Hi, Just joined your list and thought you all might find the following interesting. I
did. It was on the Tippecanoe County list.
Pat
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From: Adina Watkins Dyer <adyer(a)nfe.com>
To: INTIPPEC-L(a)rootsweb.com <INTIPPEC-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 8:17 PM
Subject: [INTIPPEC-L] AUGUSTUS S. PERET
Contributed by Charlene Saunders:
AUGUSTUS S. PERET, manufacturer of carriages and harness, is a native of Wayne County,
Indiana, born in Abingdon, July 28, 1834, a son of VICTOR and MARY (DISCHMACHER) PERET.
VICTOR PERET was a native of Corsica, born March 8, 1769, and was a solider under Napoleon
I., fighting with him at Lodi, and in many other battles as a member of Murat's
cavalry. He was in Egypt with his great commander, and bore the marks of many wounds on
his person. He was captured by the British after Napoleon's downfall, and was pressed
into the English service at Venice. He deserted and came to America, settling in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and was married in that county. He died in March, 1850,
and is buried at Abingdon, Indiana. His wife died many years previous. AUGUSTUS S.
PERET, whose name heads this sketch, was reared in his native county and there learned the
harness-maker's trade. He left Wayne County in 1854, going to Eaton, Ohio. He
remained at Eaton until 1864, when he ent!
ered the navy, and served on the gunboat Benton, under COMMODORE E. Y. MCCAULEY. After
the close of the war he came to LaFayette, and traveled in the interest of the carriage
trade for
Cincinnati houses until the spring of 1885, when he engaged in the
manufacture of carriages and harness at LaFayette, Indiana.
Politically MR. PERET votes independent of party ties. MRS. PERET was formerly MISS
LECOMTE, and is a native of America, but of French descent. MR. PERET is a member of the
Royal Arcanum and Purdue Council. (From) Biographical Record and Portrait Album of
Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
pp. 565-566