Perry Harper

Brief Life History of Perry

When Perry Harper was born on 13 October 1895, in Greenlee, Arizona, United States, his father, Ira Harper, was 39 and his mother, Amanda Virginia Clementine Wade Head, was 35. He married Ablone Pearl O'Neil on 25 August 1919, in Silver City, Grant, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1930 and Supervisorial District 1, Yavapai, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 13 April 1983, in Sun Valley, Navajo, Arizona, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Holbrook Cemetery, Holbrook, Navajo, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Perry Harper
1895–1983
Ablone Pearl O'Neil
1900–1980
Marriage: 25 August 1919
Wallace Perry Harper
1920–1979
Eugene Nelson Harper
1922–2009

Sources (11)

  • Perry Harper, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Perry Harper, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
  • Perry Harper, "Arizona, Mesa LDS Family History Center, Obituary Index, 1959-2014"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1909

Historical Boundaries: 1909: Greenlee, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Greenlee, Arizona, United States

1918 · Attempting to Stop the War

To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.

Name Meaning

English (Staffordshire), Scottish, Irish (Antrim and Down), and Dutch: occupational name for a player on the harp, from Middle English harper(e) ‘harper’ (Old English hearpere) and Middle Dutch harper, herper. The harper was one of the most important figures of a medieval baronial hall, especially in Scotland and northern England, and the office of harper was sometimes hereditary. The Scottish surname is probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Chruiteir ‘son of the harper’ (from Gaelic cruit ‘harp’, ‘stringed instrument’). This surname has long been present in Ireland.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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