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M. B. Perdue, a well known farmer of the Tenth District, was born-September 12, 1846, in the northern portion of Sumner County. He is one of nine children of Green P. and Matilda J. (Mattox) Perdue. The father was born in 1814 near our subject’s home. At the age of twenty-six he married and settled on a farm given him by his father, near the homestead, where he died in 1884. His wife was born in the same vicinity, and now resides on the farm where Mr. Perdue died. Our subject was educated at Cross Plains, Robertson Co., Tenn. After attaining his majority, he taught winter school for seven years and farmed in the summer. In 1877 he sold a 200 acre farm which had been given him by his father, and purchased 100 acres seven miles northeast of Gallatin, where he has since devoted his time to agricultural pursuits. In 1871 he wedded Zoeintha, daughter of Rodney B. and Polly Durham, of Sumner County. Three sons and three daughters have been born to this union: Cotton Warren, Daisy A., Green, Erma Queen, Herbert Rodney and Virgil Blair. Ada Marshall died in 1876, in infancy. Our subject has been for several years a successful stock dealer and farmer. His place, which contains 350 acres, is highly cultivated and improved. He is a stanch Democrat, and is connected with the Masonic order and Bethpage Lodge. He and his wife are consistent and esteemed members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.