Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

James A. PERRY, proprietor of Riverview Stock Farm; P. O. Wilmington; born in Whitestown, 
Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 6, 1832; where he resided until 1859, when he removed to Illinois, 
and, after a short stay in Chicago, located in Florence Twp., this county, in the fall of 
that year; he followed farming for several years, and afterward engaged in the grain trade 
at Elwood; since 1864, he has been engaged in raising, importing and exporting Norman and 
English thorough-bred horses, having now on hand a large number of fine horses at Riverview 
Stock Farm, near Wilmington; owns 425 acres of good farm land. Married in 1854 to Miss 
Esther ROCKFELELLER, who was born in the State of New York.