Born in Berlin, Washington county, Vermont. He received his education at Boone Academy and Dartmouth College. In the latter institution he took the law course, and after graduation began the practice of his profession it his native town. At the call for troops to suppress the southern rebellion Mr. Perrin was not slow to respond, and he was enrolled in company B, 7th Rhode Island cavalry as a private, and was afterwards a lieutenant in the 3d Vermont volunteer battery. Like many other New England boys at the close of the war he came west and settled in Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he has since lived. In 1879 and 1881 he was honored with being elected to the House of the Iowa legislature, and has not aspired to office since that time until his successful canvass for Senatorial honors last fall. His fraternal connections are the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army. He is regular in his attendance on the Congregational church and is a bachelor.

Born in Berlin, Washington county, Vermont. He received his education at Boone Academy and Dartmouth College. In the latter institution he took the law course, and after graduation began the practice of his profession it his native town. At the call for troops to suppress the southern rebellion Mr. Perrin was not slow to respond, and he was enrolled in company B, 7th Rhode Island cavalry as a private, and was afterwards a lieutenant in the 3d Vermont volunteer battery. Like many other New England boys at the close of the war he came west and settled in Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he has since lived. In 1879 and 1881 he was honored with being elected to the House of the Iowa legislature, and has not aspired to office since that time until his successful canvass for Senatorial honors last fall. His fraternal connections are the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army. He is regular in his attendance on the Congregational church and is a bachelor.

Born in Berlin, Washington county, Vermont. He received his education at Boone Academy and Dartmouth College. In the latter institution he took the law course, and after graduation began the practice of his profession it his native town. At the call for troops to suppress the southern rebellion Mr. Perrin was not slow to respond, and he was enrolled in company B, 7th Rhode Island cavalry as a private, and was afterwards a lieutenant in the 3d Vermont volunteer battery. Like many other New England boys at the close of the war he came west and settled in Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he has since lived. In 1879 and 1881 he was honored with being elected to the House of the Iowa legislature, and has not aspired to office since that time until his successful canvass for Senatorial honors last fall. His fraternal connections are the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army. He is regular in his attendance on the Congregational church and is a bachelor.

Born in Berlin, Washington county, Vermont. He received his education at Boone Academy and Dartmouth College. In the latter institution he took the law course, and after graduation began the practice of his profession it his native town. At the call for troops to suppress the southern rebellion Mr. Perrin was not slow to respond, and he was enrolled in company B, 7th Rhode Island cavalry as a private, and was afterwards a lieutenant in the 3d Vermont volunteer battery. Like many other New England boys at the close of the war he came west and settled in Chickasaw county, Iowa, where he has since lived. In 1879 and 1881 he was honored with being elected to the House of the Iowa legislature, and has not aspired to office since that time until his successful canvass for Senatorial honors last fall. His fraternal connections are the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army. He is regular in his attendance on the Congregational church and is a bachelor.

Born at Berlin, Vermont, January 19, 1839. His education began in the public school and was continued in Barre Academy and Dartmouth College. His studies were interrupted by enlistment in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, Company B, composed for the most part of college students. The company was attached to the Army of the Potomac and saw service in the Shenandoah Valley, the Antietam campaign and at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Perrin later enlisted in the Third Vermont Light Battery, was in the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg and at the surrender of the Confederate army under General Lee at Appomattox. After the war Mr. Perrin continued his studies at Dartmouth, graduating in 1866. He took a course of lectures at the Albany Law School in 1866-7, came to Iowa and entered the law office of Tracy and Newman at Burlington. In 1868 he located at Nashua, in Chickasaw County which became his permanent home. He is a veteran legislator, having served in the House of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, and in the Senate of the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies.

Born at Berlin, Vermont, January 19, 1839. His education began in the public school and was continued in Barre Academy and Dartmouth College. His studies were interrupted by enlistment in the First Rhode Island Cavalry, Company B, composed for the most part of college students. The company was attached to the Army of the Potomac and saw service in the Shenandoah Valley, the Antietam campaign and at Harper's Ferry. Mr. Perrin later enlisted in the Third Vermont Light Battery, was in the campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg and at the surrender of the Confederate army under General Lee at Appomattox. After the war Mr. Perrin continued his studies at Dartmouth, graduating in 1866. He took a course of lectures at the Albany Law School in 1866-7, came to Iowa and entered the law office of Tracy and Newman at Burlington. In 1868 he located at Nashua, in Chickasaw County which became his permanent home. He is a veteran legislator, having served in the House of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth General Assemblies, and in the Senate of the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth General Assemblies.