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FRED GRIEVES PERROTT
A member of the Union High School
Board, who is highly esteemed because of his pronounced stand in favor of
better facilities for popular education, is Fred Grieves Perrott, the
vineyardist of Woodbridge, who has eighty acres of fine land. He was born on the home ranch in 1866, the
son of John Perrott, a native of London, England, who had married Miss Anne
Jane Grieves, a native of Massachusetts.
Although born in England, his father was really of Irish descent, and coming
to California in the famous year of the Argonauts, he went to the mines along
the Mokelumne River. He had reached
California by way of the Isthmus route but, having returned east, he came out
to California again in 1853, this time traversing the Great Plains. Soon after their arrival here, the eldest
son, James, was born, now residing at Stockton.
George, the second in the family of eight, died when
he was thirty-seven years old.
John lives at Lodi; Ellen passed away in her twelfth year; Belle is now
Mrs. Leckebusch, and lives on the old home ranch;
Frank lives at Woodbridge; our subject was the seventh child; Emma has become
Mrs. Smith of Oroville.
Fred Perrott attended the grammar
school at Woodbridge, and then went to the San Joaquin Valley College at the
same time. After his school days were
over, Mr. Perrott took work with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. He spent two years at Hanford and two years
at Lodi, and there he was assistant agent.
At Woodland, on October 25, 1895,
Mr. Perrott was married to Miss Mamie Bourland, who was born near Stockton, the
daughter of F. L. and Emma Bourland, both early settlers of California. Mrs. Perrott had also attended the San
Joaquin Valley College. After their
fortunate marriage, Mr. Perrott leased his father’s ranch for a short time, until
his father divided that part of his estate among his several children, when our
subject received some eighty acres as his share. About 1905 his mother died, and four years
later the elder Mr. Perrott followed his devoted wife to the grave, aged seventy-five
years. These eighty inherited acres were
devoted to wheat, but Mr. Perrott gradually converted the land to vineyard
purposes, all under irrigation. A
Republican in national political affairs, Mr. Perrott has been on the Lodi
Union High School Board since the new high school was built in 1912. From 1911 to 1919 he served under J. W. Moore
as deputy county assessor for the Woodbridge district.
Mr. and Mrs. Perrott have a family
of three children: Margaret, Mildred and
Fred. He is a member and a past grand of
Woodbridge Lodge No. 98, I. O. O. F., and his father was also an Odd Fellow,
and in 1879 served as the noble grand of the lodge. Mr. Perrott was made a Mason in Woodbridge
Lodge No. 131, of which he is a past master.
He belongs to the Rebekahs, and Mrs. Perrott also is an active member,
and of the Eastern Star, and is a past noble grand of the Rebekah Lodge. Mr. Perrott years ago enjoyed popularity as a
professional baseball player, and as one of the pioneers of the national game,
he will go down in history. From 1885 to
1890 he played professional baseball and in 1890 was pitcher for the Stockton
Club of the California League. That year
Sacramento won the pennant, the clubs of Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento and
Stockton making up the organization.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1576. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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