Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-09-29
rHELArE SAMUEL PERRY.
A Long and Honorable Life-His Flu.
neral I'm VAR Haven Yesterday.

THE LATE SAMUEL PERRY.
A Long and Honorable Life-His Flu
neral In Nair Haven Yesterday.
The funeral of Samuel Perry was held at
his late residence, No. 1879 Ferry street, yes
terday afternoon at three O'Clock. Rev.
Burdett Hart of the First church oficiated,
referring in we'll chosen words to the long
career of the deceased and his character for
business sagacity and as parent. There
were for floral tributes, besides the sheaf of
wheat, fine pillow of choice exotics with
"Father'' worked in it and a handsome
anchor. The bearers were the two sons of
the deceased, George E. of Providence and
Frederic G. of this city; his three sons-in-
law, John P. Augur of Augur &
futile, husband of Harriet E.; Elbridge F.
Barnes, proprietor of the Barnes Tool COM
pany, husband of Genevieve; William A.
Countryman, assistant editor of the Hart
ford Post, husband of Mary A.; and George
Barnes The burial was in the Fair Haven
cemetery.
Mr.. Perry was nearly seventy-four years of
age and his career has been remarkable
one, closing with a remarkably severe ILL
ness of over four months. For the past ff-
teen years he had been more or less troubled
with an eruption on the face that was never
accurately named by experts, but was sup
posed to be of a cancerous nature. It was
treated by many doctors here and in N. York
and at times with some degree of success, but
finally on May 10 last it reached his right
eye, destroying the sight and combining him
with most acute distress to his bed yet he
bore his sufferings with remarkable forth
tude.
He was born in Montville, Conn, Oct, 10,
1912, and at an early age took to the sea in
hal, ~, CHI Noxx
London. In this manner he became &C
quainted with most of the important parts of
the world, had many hairbreadth escapes by
field and food; became navigator and cap
tain; returned to the firm earth and did bus
mess in the Floridas, when the Seminoles
were still in the Everglades, in Mobile and
New Orleans. He twice suffered and was
given up as dead with the vomit and was
once shipwrecked. Coming North, at length,
he entered the business of paper manufactur-
ing in Mittineague Mass, in which vicinity
he married Miss Emeline Chaplin.
In 1S43, or thereabouts, he came to Fair
Haven, living at what is now known as ''The
Cedars," part of which territory he owned,
and started the first systematic furnishing of
ice to citizens. His enterprise became the
present New Haven Ice company, of which
he was president, director and leading stock
holder for many years. At the time of his
death he was not only still director in this
rations. Mr.. Perry was widely known, not
only for his abstemious habits,
quiet ways and business ssgacity,
but for his great love of home,
where his large family of children and
grandchildren always found him devoted to
their welfare He had thorough mathemat-
ematical mind, and was always a dangerous
opponent in any game of mental skill, in
Guiding chess and draughts. His inventive
faculty has made the task of ice gathering
much easier than it was when he began it
here in the forties.
The death removes another of the very few
of the older generation of Fair Haven citizens
who have during the past few years been
going over to the majority one by one. Hard
ly one of the old landmarks remain, and Of
those who have gone, Captain Perry, as he
was familiarly known-a title he al
ways kept fresh by investments and other
interests in shipping till his dying day-will
not be among those soonest forgotten. His
familiar face and form will still linger in the
memory, though mortality has at last given
place after a we'll rounded life and through
tensest suffering to Immortality.
Of the brothers of the deceased who made
q name and fortune for themselves in the
business world Nehemiah D. Perry will be re-
membered by the older among us. Though
he died under 80 he amassed competency
which his widow, children and grandchildren
are still representing in this city and Mil
ford. The others in Massachusetts,, New
York or wherever they lived were always
prominent.