Joseph Stras Peery
(David Harold, Major David, John, James #1)
Brief History to 1918
Joseph Stras Peery was born 5 October 1868, in Ogden, Utah. He married
20 July 1898, Luacine Hoge, daughter of Judge Enos Dougherty Hoge, who
was born 23 July 1831, in Virginia, and died 27 July 1912, in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Her mother was Luacine Williams. Luacine Hoge Peery, b. 16
September 1872; d. 27 April 1908.
Mr. Peery married (2) 23 December 1909, Julina Clarissa Smith, daughter
of President Joseph F. Smith* and Julina Lambson Smith. She was born 10
February 1884, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Joseph Stras Peery was trained by his father, David Harold Peery, in
business; and with his father and brother, David Henry Peery, he was
engaged in the mercantile business in Ogden, Utah for three years. At
seventeen, he attended the University of Utah. At nineteen, he went to
Roanoke College, Virginia, for one year. The next two winters he
attended University of Nebraska.
At twenty-one, he was appointed County Superintendent of Schools of Weber
County, Utah, which position he filled for two and a half years. He
enjoyed his school work, introducing gradation and graduation exercises in
the schools. Though much interested in school work he left to study law
at Yale University, where he graduated in the class of 1895.
Returning home he was elected County Attorney of Weber County. He moved
to Salt Lake City in 1907. He gave up his practice of law and is engaged
in the sheep business. He is one of the guides on Temple Block* [Temple
Square] where he meets many tourists. He is Superintendent of the Young
Men's Mutual Improvement Associations* [YMMIA] of Liberty Stake.*
Mr. Peery is greatly interested in his father's genealogy and has
collected a great deal of information regarding his line.
* = Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Source: The Peery Genealogy,The Utah Genealogical and Historical
Magazine, Vol. X-Jan 1919, p. 20, #196.
Editor - Peery Family
History
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