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Amos Perry

PERRY, Amos, author, born in South Natick, Massachusetts, 12 August, 1812. After graduation at Harvard in 1837 he taught in New London, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island He visited Europe several times, and from 1862 till 1867 was United States consul at Tunis. He has been secretary of the Rhode Island historical society since 1873, and its librarian since 1880, and in 1885 he was superintendent of the state census. Brown gave him the degree of A. M. in 1841. He is the author of "Cartilage and Tunis" (Providence, 1869); "Memorial of Zachariah Allen, 1795-1882" (Cambridge, 1883) and "Rhode Island State Census, 1885 " (Providence, 1887).

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