[p. 940] a successful physician and surgeon, at New Castle, where he has been established in his profession ever since receiving his university diploma, was born at New Castle, Pennsylvania, in 1874, and is a son of the late Samuel Perry, who was a native of Ireland and for fifty years was engaged in a grocery business in this city.
Dr. Perry was reared and primarily educated in the excellent schools of New Castle, and later entered upon the study of medicine under a local practitioner. From private studies he entered the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and subsequently became a student in the Jefferson College, where he was graduated in 1899. He is a member of the Physicians' Club, the Lawrence County and the State Medical Societies, together with the American Medical Association, keeping thus in close touch with the modern lines of scientific thought and progress connected with his profession.
In 1901, Dr. Perry was married to Clara Louise Long, who is a daughter of Hon. S. D. Long, of New Castle, and they have two sons—David Long and Samuel Wesley. Dr. and Mrs. Perry are members of the First Presbyterian Church. The doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Lawrence Club.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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