The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . bout ten years pre-vious to his death, when he resigned. He was a member of the old Whigparty, and was appointed postmaster ofMeredith Bridge during President JohnQuincy Adamss administration in 1S29. THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. 165 He was appointed by Gov. BenjaminPierce, surgeon of the Twenty-ninthregiment of New Hampshire militia, in1S29. In 1834 he was elected to thestate legislature, and distinguished him-self as a champion of the peoplesrights. He introduced
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . bout ten years pre-vious to his death, when he resigned. He was a member of the old Whigparty, and was appointed postmaster ofMeredith Bridge during President JohnQuincy Adamss administration in 1S29. THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. 165 He was appointed by Gov. BenjaminPierce, surgeon of the Twenty-ninthregiment of New Hampshire militia, in1S29. In 1834 he was elected to thestate legislature, and distinguished him-self as a champion of the peoplesrights. He introduced and secured thepassage of the bill reducing the salaryof the governor of New Hampshirefrom two thousand to one thousanddollars, on the ground that the honor of gusta Perley, wife of Jacob Sanborn ;Mary A. Perley, who married Josiah ; Lewis S. Perley, who re-sides upon the ancestral farm to-day ;and Clara E. Perley. who married I > L. Norris, and resides at Cambridge-port, Mass. I >r. Perley was one of the strong menof early Laconia, a man of excellentjudgment, strict integrity, and muchfinancial Lewis 5> I;trlt>. being governor of the state should sat-isfy the chief executive, and that thesalary should be merely nominal. He was twice married, first to MaryA. Eastman, of Eranklin, N. H. Hissecond wife was Dora P. Kandlett. ofGilmanton, N. H., and this union wasblessed with five children : John , who died from the exposureof his military service in [862 ; I). Au- The Late Lieut. John L. Perley, J. The late Lieutenant John L. Perley,| in whose honor the Laconia Post ofthe Grand Army of the Republic isnamed, was a native of Laconia, bomat Meredith Bridge, Dec. 10. 1859, theeldest son of John L. and Dora (Rand-lett) Perley. He was educated in thepublic schools of this town, and com. i66 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. pleted his education at Gilford academy,New Hampton Institution and the Law-rence Scientific school,Cambridge,
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