1831, Feb. 5 --- BIRTH, TWINS: Peter Perrine, #1038. Twin of John. (Third child, first son){D. Perrin,The Huguenot,1910}

1831, Feb. 5 --- BIRTH, TWINS: Full Name: Peter Perrine, b. Feb. 5, 1831, Penn.{Perrine,Peter,DeathCert1922} --- Peter Perrine, 5 Febrero 1831[Ficha Individual: Form completed by and signed by C. D. Perrine, 30 June 1935, Cordoba](jpg image on file]

1831, Feb. 5 --- BIRTHPLACE: Peter Perrine, b. 5 Feb 1831, Cross Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Peter and John were twins.{FamilySearch.org}

1833 --- FORMATIVE EVENT?: “In 1833 (Nov. 13) Peter Perrine (Charles’ father) was living (age 2) in Cross Creek, Pennsylvania where his family may have witnessed one of the most spectacular meteor showers in history on “the night the stars fell”.{ancestry.com} --- The Leonids meteor storm of 1833 (Nov. 13). “...it was the meteor storm of 1833 that broke into people’s modern day awareness – it was of truly superlative strength. One estimate is over one hundred thousand meteors an hour,[9] but another, done as the storm abated, estimated in excess of 240,000 meteors during the nine hours of the storm[1] over the entire region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains.”[Leonids]{Wikipedia} --- Did Charles’ paternal grandparents, father and/or others in the area pass down that experience to Charles, the astronomer, who had his own telescopic eyepiece at age 14?

1833 --- RESIDENCE: Pennsylvania.[U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900]{ancestry.com}

CROSS CREEK TOWNSHIP: A township named Cross Creek is also found in Jefferson County, Ohio. “Jefferson County Municipalities Include Steubenville (after 1851), Toronto, Amsterdam, Bergholz, Bloomingdale, Dillonvale, Empire, Irondale, Mingo Junction, Mount Pleasant, New Alexandria, Rayland, Richmond, Smithfield, Stratton, Tiltonsville, Wintersville. --- Townships Include Brush Creek, CROSS CREEK, Island Creek, Knox, Mount Pleasant, Ross, Salem, Saline, Smithfield, Springfield, Steubenville, Warren, Wayne, Wells.”2010[www.myohiogenealogy.com/oh-county-jefferson.html]

1835 --- Earliest mention I have found for Methodist Episcopal Church in Steubenville, Ohio: “A book of records for the Trustees of the Methodist E. Church in Steubenville, Volume II, 1835–1841 & member records from 1850 – 1857.”[www.jeffcochapter.com/MethodistEChurch.html]

1840 Census: RESIDENCE: Cross Creek Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania; Head of Family: Peter Perrine; Free White Persons, incl. Head: Males: one age 5-10 (grdchld: Peter, John or Robert?), one age 70-80 (Peter, the Head?); Females: one age 30-40 (Margaret, dghtr-in-law?), one age 70-80 (Sarah, spouse?); Free Colored Persons: 0.{ancestry.com}

1849 --- RESIDENCE: Pennsylvania.[U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900]{ancestry.com}

1850 US Census (Aug 21?): RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Dwelling #180, Cross Creek Township, Washington Co., Pennsylvania; Head: Isaac PERRINE, age 47, Farmer, Value of Real Estate Owned: 10,000, b. Pennsylvania; Margaret Perrine, age 44, b. Pennsylvania; PETER, AGE 19, est. b. abt 1831; John, age 19; Robert, age 17; Margaret, age 15; Isaac H. age 13; Rebecca ?, age 11; Samuel S?, age 8; Mary, age 6; James, age 4. All b. Pennsylvania. {ancestry.com}

1851 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Steubenville incorporated as a city.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1854 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: First High School in Steubenville opens.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1857 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: First Panhandle Bridge (railroad) built over the Ohio River.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1860 US Census (7 Sept.): RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Post Office: Cross Creek Village. Dwelling #1393, Cross Creek Township, Washington Co., Pennsylvania; Head: Isaac Perrine, age 57, FARMER, value of real estate: 8400, value of personal estate: 5462, b. Pennsylvania; PETER, AGE 29, PROFESSOR, value of personal estate: 1820; Robert, age 27, Speculator, real estate: 10500, personal estate: 8895; Margaret, age 24; I. Harris, age 22, Farmer, personal estate: 1000; Rebecca, age 20; Samuel S. age 16; Mary, age 14.(Image in Photos){ancestry.com}}

1861 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Confederate States of America formed. Confederate assault on Fort Sumter starting the CIVIL WAR. President Lincoln declares a state of insurrection in the Southern States.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1863 --- RESIDENCE: Cross Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania; Peter Perrine, b. abt 1832.[U.S., Civil War Draft Registration s Records, 1863-65]{ancestry.com}

1863, May, June --- MILITARY REGISTRATION, RESIDENCE: PETER PERRINE, age (on 1st July 1863) 31, White; Profession, Occupation, or Trade: MINISTER, Single; John Perrine, age 32, Farmer, Married; Robert Perrine, age 30, Farmer, Married; all born Pa (Pennsylvania). Listed in alphabetical order of last name. “Consolidated list of all persons in Class I, SUBJECT TO do military duty in the Twenty fourth (24th) Congressional District, consisting of the Counties of Beann?, --rence Greene and Washington, State of Pennsylvania, enumerated during the month of May and June, 1863, under direction of Capt? John Cuthbertson, Provost Marshal”[U.S., Civil War Draft Registration Records, 1863-1865, Pennsylvania, 24th (Cong.Dist), Vol. 2 of 3, ancestry.com]

1863, Nov 24 --- MARRIAGE: “Mr. Peter Perrrine and Miss Elizabeth Dillon McCauley, The State of Ohio, Jefferson County”, Steubenville.[Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, Elizabeth D. McCauley, ancestry.com, image on file] ---”Wife of (Peter Perrine): Elizabeth D. Perrine”{Perrine,Peter,DeathCert1922}

1863, Nov. 24 --- MARRIAGE: “Peter Perrine and Elizabeth D. McCauley were married by me, a Minister of the Gospel, on 24 Nov 1863, Jefferson County, Ohio. (Minister’s signature)”[Ohio, County Marriages]{FamilySearch.org}

1863 --- RESIDENCE: “Steubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio on the Ohio-West Virginia border in the United States. It is the political county seat of Jefferson County and is sometimes considered part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State area, unofficially as a suburb. --- HISTORY: Steubenville was platted as a town in 1797, immediately after the creation of Jefferson County. It was built on the site of Fort Steuben which was erected in 1786–1787 and named in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. Steubenville received a city charter in 1851. The city was also a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad that connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis.”{Wikipedia.org}

1865 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Confederate States surrender ending the Civil War.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1866 --- FORMATIVE ASTRONOMICAL EVENT (for Charles)?: “The greatest Leonids meteor storm ever recorded as in 1833, when up to 100,000 meteors an hour were reported. Then 33 years later, a storm occurred in 1866.” --- Charles’ parents may have seen or heard about this memorable historical event and recalled it to their son Charles years later.

1869 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Transcontinental Railroad completed at Promontory Point, Utah.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

c. 1869 --- FAMILY LOCATIONS: “The earliest incident which I can remember was a trip by horse and buggy with my father and mother from Steubenville, Ohio, the home of my mother’s family, to MY FATHER’S FARM in WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA , a distance I think of some 15 or 20 miles. It was in winter and bitterly cold so that I was down on the floor of the buggy between them and well wrapped up. I could not have been more than two years old for my sister who was a year and ten months younger was...(not yet born).”{Perrine,CD,Memoirs90pgs}

1870 Census: No record seen to date, 2020.

1880 Census: RESIDENCE: 609 North Fourth Street, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio; Head: PETER PERRINE, AGE 49, est. b. 1831 in Pennsylvania, Married, Occupation: MINISTERIAL; Elizabeth D. Perrine, Wife, age 39, est. b. 1840/41 in Ohio; Charles D., Son, age 13, est. b. abt 1867 in Ohio, At School; Pamphylia, Daughter, age 11, est. b. abt 1869 in Ohio, At School. {ancestry.com}

OCCUPATION: “I can sometimes find names of ministers in some of our marriage books for our county (Jefferson). I searched around the 1880 time frame for Peter but had no luck at all. Either he was here only a short time or his name was just omitted from our records.”[Email from Sandy Day, Local Historian/Genealogist, Schiappa Library, Steubenville, Ohio, June 28, 2011] --- There were circuit preachers during 1829 and possibly earlier. --- The Methodist Episcopal Church in the town of Richmond was first built in 1832 at No. 88 South Sugar Street. No mention of Peter Perrine in list of ministers.[History of Richmond (Ohio), Richmond Community Historical Society, Email from Tina Judy, Secretary, RMEC, 6 Jul 2011]

1882 --- RESIDENCE: “Peter is in Steubenville, OHIO”{Crumrine,HistoryWashCo,Pennsylvania,1882}

1884 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Great Flood in the Ohio River, highest water ever known until that time.[www.steubenville.lib.oh.us/Services/history/timeline.asp]

1886 --- SON MOVES TO CALIFORNIA: “After a short business career, he (son, Charles D.) moved to California in about 1886.” --- Did Charles D. move to California for employment (Armour Packing Co. in SF), the warmer weather because of his asthma or was he attracted to UC and Lick Observatory, or was his maternal aunt living there (she was later), or did the intensive California marketing campaign attract him?{Perrine,CDHistONA,Paolantonio}

1886 - 1909 -- SON RESIDES in CALIFORNIA: Charles D. Perrine resided in California. (1893-1909, Lick Observatory){Perrine,CD,Who’sWho1910LeonardM}

1887 (Est.) -- MOVED TO CALIFORNIA: Estimated year moved from Steubenville, Ohio, to Alameda, California, by subtracting 43 from Eliz. death year (1930). Informant wrote on death cert. that Eliz. lived in Calif. for 43 years.[DeathCert]

1888, Oct. 25 --- RESIDENCE: Moved from Steubenville, OHIO to Alameda, CALIFORNIA. Did Charles move first in 1886 and then his parents followed in 1888? (Where did they first live when they arrived? 1931 Alameda Ave.?)[Calculated by subtracting length of residence in Alameda and California, 33 yrs, 6 mos, 19 days (recorded on death cert.), from his death date, May 28, 1922]{Perrine,Peter,DeathCert1922}

1889-90 --- RESIDENCE/OCCUPATION: “Perrine, Peter, insurance agent, res 1931 Alameda ave”[Oakland, ALAMEDA and Berkeley Directory 1889-90]{ancestry.com}

1890, Aug. 30 --- RESIDENCE: Peter Perrine, 1931 Alameda Avenue, Alameda, Calif., Age 59, est. b. 1831, b. Pennsylvania.[Voter Registration]

1891 --- RESIDENCE/OCCUPATION: “Perrine, Charles D, bookkeeper, Armour Packing Co., S F, res 1931 Alameda ave”. Next entry: “PERRINE, PETER, ins agt, 1931 Alameda ave, res same”. Next entry: “PERRINE, PETER (P Perrine & Co) res 1931 Alameda ave”. Next entry: “Perrine, P & Co (P Perrine and W A Staples)importers and breeders of thoroughbred poultry, cor Encinal ave and High”. Next entry: “Perrine, P M Miss, res 1931 Alameda ave”[Husted’s Oakland ALAMEDA Berkeley City Directory 1891]{ancestry.com}

1892 --- Age 61. RESIDENCE/OCCUPATION: “Perrine, Peter, ins agt, S F, res 2138 Alameda ave”[Husted’s Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and ALAMEDA County Directory 1892]{ancestry.com}

1892 --- “Peter Perrine, age 61, Ht: 5ft 8in, Complexion: fair, Color of eyes: blue, Color of hair: gray, b. Pennsylvania, Occupation: Agent, Ward: Alameda 5, Address: 2138 Alameda Ave.”[Voter Register]

1893 --- SON, CHARLES, MOVES TO Mt.. HAMILTON, SAN JOSE, CALIF. to take job as Secretary at Lick Observatory, University of California.

1894 --- Peter Perrine, age 61, b. abt 1833 in Pennsylvania, 2138 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Calif.[Voter Register]

1895 --- RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Age 64. “Perrine, Peter, ins, r 2138 Alameda av”, Insurance agent?[Oakland, ALAMEDA, and Berkeley Directory 1895]{ancestry.com}

1896, Nov. 12 -- PURCHASE OF CEMETERY LOT: Peter (age 65) and Elizabeth D. Perrine purchase a lot at Mountain View Cemetery with space for four adult caskets. Probably intended for themselves and their two children, Charles D. and Pamphylia. Actually buried there were Peter, Elizabeth, their grandchild Pamphylia M. (Busk) Churchill and their great grandchild, Fred Churchill. From burial dates it appears that Fred died at birth and his mother died a month later. ---- Peter as an insurance agent may have been more aware than most of this type of planning. ----Their son, Charles Dillon Perrine, died and was buried in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1951, where he was director of the National Observatory from 1909-36. The death date and location of their daughter, Pamphylia McCauley Perrine, is unknown. [Mtn. View Cemetery ledger]{PerrinePlot25MtViewCemRecords}

1897 --- RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Age 66. “Perrine, Peter, solr (solicitor?), r 2138 Alameda av”[Husted’s Oakland, ALAMEDA, and Berkeley Directory 1897]{ancestry.com}

1898 --- PHYS. DESCRIPTN, OCCUPATION, RESIDENCE: “Peter Perrine, age 65, Ht: 5ft 8in, Complexion: fair, Color of eyes: blue, Color of hair: gray, b. Pennsylvania, Occupation: Agent, Ward: Alameda 5, Address: 2138 Alameda Ave.”[Great (Voter) Register, Alameda County, Alameda, Precinct No. 6] Insurance agent?

1899 --- RESIDENCE, OCCUPATION: Age 68. “Perrine, Peter, r (retired?) 2138 Alameda av”[Husted’s Oakland, ALAMEDA, and Berkeley Directory 1899]{ancestry.com}

1900 Census: RESIDENCE: 2138 Alameda Avenue, Alameda city, Alameda Co., California; Head: Peter Perrine; age 69, b. Feb. 1831 in Pennsylvania, Parents b. Pennsylvania, Insurance agent, Owns Home Free and clear; Elizabeth D. Perrine, Wife, b. July 1839 in Ohio, age 60, Married for 36 years, Est. m. 1864, Mother of 2 children, Father b. Pennsylvania, Mother b. Ohio; Pamphylia M. Busk, G-daughter, b. June 1892, age 7, b. in California, Father b. California, Mother b. Ohio, At School 10 months. {ancestry.com}

1900-02 --- RESIDENCE: California Voter Registration: Peter Perrine, 2138 Alameda Ave, Alameda, Alameda Co,Calif.

1904 --- RESIDENCE: California Voter Registration: Peter Perrine, same address as in 1900. Age 73.

1906, 1908 --- RESIDENCE: California Voter Registration: Peter Perrine, agent, same address as in 1900. Age 75.

1910 Census: RESIDENCE: 2138 Alameda Ave., ALAMEDA City, Alameda County, California; Head: Peter Perrine, age 79, Married for 46? yrs, Profession: Own income, Owns home free of mortgage; Elizabeth D. Perrine, Wife, age 40, b. Ohio, Profession: None.{ancestry.com}

1910 Calif. Voter Registration: RESIDENCE: Peter Perrine, 2138 Alameda Ave., retired, Democratic, ALAMEDA Precinct No. 19.

1910 -- RESIDENCE: “Lived at ALAMEDA, California.” Age 79. {D. Perrin,The Huguenot,1910}

1911, Jan. 3 --- BIRTH, DEATH (stillborn) of great grandson, Fred Churchill, Alameda, California.

1911, Jan. 4 --- BURIAL of great grandson, Fred Churchill, Perrine Family Plot, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California.

1911, Feb. 16 --- BURIAL OF Grand-daughter, Pamphylia McCauley (Busk) Churchill interred a month after interment (Jan. 4) of stillborn son Fred Churchill (Peter’s great grandchild). Peter, age 80. Both buried in Perrine family lot (220) at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California.{PerrinePlot25MtViewCemRecords}

1913 -- FAMILY: Birth of: “Maria (Mary) Lyford Perrine: Que es nieta por linea paterna (paternal line), de Don Pedro (Peter) Perrine y Dona Elizabeth McCauley y por linea materna (maternal line) de Don Jorge (George) Smith y de Dona Maria Lyford.” Translation: Mary Lyford (Perrine) who is born of the paternal line of Peter Perrine and Elizabeth McCauley and of the maternal line of GEORGE SMITH and Mary Lyford. {Perrine,MaryLyford,BirthCert}

1914 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: World War I begins in Europe. His son, Charles D. Perrine is almost prevented by Russian, German and French war preparations from returning from the Crimea, Russian Empire where he was leading a solar eclipse expedition from the Argentine Cordoba Observatory. He succeeded in returning via Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia; Finland, Sweden, Norway, and England.

1916 --- RESIDENCE: “Peter Perrine, r (retired?) 2138 Ala av”, age 85.[ALAMEDA City Directory, 1916, see photo]{ancestry.com}

1917 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: United States enters World War I.

1919 --- CONTEXTUAL EVENT: Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I.

1920 US Census (Jan. 2): RESIDENCE: 2138 Alameda Ave., ALAMEDA City, Precinct 19, Alameda Co., California. Head: Peter Perrine, age 88, est. b. 1832 in Pennsylvania, Married. Spouse: Elizabeth D. Perrine, age 80. No children listed in household.{ancestry.com}

1920 Census: RESIDENCE OF SISTER: His wife’s sister, Maria/Marie McCauley (age 75) lived next door at 2134 Alameda Ave.

1920 Calif. Voter Registration: RESIDENCE: Peter Perrine, 2138 Alameda Ave., retired, Democratic, ALAMEDA Precinct No. 19.

1921, June 17 --- DEATH OF SPOUSE, Elizabeth, at ALAMEDA, California.

1922, May 28 --- DEATH: “Peter Perrine, Spouse’s Initials: E D, Age units: Yrs, Age: 91, Place of Death: County #60 (ALAMEDA), Date of death: 5-28-22, Date filed: 22, State file #: 21028 (on death certificate)” [Death Index, State of California, 1905-1929]

1922, May 28 --- DEATH CERTIFICATE: Full Name: Peter Perrine; Place of Death: 2318 (transcript error?) Alameda Ave., ALAMEDA, Alameda Co., California; Wife: Elizabeth D. Perrine; Occupation: Insurance Agent; Birthplace: Penn.; Name of Father: Isaac Perrine, b. Penn.; Maiden Name of Mother: Margaret Irwin, b. Pa.; Length of Residence at Place of Death: 33 yrs, 6 mos, 19 days, (Same for In California); Informant: Mrs. P. M. Dightman, 332-13th St., Oakland (Caretaker?); Dr. W. O. Smith attended deceased from May 19, 1922 (date of stroke?) to May 28, 1922, last saw him alive on May 28, 1922; Cause of Death: Cerebral Apoplexy (stroke?), Duration: 9 days; Contributory Cause: Arterio sclerosis, Date name recorded on certificate: May 29, 1922; Place of Burial: Mt. View Cemetery; Date of Burial: May 31, 1922; Undertaker: Hull Undertaking Co., Berkeley, Cal; Embalmer’s License: #379.[Image in Wallet]{Perrine,Peter,DeathCert1922}

1922, May 31 --- BURIAL: “Place of Burial: Mt. (Mountain) View Cemetery, Date of Burial: May 31, 1922; Undertaker: Hull Undertaking Co., Berkeley, Cal; Embalmer’s License: #379”.{Perrine,Peter,DeathCert1922}

1922, May 31 --- BURIAL: “Peter Perrine, Book 9, Page 91 (of MVC death cert records), Plot 25, Lot 220”[Grave Record Book, 1915 - 1928, Mountain View Cemetery Office, July 2010]

1922, May 31 --- BURIAL: “Interments in ‘Plot 25/Lot 220, Perrine’, Interment Date: Fred Churchill, Jan. 4, 1911, grave c 1 (c for child?); Pamphylia McCauley Churchill, Feb. 16, 1911, grave a 2 (a for adult?); Peter Perrine, May 31, 1922, grave a3; Eliza D. Perrine, June 5, 1930”, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California. [Document images in Wallet]{PerrinePlot25MtViewCemRecords}

BURIAL MARKER: “PERRINE” and “P. M. C.” (Pamphylia McCauley Churchill) engraved on marble curb (of pathway) between two marble curb markers engraved “220”.