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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [399-400]

           DIOGNESS PERRY, farmer, section 1, Caseville Township, was born
        in 1817, in Aberdeen, Scotland, and is the son of WILLIAM and ANN
        (DUNCAN) PERRY.  His father died in his infancy.  The demise of his
        mother occurred when he was three years old, and when he was four
        years old he came to America with his uncle, DIOGNESS DUNCAN.  They
        landed at Quebec and proceeded to Guelph, that province, where MR.
        DUNCAN bought a farm.  MR. PERRY worked on a farm, and also gave
        his attention to stone-cutting.  He worked at the latter business
        until he was 18 years of age, when he proceeded to Akron, Ohio.
        He obtained employment on the Wabash & Ohio Canal, and operated in
        cutting stone for locks about three years.  He went thence to
        Maumee, where he found employment on the public works. He kept his
        purpose of finding a location for a home in view, and later went by
        way of Detroit to Canada, with a friend who had determined to buy a
        farm in the Dominion and wished MR. PERRY to locate near him; but
        the latter did not comply with the desire. He became acquainted
        with an English farmer named WM. FLETCHER, at Bear Creek, who hired
        him as a farm assistant, and he continued in the same service nine
        consecutive years. He went at the end of that time to Guelph to
        visit his uncle, with whom he stayed a year. He accepted a propo-
        sition from his former employer, MR. FLETCHER, to again enter his
        service, and he worked for him two years, finally devoting his
        earnings to the purchase of a farm lying next to that of MR.
        FLETCHER.  His next imperative business was the selection of a home
        partner, and he returned to Bear Creek, where he was married, in
        1859, to ANN McCAULEY.  They have had four sons and two daughters,
        WILLIAM, ROBERT, JOHN, AGNES, ELIZA and SHERMAN.  The parents of
        MRS. PERRY, ROBERT and ANN McCAULEY, died in Ontario.
           After his marriage, MR. PERRY took possession of his farm; but
        on the breaking out of the civil war in the States and during its
        progress, the influx of negroes into that part of Canada conflicted
        with his tastes, and he sold his farm, in 1865. He came at once to
        Huron Co., Mich., and bought a quarter-section of Government land
        in Caseville Township, where he has since operated.  He has now
        about 70 acres of land.
           He is a Democrat in political persuasion, and has officiated as
        Constable of his township and in other official positions.  With
        his wife, he belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

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