From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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PERRY H. HOVEY  
	Perry H. Hovey resides about six miles northeast from Colville, where
he owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He has bestowed his 
labors here with success and has made good substantial improvements and does 
general farming. Among other specialties, he has started a nice nursery and 
pays particular attention to growing strawberries and samll fruits, and 
doubtless will make a good success of the enterprise. Mr Hovey devotes much
of the winter time to mining and has several properties. He is known as a 
stirring and capable man and has labored faithfully to build up the country.
   Perry H. Hovey was born in Chippewa county, Wisconsin. on March 13,1862,
the son of E.M. and Mary (Seely) Hovey, natives of Massachusetts and New
York, respectively. They were married at Eau Claire,Wisconsin. By a former
marriage the father had two children, L.B. and Julia A., and to the last 
marriage two children were born, Ella, and Perry H. In Dunn county, Wisconsin
our subject secured his early education in the public schools, and at the 
budding age of seventeen, he began duties in the battle of life on his own
responsibility. He worked in the lumber woods, then went to Dakota where he
farmed and herded cattle. Later he was foreman on a milk ranch at Mandan,
North Dakota for one years. After this we see him in Montana, still handling
stock and in 1884 he went to Arkansas and took up the occupation of making
barrel staves. He visited Texas and then went to cooking in Kansas City.
This occupied him for some time and next we see him catering to the trade
in Colorado after some work in Missouri, and then he took a position as cook
on the range. Later in Arizona he still pursued the avocation and then 
diverted his attention to stage driving. It was 1888 that he finally landed 
in Spokane and took up bridge work for a time and also did other labor. He 
located a ranch on the Little Spokane about this time and in 1891 came to
Colville. We next see him handling ore and lumber for the Old Dominion and
in 1893, he took his present place as a homestead. In 1894, he was in the 
employ of the Spokane Falls and Northern railroad as baggagemaster and in 
other capacities. In 1895, Mr. Hovey went prospecting and more or less since
that time he has followed that line of work.
   In political matters he is inclined to the Liberals and is an independent
thinker. In fraternal affiliations, Mr. Hovey is a member of the Miners Union
and is well esteemed. He is inclined to agnosticism in religious belief and
is always ready for investigation.   
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