Background
Born at Southfield, Staten Island, New York, a son of Edward and Addra Guyon Perine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "the Huguenot", Perine moved to Cahaba, Alabama, and became a merchant and wealthy plantation owner.
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He established a store on the west side of Vine Street in downtown Cahaba. Anna M. Gayle Fry, writing in her book Memories of Old Cahaba, describes East. M. Perine as "a merchant prince of ante-bellum days, a Northern gentleman of the old school who was universally beloved by all who knew him."
In the 1850s, Perine built a palatial, twenty-six-room brick mansion at the foot of Vine Street. On the grounds of the estate were a conservatory, vineries, and an artesian well, with a flow now estimated at 1,250 gallons per minute.
At the time it was thought to be the deepest well in the world, at nine hundred feet.
lieutenant had a stream of water gushing and falling into a large cement basin, from which it was channeled off through the grounds in cement branches to the pastures beyond. Water from this well was also forced through pipes into the mansion, making it the first air conditioned home in Alabama.
Perine died June 5, 1905, at Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama.
Membership
He later became a member of the firm of Perine & Hunter.
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June 5, 1905 (aged 95)