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ISRAEL K. PERRY, proprietor of the New York Store, was born in South Manchester, Hartford county, Conn., March 4, 1815. His parents, Joseph and Lydia (Kellogg) Perry, were natives of Massachusetts and Connecticut. His father was born about the year 1784, and died in Aug., 1819; his mother was born in 1785 and died in 1871. Our subject grew to maturity in the county of his nativity, and acquired a good education in the common and higher schools. When sixteen years of age he commenced to learn the trade of carriage-making; at twenty-one he engaged at his trade, working in different cities for several years. In April, 1838, he came to Illinois, engaging at his trade and in the grocery business at Jacksonville for some time. He returned east, and for sixteen years worked at his trade in Hartford and Manchester, Conn., New York City, and other cities. In 1850 he came west again to Illinois, and some months after to Kansas, locating near Topeka, where he commenced farming and raising stock. Continuing for a time, he went to Waubansee county, same state, and farmed five years; thence to Manhattan, where he engaged at trade for three years. He came to Joplin in June, 1877, and mined for a time. In Sept., 1881, he embarked in the mercantile business, and has since continued it. Mr. Perry was married in Connecticut May 10, 1837, to Miss Jane Walker, of the same state. Mrs. Perry was born Oct. 5, 1817, and died Jan. 6, 1876. There were four children from this union: Eliza J., born Feb. 29, 1840; Isabella, born in March, 1848; Elizabeth, born Oct. 2, 1853; and one died in infancy. Our subject was again married in Manhattan, Kan., May 31, 1877, to Mrs. Harriet V. Werden, daughter of Wm. Jackson, formerly of New York. They have one child, Helen G., born Dec. 25, 1878. Mrs. P. is a member of the M. E. Church.