The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Heis a strict, ardent advocate of temperance; a friend to the poor, and exempli-fies a symmetrical ministry; is public-spirited, sharing a wide acquaintancewith business men. As a Christian minister he emphasizes the triumphsof the gospel and the evangelistic nurture of his people. Mr. Penney married July 27th, 1887, Florence, daughter of David andJanet (Marsh) Wheeler of Mannsville, Jefferson county. New York. was educated in Oswego Normal School and the Ladies School atHamilton, and was an efficient teacher for
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . Heis a strict, ardent advocate of temperance; a friend to the poor, and exempli-fies a symmetrical ministry; is public-spirited, sharing a wide acquaintancewith business men. As a Christian minister he emphasizes the triumphsof the gospel and the evangelistic nurture of his people. Mr. Penney married July 27th, 1887, Florence, daughter of David andJanet (Marsh) Wheeler of Mannsville, Jefferson county. New York. was educated in Oswego Normal School and the Ladies School atHamilton, and was an efficient teacher for several years. They are theparents of two children: Sterling Wheeler, born June 19, 1892, in Auburn,New York, and Frank Dee, Jr., born in North Adams. ^Massachusetts,March 4th, 1896. Frank D. Perry, one of the leading business men of Worcester, resides inQuinsigamond Village, and in the same house where he was born, July 25,1856. His parents were Dexter H. and Elizabeth A. Perry, and the Perryfamily has been residents of this neighborhood for several FRANK D. PERRY. The Worcester of 1898. 713 Mr. Perry was the sixth in a family of seven children. He was educatedin the public schools of this city, leaving the high school before he hadcompleted the course, on account of the death of his father March 16, the following five years he worked on the farm for his mother, whodied April 19, 1877. In 1876 he started an omnibus line to the city, and in1877 began to do general teaming. This new line of business proved asuccessful undertaking, and for ten years he continued it, having in use, attimes, over twenty horses. In 1882 he opened a coal and wood yard, commencing in a small way, andgradually increasing to its present dimensions. He has also done a largebusiness as a contractor in stone-work and street-making. At one time
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