PERRY T. SARGEANT

      PERRY T. SARGEANT, who is one of the most prosperous farmers in the vicinity of Hartline, having a very excellent, well improved and well cultivated holding, is also one of the leading men of the county, having shown his ability in various capacities and his progressiveness and iuflustry in his achievements here.

      Perry T. Sargeant was born in Vanderburg county, Indiana, on September 16, 1864. His parents, Orsames P. and Rachel C. (Taylor) Sargeant, were natives of Vermont and Virginia, respectively. Perry T. was educated in the common schools and also studied under private teachers, being especially inclined toward mathematics. Although he never took a degree from any college, he made a special

study of mathematics and has won considerable distinction in this line. From Indiana, he removed to Texas, where he was engaged on the cattle range for three years, then he returned to his native state, by way of New Orleans. One year later, he came to Kansas and in a short time we see him in California, whence he journeyed to Portland, Oregon, and from that place came on to Ellensburg and engaged on the Northern Pacific as a civil engineer. After six years of service in this capacity he completed the training that he had been so desirous of obtaining in mathematics. In 1886, Mr. Sargeant moved to Douglas county and settled in the Coulee, six miles north of Coulee City, where he took up a homestead, which was later sold to Adolph Young. He bought five hundred and sixty acres, his present estate, and which is one of the finest farms in this section of the country. In 1894. Mr. Sargeant was elected surveyor on the Republican ticket and two years later, so well did he fill the office, he was re-elected. After these four years of service he returned to his farm and has devoted his attention to private enterprises until recently, when he was appointed road supervisor

of district number two, Douglas county, in which capacity he is operating at the present time. Mr. Sargeant has two brothers and two sisters, Eugene G., Morris H., Mrs. Thomas Leach, and Mrs. Charles Crampton.

      At the Welch church, on February 2, 1891, Mr. Sargeant married Miss Clara J. Jones. Her parents, William and Alice E. (Owens) Jones, are natives of Wales. Mrs. Sargeant was born in Wisconsin, on November 30, 1870, and has the following brothers and sisters : William E., John G., Mrs. Maggie Allen, Ealenor N., and Phoebe. Two children have been the fruit of this marriage: Alice R., born in Spokane on October 15, 1897; and William O.. born near Hartline, on February 16, 1899. Mr. Sargeant is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Maccabees and the K. P. In religious persuasion he is allied with the Cumberland Presbyterian church but is a liberal supporter of all denominations.

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