John C. Perisho, father of Mrs. Job Harris, was born July 11, 1826, in North Carolina, and his death occurred on July 5, 1884. He married in Indiana, March 25, 1847. They came to Iowa and settled in Providence township, in 1855, and here started in life in true pioneer fashion; built a log cabin and here Mr. Perisho followed farming and also his trade of blacksmith. A short time before his death he moved to LeGrand, Marshall county.

He was a member of the Friends church. His wife, Fanny Marsh, was the daughter of Elias and Edith Marsh. She was born June 13, 1827, and her death occurred on December 27, 1873. The following children were born to them: Edith S., wife of the subject, was born November 17, 1849; Elias, born March 12, 1853, lives in Providence township; William J., born October 2, 1855, the year the town of New Providence was laid out, lives in the town of Union; Martha Ann, born September 15, 1858, married Joseph Plummer and they live at Monument, Logan county, Kansas; Thomas C., born April 7, 1861, lives in Greenleaf, Idaho; Allen T. B., born February 24, 1855, and Mary S., born March 17, 1866, are both deceased; Jesse, born August 11, 1870, married October 23, 1898; he was a pastor in the Friends church, and his death occurred on March 31, 1904, having been survived by his wife until September 12, 1909; Charles, born October 25, 1873, died October 22, 1881, of diphtheria. John C. married again, his last wife being Bulah Farquhar, and this union resulted in the birth of three children: Herold, born July 13, 1875, lives in LeGrand, Iowa; May, born December 25, 1876, married Frank King and lives at Minneapolis, Minnesota; Merle, born May 10, 1879, lives at LeGrand, Iowa.

John C. Perisho was the son of Nathan and Mary Perisho. They spent the greater part of their lives in Indiana, to which state they came from North Carolina. He married a second time, his last wife being Sarah Chapel. By the first union were born Joshua, John, Mary and Martha, and by the second union Catherine, Thomas and Libbie.