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OLIVER CLINTON PERRY, ex-Auditor; Greenville. The subject of this memoir was born in Miami Co., Ohio, Feb. 28, 1830, and is a son of Nathan W. and Isabella (Buchanan) Perry, who moved their family to Darke Co., and located in Washington Township, in September, 1838, where they settled in the midst of comparatively early settlers, who were struggling with poverty and heavy timber. Oliver, with other children of that portion of the county, had poor advantages of an early education, but, by close application to his studies when an opportunity offered, acquired a good common-school education that enabled him to engage in school teaching when quite young, and for several years he was employed as salesman in the dry-goods business; he served as Deputy Clerk of the Court in 1867, and was elected Auditor and served in said office for nearly five years. During his term of office the system of building free turnpikes was inaugurated, and over thirty miles built in the county. The county jail was also built, and the contracting, and the greater part of the present court house was constructed, in all of which improvements he took a deep interest and active part, being friendly to and indorsing the great improvements of the county. In politics he is a strong Democrat, from both education and honest conviction; during the rebellion he denounced secession and advocated a vigorous prosecution of the war for the restoration of the Union.