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EDWIN R. PERRY
VOL. 3, p.1139

As a vigorous and ambitious lawyer, representing the best ideals of
the modern legal fraternity, Edwin R. Perry for nearly ten years has
had a successful career and one of great promise at Tulsa. The
qualities of a fine mind, the endowments of a natural orator and
leader among men, and a steady and persevering industry have brought
Mr. Perry well to the top of his profession.

He is a native of Canada, born at Granton, Ontario, March 4, 1874, a
son of William and Barbara (LEGGE) Perry. His father was born in
Tyrone County in the North of Ireland, and died at the age of
seventy-seven years in 1905 in Neepawa, Canada. His mother was born in
Canada of Scotch parentage and died in 1903. They had ten children,
two of whom died in infancy, while all the others are still living.
William Perry, the father, came to Canada at the age of twenty-one,
locating in Middlesex County, Ontario, where he became a pioneer and
hewed a farm from out the wilderness. He continued as a general farmer
until 1891, and then moved out to the frontier, in Manitoba, where he
bought a large tract of land, and became extensively engaged in the
wheat raising. In 1903 after the death of his wife, he retired, and
lived in Neepawa until he lost his life as the result of an accident.

Edwin R. Perry, who was the sixth child in the family of the parents,
received some training in the public schools of Canada, and then
entered the Evanston Academy at Evanston, Illinois, and after
preparing for college became a student in the Northwestern University
at the same place, where he was graduated in the literary course with
the class of 1900. He continued his college career in the law
department of Harvard University, where he graduated with the degree
of LL. B. in 1903. For the following year Mr. Perry had the
exceptional advantages of association with the law firm of Winston,
Payne & Strawn, one of the strongest law firms of the City of Chicago,
and thus possessed of a very liberal education and after a valuable
apprenticeship in practice he located and began his individual career
in Coffeyville, Kansas. He continued there in the practice of law
until 1906, and then removed to Tulsa, which in that year was just
beginning its phenomenal growth. Mr. Perry has since controlled a
substantial general practice.

He is a member of several college fraternities, belongs to the Tulsa
County Bar Association, the Oklahoma State Bar Association, while his
fraternities are Tulsa Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A. M.; Tulsa Chapter, R.
A. M.; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar; Akdar Temple of the Mystic
Shrine; Tulsa Lodge No. 946, B. P. O. E. Politically Mr. Perry is a
republican. On October 3, 1910, he married Miss Pauline NELSON, who
was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania. They have one daughter, Mary
Pauline.

Transcribed by Lee Ann Collins, January 1, 2000.