Aaron Perry, is one of the best-known and most successful lawyers of Oakland County, Michigan, where he is spent nearly his entire life. He was frequently called upon to fill positions of public trust at an earlier date, he has devoted his later years to the practice of his profession and study. He is a senior member of the firm of Perry and Stockwell, with offices in Pontiac, where he is resided for many years.

Mr. Perry was born on a farm in Oakland County, Michigan, November 11, 1848, and is the youngest of a family of eight children born to Abram Perry and Sophia Andrews. His father was born in Warren County, New Jersey, and died when her subject was 15 years of age. He had come to Oakland County in 1836 and lived there until his death at the age of 54 years. He married Sophia Andrews, who was born in Genesee County, New York, and her death occurred when Aaron Perry was but two years old.

From his father's estate, Aaron Perry received $700, which, with a sum borrowed, paid his way to school. He received a preparatory education and the Clarkston Union school of Oakland County, then entered the University of Michigan, and graduating there from with the class of 1870.he was a member of the Literary Adelphi and was one of the speakers at the second sophomore exhibition. He taught during the following school year at the ordinal Academy, and during the school year of 1872-73 was superintendent of the Ovid Union School in Clinton County. In the famous Greeley campaign of 1872 he was elected a member of the state legislature, and with five others formed the minority in that body. At the close of the session in the spring of 1873 he went to Muskegon, Michigan, and took charge of the United States harbor improvements under his former classmate, C. M. Wells. In the fall of the year he entered the law department at the University of Michigan, and in March, 1874, attended a special session of the legislature called for the purpose of considering intimating a new state constitution to the people for their approval at the next election. The session continued about 40 days. During which time he roomed with Col. C. B. Grant, then speaker of the lower house and now one of the Supreme Court justices of the state. It is a matter of some pride to Mr. Perry, then an account of his ability in rushing business he was called upon to preside more during a session than any other member, excepting two, and that during his term of office he was enabled to do some good work in the interest of the University. During the next summer he was for a time in United States service as harbor inspector on the West Coast of Michigan, and traveled some in Illinois, Wisconsin and the northern peninsula. In the fall of 1874 he was a candidate for County Clerk and with a total of 10,000 votes cast he was defeated by about 11 votes. That defeat he now counts as one of his strokes of good luck, as he was enabled to re-enter the law department of the University, from which he was graduated the following spring. He then spent two summers at Sand Beach, assisting Mr. Gilbert of the class of 1870, in charge of the worker the construction of United States Harbor refuge at that place, spending the intervening winners and careful study of law in the office of Judge A. C. Baldwin of Pontiac. In the fall of 1876 he entered actively into the children campaign and stump the County in the interest of Democracy. After the election he became a partner of Judge Taft of Pontiac, with whom he continued for two years. In the spring of 1878 he was appointed city attorney and filled the office most of patiently for a period, and all of eight years, and also in 1878 was elected prosecuting attorney in which office he served for two years. since that time he has but once been a candidate for an office, at which time he was a candidate for circuit Judge, and although he ran ahead of his ticket in his own County, met with defeat. Since 1876 he has practiced law continuously in Pontiac and ranks among the foremost in the County, having participated in much important litigation and is the president of the Bar Association of Oakland County. both his taste in aptitude did him better for the trial of issues of law and fact, and for that reason he has successfully argued a large number cases before the Michigan Supreme Court. He has accumulated a large law library and an extensive collection of miscellaneous books. He has traveled very extensively throughout the United States, but never out of North America. Although a member of the fishing club, he has not caught a fish nor fired a gun in 30 years, and he has no taste for sports of any kind, preferring to dig fossils from a disintegrating ledge of rocks. he is made specialty of geology in microscopy and has spent many hours of recreation and gathering fossils and examining microscopical specimens. He has a large cabinet of fossils and geological specimens of different kinds, and is a large collection of books on the subject of geology.

I'm Christmas Day, 1873, Mr. Perry was married to Sallie Hoffman, who had been one of his assistance in the Ovid Union school, they have one son, Stuart H., Who was born in Pontiac in October, 1874. Stuart H. Perry graduated from the literary department of the University of Michigan in 1894 with a degree of A. B., and from the law department two years later. He then entered into partnership with his father under the firm name of A. & S. H. Perry; four year prior to August 1, 1901, the firm maintained a branch office in the city of Detroit under the personal charge of the junior partner. Upon that date, Stuart H. Perry retired from the firm to become editor of the Oakland County Post and the Pontiac Daily Press, in which he had purchased an interest. His experiences editor while managing editor the Inlander while at University. On May 1, 1902, he became proprietor and is editor of the St. John's News at St. Johns, Michigan, where he now resides. He has traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico and Europe, is a member of the American Microscopical Society, and has contributed articles to the publications of the society. Although his taste are literary, he shares his father's taste for geology. Stuart H. Perry was united in marriage with Maud Caldwell, a daughter of Dr. William C. Caldwell of Fremont, Ohio, whom he first met as a student at the University. They have one child. Well-connected with the Detroit bar you are a law book entitled "The Legal Advisor in Business Guide," which was published in January, 1902.

There were many prominent and distinguished man in the class of 1870 in the University of Michigan of which Aaron Perry was a member, among them Rufus Day, justice of the United States Supreme Court; William L. Penfield, solicitor of the State Department of the United States; Walter B. Stevens, secretary of the St. Louis Exposition; Alfred Noble, one of the most able engineers of the world, who served on the recent Canal commission; Bernard Moses, who was appointed to the Philippine Commission by Pres. McKinley in 1901; Lucius B. Swift , a noted civil-service reformer of Indiana; and Count Michael Meyerdorff, a well-known civil engineer, now occupying a government position in Washington DC. Fraternally, Mr. Perry is a member of the Pontiac Lodge, F. & A. M.; the Knights of Pythias; and the Ancient Order of United Workman. His wife is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which he also attends.