Perry and his twin, brother, Carey, were named after a pioneer blacksmith and his wife. Both Perry and Carey were well known all over Marion County in which they lived.
Perry owned and managed a grocery business and at age 75 was as spry as an ordinary man twenty five years his junior. When asked about his age on his 75th birthday, Perry said, "I cannot realize that I am old. I well remember long ago, when a neighbor celebrated his fiftieth birthday,and I wondered that a man could be so ancient."
Perry was born on his father's farm at Eagle Creek, near Maywood. There were no roads, not even a trail to the cluster of small houses called Indianapolis. He remembered distinctly how the forest had to be threaded by means of the deer runs.
"I remember seeing droves of deer feeding in the woods, and we did not have to go off our farm to obtain all the venison we needed for our table," he said.
Perry's uncle ran a flatboat from a point just below Indianapolis to New Orleans, carrying hogs to that market and returning with goods that could not be found in their part of the country. "Neither iron nor salt could be obtained here," Mr. Hoover says, "and these articles were purchased in Cincinnati, a trip being made every year."
Perry remembers well his first trip to Indianapolis. A road, or rather a trail, had been opened through woods to Indianapolis, and he brought a few bushels of wheat to be ground at at the Underhill mill on South Meridian street. The roads were so bad that four horses had to be used in hauling five bushels of wheat.
Money was exceedingly scarce in the early days and his father paid for his farm by hauling gravel to the old National road in Indianapolis.
"I attended the first State Fair held in Indiana," said Mr. Hoover. "It was held at Military Park, a tract of thickly covered forest land, and the fair was better than any that I have seen recently. There was no racing, nor gambling, but what then was considered to be a great show of agriculture products."
In his early years, the entire county was covered with a magnificent forest, there being unbroken tracts of black walnut and oak trees. So plentiful were the walnut trees that he made an entire rail fence and built a barn with the timber.
Excerpts from September 13, 1903 newspaper (name unknown).
Perry owned and managed a grocery business and at age 75 was as spry as an ordinary man twenty five years his junior. When asked about his age on his 75th birthday, Perry said, "I cannot realize that I am old. I well remember long ago, when a neighbor celebrated his fiftieth birthday,and I wondered that a man could be so ancient."
Perry was born on his father's farm at Eagle Creek, near Maywood. There were no roads, not even a trail to the cluster of small houses called Indianapolis. He remembered distinctly how the forest had to be threaded by means of the deer runs.
"I remember seeing droves of deer feeding in the woods, and we did not have to go off our farm to obtain all the venison we needed for our table," he said.
Perry's uncle ran a flatboat from a point just below Indianapolis to New Orleans, carrying hogs to that market and returning with goods that could not be found in their part of the country. "Neither iron nor salt could be obtained here," Mr. Hoover says, "and these articles were purchased in Cincinnati, a trip being made every year."
Perry remembers well his first trip to Indianapolis. A road, or rather a trail, had been opened through woods to Indianapolis, and he brought a few bushels of wheat to be ground at at the Underhill mill on South Meridian street. The roads were so bad that four horses had to be used in hauling five bushels of wheat.
Money was exceedingly scarce in the early days and his father paid for his farm by hauling gravel to the old National road in Indianapolis.
"I attended the first State Fair held in Indiana," said Mr. Hoover. "It was held at Military Park, a tract of thickly covered forest land, and the fair was better than any that I have seen recently. There was no racing, nor gambling, but what then was considered to be a great show of agriculture products."
In his early years, the entire county was covered with a magnificent forest, there being unbroken tracts of black walnut and oak trees. So plentiful were the walnut trees that he made an entire rail fence and built a barn with the timber.
Excerpts from September 13, 1903 newspaper (name unknown).
Perry and his twin, brother, Carey, were named after a pioneer blacksmith and his wife. Both Perry and Carey were well known all over Marion County in which they lived.
Perry owned and managed a grocery business and at age 75 was as spry as an ordinary man twenty five years his junior. When asked about his age on his 75th birthday, Perry said, "I cannot realize that I am old. I well remember long ago, when a neighbor celebrated his fiftieth birthday,and I wondered that a man could be so ancient."
Perry was born on his father's farm at Eagle Creek, near Maywood. There were no roads, not even a trail to the cluster of small houses called Indianapolis. He remembered distinctly how the forest had to be threaded by means of the deer runs.
"I remember seeing droves of deer feeding in the woods, and we did not have to go off our farm to obtain all the venison we needed for our table," he said.
Perry's uncle ran a flatboat from a point just below Indianapolis to New Orleans, carrying hogs to that market and returning with goods that could not be found in their part of the country. "Neither iron nor salt could be obtained here," Mr. Hoover says, "and these articles were purchased in Cincinnati, a trip being made every year."
Perry remembers well his first trip to Indianapolis. A road, or rather a trail, had been opened through woods to Indianapolis, and he brought a few bushels of wheat to be ground at at the Underhill mill on South Meridian street. The roads were so bad that four horses had to be used in hauling five bushels of wheat.
Money was exceedingly scarce in the early days and his father paid for his farm by hauling gravel to the old National road in Indianapolis.
"I attended the first State Fair held in Indiana," said Mr. Hoover. "It was held at Military Park, a tract of thickly covered forest land, and the fair was better than any that I have seen recently. There was no racing, nor gambling, but what then was considered to be a great show of agriculture products."
In his early years, the entire county was covered with a magnificent forest, there being unbroken tracts of black walnut and oak trees. So plentiful were the walnut trees that he made an entire rail fence and built a barn with the timber.
Excerpts from September 13, 1903 newspaper (name unknown).
Perry owned and managed a grocery business and at age 75 was as spry as an ordinary man twenty five years his junior. When asked about his age on his 75th birthday, Perry said, "I cannot realize that I am old. I well remember long ago, when a neighbor celebrated his fiftieth birthday,and I wondered that a man could be so ancient."
Perry was born on his father's farm at Eagle Creek, near Maywood. There were no roads, not even a trail to the cluster of small houses called Indianapolis. He remembered distinctly how the forest had to be threaded by means of the deer runs.
"I remember seeing droves of deer feeding in the woods, and we did not have to go off our farm to obtain all the venison we needed for our table," he said.
Perry's uncle ran a flatboat from a point just below Indianapolis to New Orleans, carrying hogs to that market and returning with goods that could not be found in their part of the country. "Neither iron nor salt could be obtained here," Mr. Hoover says, "and these articles were purchased in Cincinnati, a trip being made every year."
Perry remembers well his first trip to Indianapolis. A road, or rather a trail, had been opened through woods to Indianapolis, and he brought a few bushels of wheat to be ground at at the Underhill mill on South Meridian street. The roads were so bad that four horses had to be used in hauling five bushels of wheat.
Money was exceedingly scarce in the early days and his father paid for his farm by hauling gravel to the old National road in Indianapolis.
"I attended the first State Fair held in Indiana," said Mr. Hoover. "It was held at Military Park, a tract of thickly covered forest land, and the fair was better than any that I have seen recently. There was no racing, nor gambling, but what then was considered to be a great show of agriculture products."
In his early years, the entire county was covered with a magnificent forest, there being unbroken tracts of black walnut and oak trees. So plentiful were the walnut trees that he made an entire rail fence and built a barn with the timber.
Excerpts from September 13, 1903 newspaper (name unknown).
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