Biographies
EMANUEL D. PERRY
Prominent
among the most popular leaders in the fraternal world in northern California
may well be mentioned Emanuel D. Perry, secretary of the Loyal Order of Moose,
no. 1020, of Sacramento, a native Bostonian, having been born at the Hub on
March 22, 1866. He was apprenticed to
learn the printer’s trade, and came to California in 1883, at the age of
seventeen. He had two uncles in Kern
County, who were sheep- and cattle-men; and after spending five months in their
employ, he went to San Francisco for one and one-half years, and then to the
mines, in Placer County, trying his luck at both Forest Hill and Iowa Hill.
Coming
to Sacramento in 1910, he followed carpenter work for four years, and in 1914
he was appointed janitor of the Sacramento high school, which position he now
holds. He knows his business thoroughly,
makes it a point to place his duties as janitor above all else, and therefore
both to be punctual and dependable, and so enjoys the confidence of all who
have to do with him, he being as popular with the youth as with the faculty and
other officers.
Mr.
Perry has been very active in the Moose Lodge, and was one of the organizers of
Lodge no. 1020, which was started with fifty-four members, and now has six
hundred. He was elected outer guard, and
in 1917 was made secretary of the lodge, and has been a big factor in the
building of the order. On September 4,
1921, he organized the second degree of the Moose, which corresponds to the
Shrine degree in Masonry; he was told that this could not be accomplished, but
he nevertheless succeeded. The new
organization includes twelve bodies in the Valley, and represents a total
membership of 167. A movement is on foot
to build a home, at a cost of $200,000, for the Moose order in Sacramento, and
this will doubtless succeed, with such men as E. D. Perry behind it. Mr. Perry has also been a member of the
Knights of Pythias for twenty-one years, and in that
circle he enjoys the same enviable popularity.
Our
subject was married at Iowa Hill, in Placer County, in the year 1894, to Miss Albena Rossi, a native of Placer County and a member of a
well-known pioneer family; and two sons have blessed the union. Russell M Perry, aged twenty-two, is an
employee of the D. O. Mills Bank, of Sacramento; and Francis J., aged eighteen,
is with the Capital Cracker and Candy Company, of Sacramento.
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker.
Source:
Reed, G. Walter, History of Sacramento County, California With Biographical
Sketches, Pages 485-486.
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA. 1923.
©
2007 Donna L. Becker.