Rt. Hon. Sir George Halsey Perley, MP.

1857 - 1938  (80 years)

• Name	George Halsey Perley
  Prefix	Rt. Hon. Sir
  Suffix	MP.
  Born	12 Sep 1857	Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1884	Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	merchant
  Elected Office	1926
  	Secretary of State of Canada
  Interesting	politics, business,
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-39177
  Died	4 Jan 1938	Nepean, Carleton Co., Ontario   [2]
  	Cause: Coronary Thrombosis and Arteriosclerosis
  Buried	Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Person ID	I39177	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Annie Hespeler Bowlby,   b. 7 Mar 1862, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 22 Aug 1910, London, England  (Age 48 years)
  Married	4 Jun 1884	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F24546	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, the son of William Goodhue Perley and Mabel E. Ticknor Stevens, Perley was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School, at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Harvard University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878. Perley became a partner in the Perley & Pattee, a lumber company in which his father was senior partner. After Perley & Pattee dissolved in 1893, Perley became head of G.H. Perley & Co which had mills at Pointe-Calumet, Quebec and vice president of the Hull Lumber Company, Ltd., which is operating largely on the upper Ottawa. For many years, Perley was vice president of the Canada Atlantic Railway Co., president of the Rideau Club and president of the Ottawa Golf Club. Along with the other heirs of his father, he donated his homestead on Wellington Street for the purpose of establishing a hospital and served as vice president of its Board of Management. In 1900, he was chairman of the Ottawa and Hull Fire Relief Fund, and distributed about $1,000,000 among the sufferers by the 1900 Hull\endash Ottawa fire. Perley married Annie Hespeler in Kitchener, Ontario on 4 June 1884. Perley had two children: Mabel, born 8 July 1885 and died 13 March 1887, and Ethel Lesa, born 16 September 1888. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative MP for Argenteuil in 1904, having failed to defeat Mr. W. C. Edwards for the seat in Russell County during the election of 1900. Perley served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces in the World War I government of Sir Robert Borden. He did not run for re-election in the 1917 federal election in order to concentrate on his duties in London. He returned to the House of Commons in the 1925 federal election and subsequently served as Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived 1926 government of Arthur Meighen and then as Minister without Portfolio in the government of R. B. Bennett following the 1930 federal election. He was re-elected in the 1935 federal election which also saw the defeat of Bennett's government, and remained an MP until his death in 1938. Wikipedia 2015

  
  

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  [S721] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration, marriage certificate 11676 (1884), Perley-Bowlby. George Halsey Perley, 26, merchant of Ottawa, b. New Hampshire, U. S., s/o William Goodhue & Mabel E. T. Perley, married Annie Hespeler Bowlby, 22, res. Berlin, b. Canada, d/o Ward Hamkilton and Lissie Hespeler, Bowlby, married 4 Jul 1884, Berlin [S713] Vit - ON - Death Registration, death certificate.

  
  

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  Born - 12 Sep 1857 - Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States Occupation - merchant - 1884 - Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada Married - 4 Jun 1884 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: Coronary Thrombosis and Arteriosclerosis - 4 Jan 1938 - Nepean, Carleton Co., Ontario Buried - - Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth