Solano County Biographies

AARON PERIN

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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was born on March 4, 1806, and has a twin brother, Moses, who is living thirty 
miles back of Sandiago, Cayuga county, New York, where he resided till 1810, 
when he with his parents sailed down the Ohio and located in Madison, ten miles 
from Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until 1814; thence he went to Fayette 
county, Indiana, near Cannonsville, where he lived till about 1840; after which 
he removed to Scott county, Iowa, and remained there until 1846, when he went to 
Dubuque, where he worked at the trade of blacksmith.  On February 24, 1852, he, 
with his family, started for California across the plains, and arrived in 
Benicia early in October of same year, continuing his trade until 1877, when he 
retired into private life.  Mr. Perin married Elizabeth Simpson, March 3, 1825, 
she being born in Kentucky, and died May 6, 1847, in Dubuque, Iowa, by whom he 
had eight children:  Mary, born November 16, 1829; Zackariah Taylor, born April 
18, 1847, still living; Rachel, Simpson, John A., William, Theodore, Isaac, 
deceased.  Mr. Perin married his second wife, Mrs. Lucy A. McMan, December 19, 
1847, she being born August 27, 1808, but whom he has no family.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 447