Samuel Marshall Perry

Samuel Marshall Perry was a member of the Los Angeles Common Council between 1878 and 1888, and of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors from 1889 to 1893. He served as chairman of the Board of Supervisors at a time when the Los Angeles county courthouse was built.

Perry, who was referred to in the press as S. M. Perry, was born in Venango County, Pennsylvania, May 12, 1836, and lived in Piqua, Ohio before coming to Marysville, California, in 1860. After returning to the East for several years, he came to Los Angeles in 1875.

S. M. Perry died in Los Angeles July 21, 1898, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.