San Joaquin County Biographies


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JOHN PERROTT.
 
        San Joaquin County has been very fortunate in the character and ability 
of the men who have assumed to guide her financial institutions, prominent among 
whom may be rated John Perrott. He was born near Woodbridge, on the home ranch, 
in 1858, the son of John and Ann (Greives) Perrott, the former a native of 
England, and the latter of Massachusetts, and so grew up under the best of 
California conditions. As a pioneer of the sturdiest type, his father crossed 
the great plains with ox teams in the famous Argonaut year of 1849, and mined in 
Calaveras County. He returned East and then came back to California in 1853, 
locating on a ranch near Woodbridge, where he followed farming. Six children are 
still living to honor this worthy couple; James R., John, Isabel, Frank, Fred 
and Emma Perrott.
        John Perrott attended the district school as well as the Woodbridge 
Academy, and after that he took up farming on the home ranch. In 1889, he 
entered public life, when he became a deputy county assessor with headquarters 
at the Court House. Later he served under Del Beagle in the County Auditor's 
office, and his next public work was as assistant to County Treasurer Nate 
Nevin. Later he returned to the assessor's office, and following this service he 
became connected with the office of auditor and recorder under the former 
combined office, and after that he became the chief deputy auditor when the 
office of auditor was made separate and distinct from the recorder's office. On 
resigning his chief deputyship to accept the position vacated by W. H. Lorenz, 
cashier of the First National Bank of Lodi, the Stockton Record of Stockton 
said: "Few men, if any, in San Joaquin County are better known than Mr. Perrott, 
who has been in public life at intervals since 1889, for throughout his public 
service he has been a painstaking, conscientious public servant, kindly and 
courteous, ever willing to be of assistance to anyone having business with his 
office, and a host of friends throughout San Joaquin County will wish him every 
success and happiness in his new field, and will congratulate the institution 
which has secured his services."
        At San Francisco, in 1900, Mr. Perrott was married to Miss Clara Duff, a 
native of California, and a talented, charming lady who also has her wide circle 
of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Perrott own a ranch of eighty acres two and one-half 
miles west of Lodi, which he has developed into a fine vineyard, having fifty 
acres of producing vines. Mr. Perrott belongs to Lodi Lodge No. 256, F. & A. M., 
and to the Royal Arch, No. 28, of Stockton.
 
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co., 
1923
p    755      
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.