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President, A. H. Perfect & Company, wholesale grocers
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Perfect clerked in a Wilmington, Ohio, dry-goods store from sixteen, studied stenography at Springfield, spent seven years in the offices of the Thomas Manufacturing Company there, and entered the wholesale grocery trade at Findlay as Evans, Perfect & Company. Passing through Fort Wayne while bound for a Madison, Wisconsin, venture, he learned that the wholesale grocery house of McDonald & Watt had closed and changed his plans. In April 1896 he formed A. H. Perfect & Company with Harry A. Perfect, T. Guy Perfect and H. H. Eavey; the firm incorporated in March 1907 with $200,000 capital, Arthur as president, and built its house at Clay and East Columbia streets, employing seventeen road salesmen and thirty-five men in the house and distributing its own "Perfect" brands. In June 1916 he was general chairman of the ten-day campaign that raised $300,000 to establish a YMCA in Fort Wayne, and he served as president of the Associated Charities, the clearing house of the city's benevolent organizations, and as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church. He married Maude Eavey on 31 January 1889.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch and portrait, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.