Samuel Marshall Perry (1836–1898) was a member of the
Los Angeles Common Council
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between 1878 and 1888 and of the
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
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History
On April 1, 1850 the citizens of Los Angeles elected a three-man Court of Se ...
from 1889 to 1893. He was
County Chair when the Los Angeles county courthouse was built.
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Perry, who was referred to in the press as S. M. Perry, was born in ]Venango County, Pennsylvania
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, on May 12, 1836, and lived in Piqua, Ohio
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, before coming to Marysville, California
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, in 1860, where he was in the hardware business, which he left in favor of a gold rush
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to the John Day River country in Oregon. After returning to the East for several years, he went back to Los Angeles
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in 1875.[
A Republican, he was elected to the City Council in 1878 and reelected in 1886. He was elected to the Board of Supervisors from the Second District in 1888.][
The son of John Perry of Venango County, Maine, Perry was married to Hattie Sargent in ]Coles County, Illinois
Coles County is a county in Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,863. Its county seat is Charleston, which is also the home of Eastern Illinois University.
Coles County is part of the Charleston– Mattoon, IL Micropolitan ...
, on December 25, 1868.[
Perry, owner of a ]plumbing
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business at 80 South Main Street, went into insolvency
In accounting, insolvency is the state of being unable to pay the debts, by a person or company ( debtor), at maturity; those in a state of insolvency are said to be ''insolvent''. There are two forms: cash-flow insolvency and balance-sheet i ...
in July 1891.
He died at his home, 1952 Lovelace Avenue, Los Angeles, on July 21, 1898, leaving his widow, three sons, and a daughter. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.["Death of S.M. Perry," ''The Evening Express,'' July 22, 1898, image 8]
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External links
Lengthy classified advertisement describing his company
References
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Los Angeles Common Council (1850–1889) members
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
1836 births
1898 deaths
Politicians from Venango County, Pennsylvania
People from Marysville, California
Burials at Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles