
given his children, of whom he is the father of eight, named as follows:
Eliza A., Sarah, Mary J., Harriet E., Enna, Charles, who died from an accident
at the age of fourteen years; Allen, who died when two years old, and Byron,
who died in infancy. Of these children, Eliza married Coulter; Mollie married
Samuel Hurley; Sarah married Milton Hockman; Elizabeth married Isaac
Horlacher; Enna married Amos Sigler. In 1893, Mr. Perrin retired from active
labor and is now residing at Edna Mills, respected by the whole community.
The greatest part of Mr. Perrin's wealth, it will be seen, is the result of
his own unaided industry, for which he deserves great credit.
Transcribed by Chris Brown from page 834 of "A Portrait And Biographical
Record of Boone and Clinton Counties, Ind.," published in 1895 by A.W. Bowen &
Co. Chicago.