Mendocino County Biographies

A. C. Perry

Transcribed by: Pat Howard

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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	Was born in Indiana October 17, 1838. When he was six years of age 
his mother moved to Missouri, his father having died previously. Here he 
received his education and learned the saddler�s trade, which he followed until 
1854, when he crossed the plains to California. He spent most of the next two 
years in Nevada county, and in 1856 returned to Missouri via Panama. In the 
following spring he returned to California, crossing the plains the second time, 
bringing with him his mother and several other relatives. He located in Sonoma 
county, and in the spring of 1858 he came to Mendocino county, and settled in 
Potter valley. At the end of a year he returned to Sonoma county and remained 
there till 1862. He then came to Mendocino county and settled in Ukiah where he 
opened a saddle and harness shop. At the end of eighteen months he moved to 
Round valley, where he remained eleven years. In 1878 he returned to Ukiah and 
opened the Ukiah livery stable, which he has since conducted. He was married, 
August 9, 1866, to Miss Susan A. Shores, a native of Missouri. Their children 
are: William, Minnie M., Nannie E., James, and Walter.
 
SOURCE: History of Mendocino County, California - San Francisco, Cal. Alley, 
Bowen & Co., Publishers. 1880 Pp. 659