Biography

Perry’s name is some­times giv­en with the pre­fix Prof[ess­or], in­di­cat­ing he was prob­ab­ly a teach­er.

Google’s Ge­mi­ni ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence tool re­ports his full name was Ste­phen J. Perry, part of the Per­ry Bro­thers pub­lish­ing house, a short-lived but ac­tive firm pri­mar­ily based in Dal­ton, Georg­ia and Bo­az, Ala­ba­ma, around the turn of the 20th Cen­tu­ry. Al­so from Ge­mi­ni:

In aca­dem­ic works that ca­ta­log the Sun­day School Mu­sic era, re­search­ers oft­en use [Perry’s] full name to pro­vide a com­plete bio­graph­ic­al record.…In for­mal lib­ra­ry ca­ta­log­ing for the Sho­wal­ter Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, his name is oft­en spelled out to dif­fer­en­ti­ate him from oth­er con­trib­ut­ors in the Per­ry fam­ily…In the Bib­lio­gra­phy of Black Mu­sic (Vol. 4) or si­mi­lar in­di­ces of 19th-cen­tu­ry Am­eri­can com­pos­ers, he is list­ed as Ste­phen J. Per­ry to link his iden­ti­ty across mul­ti­ple pub­lish­ing hous­es (like Big­low & Main vs. The Per­ry Bro­thers).

Works

• The Glad Ev­an­gel, with An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter & L. M. Ev­il­siz­er (Dal­ton, Geor­gia: A. J. Sho­wal­ter, 1887)
• The Re­gal Sing­er, with An­tho­ny Sho­wal­ter (Dal­ton, Geor­gia: A. J. Sho­wal­ter, 1891)
• Perry Bro­thers’ Roy­al Crown (Dal­ton, Geor­gia: A. J. Sho­wal­ter, 1899)
• Perry Bro­thers’ Songs of Vic­to­ry (Dal­ton, Geor­gia: A. J. Sho­wal­ter, 1899)
• The Song Serv­ice, No.1, with Hen­ry Sho­wal­ter & Tho­mas Mos­ley (Bo­az, Ala­ba­ma: Nor­mal Pub­lish­ing, 1900)