Perry family diaries

Deloss Perry, farmer, stock raiser and representative citizen, was a native of Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He spent his youth and early manhood in his native state, attending the public schools of Bradford County. He remained on the home farm and assisted to cultivate the same until his twenty-fourth year, and married Melvina Bennett, of Tioga, Pennsylvania, after which he purchased a small farm and engaged in the pursuit of agriculture for himself. Four years later he came to Minnehaha county, South Dakota, and entering a quarter section of land, lived on the same until he removed to a claim in the county of Kingsbury. Mr. Perry brought with him a good team of horses, a number of cattle and after building a small board house was better fixed for farming than the majority of his neighbors. Mr. Perry persevered in his attempts to found a home and get a start in the west and how well he succeeded is attested by his large farm and live-stock interests and the prominent position he occupied among the leading agriculturists and stock raisers of Kingsbury county. He owned one of the finest and most valuable farms in this part of the state, besides a large amount of excellent grazing land and kept on his place at all times blooded horses, cattle, sheep and the best breed of hogs. He was also engaged in the dairying business, this as well as his other enterprises proving quite profitable. Mr. and Mrs. Perry had five children. In politics Mr. Perry formerly supported the Republican party. He was a member of the Pyramids, a fraternal organization, and with his wife and family belonged to the Congregational church.