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JOHN PERROTT
San Joaquin County has been very
fortunate in the character and ability of the men who have assumed to guide her
financial institutions, prominent among whom may be rated John Perrott. He was born near Woodbridge, on the home
ranch, in 1858, the son of John and Ann (Greives) Perrott, the former a native of England, and the latter of
Massachusetts, and so grew up under the best of California conditions. As a pioneer of the sturdiest type, his father
crossed the Great Plains with ox teams in the famous Argonaut year of 1849, and
mined in Calaveras County. He returned east
and then came back to California in 1853, locating on a ranch near Woodbridge,
where he followed farming. Six children
are still living to honor this worthy couple, James R., John, Isabel, Frank,
Fred and Emma Perrott.
John Perrott attended the district
school as well as the Woodbridge Academy, and after that he took up farming on
the home ranch. In 1889, he entered
public life, when he became a deputy county assessor with headquarters at the
Court House. Later he served under Del Keagle in the County Auditor’s office, and his next public
work was as assistant to County Treasurer Nate
Nevin. Later he returned to the assessor’s
office, and following this service he became connected with the office of
auditor and recorder under the former combined office, and after that he became
the chief deputy auditor when the office of auditor was made separate and
distinct from the recorder’s office. On
resigning his chief deputyship to accept the position vacated by W. H. Lorenz,
cashier of the First National Bank of Lodi, the Stockton Record of Stockton
said: “Few men, if any, in San Joaquin County
are better known than Mr. Perrott, who has been in public life at intervals
since 1889, for throughout his public service he has been a painstaking,
conscientious public servant, kindly and courteous, ever willing to be of
assistance to anyone having business with his office, and a host of friends
throughout San Joaquin County will wish him every success and happiness in his
new field, and will congratulate the institution which has secured his
services.”
At San Francisco, in 1900, Mr.
Perrott was married to Miss Clara Duff, a native of California, and a talented,
charming lady who also has her wide circle of friends. Mr. and Mrs. Perrott own a ranch of eighty
acres two and one-half miles west of Lodi, which he has developed into a fine
vineyard, having fifty acres of producing vines. Mr. Perrott belongs to Lodi Lodge No. 256, F.
& A. M., and to the Royal Arch, No. 28, of Stockton.
Transcribed by Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
755-756. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 Gerald Iaquinta.
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