Author

Finding aid prepared by Alison Sperry

Title

Perry family papers

Date

1800-1952

Repository

University of Kentucky Special Collections

Arrangement

Arranged by material type.

Conditions Governing Access note

Collection is open to researchers by appointment.

Preferred Citation Note

61m145 : [identification of item], Perry family papers, 1800-1952, University of Kentucky Special Collections.

Extent

1.55 Cubic feet

4 boxes

Creator

Perry family

Abstract

The Perry family papers is a collection of accounting paper work, correspondence and business records. It includes business correspondence, logs, accounts, bills of lading, and receipts generated by Fountain Perry's boat operations.

Biography/History

The Perry family, of Campbell and Gallatin Counties in Kentucky, included Fountain Perry, a boat captain and commission merchant who operated flatboats and keelboats down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Cincinnati to New Orleans. He traded at various times in tobacco, pork, lard, ploughs, whiskey, apples, horses and slaves, usually operating his businesses from either Campbell County, Kentucky or Natchez, Mississippi. He later moved to Gallatin County, where he served as a commissioner of the common schools and as a justice of the peace. Fountain's son, Roderick Perry, was a miller, a lawyer and a steamboat owner; he served as an officer in the Confederate Army, was president of the Warsaw, Ky. bank, and served as a court clerk. He was also influential in Gallatin County politics. A descendant of the family was William P. Perry, Jr., who married Anne Talliaferro.

Scope and Content

The Perry family papers is a collection of accounting paper work, correspondence and business records. It includes business correspondence, logs, accounts, bills of lading, and receipts generated by Fountain Perry's boat operations. There is personal correspondence, business vouchers, cancelled checks, legal documents and other materials related to his personal, professional and political careers. The collection also contains school notebooks which belonged to Martha Gayle and a Rod Perry, photographs of women's fashions from the early twentieth century, and a series of letters dating from 1948 to 1952, written by Anne Talliaferro to her fiancé, William P. Perry, Jr.

Subjects

• Gallatin County (Ky.)--Politics and government.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Gayle, Martha
• Perry , Fountain, 1799-1876
• Perry, Anne Taliaferro.
• Perry, Rod.
• Perry, Roderick.
• Perry, William P.
• Bills of lading.
• Boatmen.
• Business records--Kentucky--Warsaw.
• Inland Water Transportation--United States
• Shipping--Mississippi River.
• Shipping--Ohio River.

Related Material

70M11, Perry family papers, University of Kentucky Special Collections.

Collection Inventory