Manchester Historic Association collections . hadcharge of the books of John E. Towle & Co., wholesaleprovision merchants, for eighteen years. His last workwas done for Eager & Co. Comrade Perry joined the War Veterans of Manches-terin 1879, and Louis Bell Post, G. A. R., September 26,1883. He was junior vice-commander in 1895, senior vice-commander in 1896, and commander in 1897. He was acharter member of the Alvin H. Willey command of theUnion Veterans, which was organized in this city, and rosethrough the different grades to be department commanderof New Hampshire, with the rank of brigadie
Manchester Historic Association collections . hadcharge of the books of John E. Towle & Co., wholesaleprovision merchants, for eighteen years. His last workwas done for Eager & Co. Comrade Perry joined the War Veterans of Manches-terin 1879, and Louis Bell Post, G. A. R., September 26,1883. He was junior vice-commander in 1895, senior vice-commander in 1896, and commander in 1897. He was acharter member of the Alvin H. Willey command of theUnion Veterans, which was organized in this city, and rosethrough the different grades to be department commanderof New Hampshire, with the rank of was a member of Hillsborough Lodge, L O. O. F.,from 1880. He married, July 31, 1871, Miss Ella F. Plummer,of Manchester, who survives him. Five children wereborn to them, two of whom, Walter S. and Attie are liv-ing. His brother, Henry S., also survives him. ComradePerry answered the last roll-call on the morning of April4, 1907, and his spirit passed out to the Great Beyond,where the bivouac and the battle are MEMOIRS 305 WILLIAM E. BUCK William Ela Buck was born at Hampstead, N. H., inApril, 1838. He attended the village school In Hampsteadfor twenty-five weeks in the year, until he was 13 yearsold. After that he went to the same school for one or twowinters. At the age of 17 he had saved $600 from workin a shoe shop, and with this money he went to the acad-emies at Chester and Atkinson one year and Phillips ExeterAcademy three years, where he was thoroughly fitted forHarvard University, though he intended to enter Dart-mouth College. At the age of twenty-one years, he found himselfwithout money and in poor health, and went west to seek aclimate more congenial to his physical welfare, at the sug-gestion of a friend who proposed that they should teachschool for a while to defray expenses. This was in Octo-ber, 1859. Mr. Buck began teaching his first school thenext month, out on the prairie, in a new settlement, aboutforty miles west of Chicago. After tea
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