Ebenezer Perry

Ebenezer Perry (September 29 1788 – May 1 1876) was a merchant and Canadian political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada from 1871 until his death and at the age of 83, the oldest person ever summoned to the Senate. [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/Senate/SenAgeApp.asp?lang=E&Hist=Y]

He was born in Ernestown (later Bath), Upper Canada in 1788. His father was a United Empire Loyalist from Vermont who had served with the Queen's Rangers and Edward Jessup's Rangers during the American Revolution. The family settled in Township No. 2, later Ernestown. Ebenezer moved to Cobourg in 1815. He built a grist mill there, later known as Pratt's Mill or just "The Mill", and still preserved as a heritage building. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada.

He died in Cobourg in 1876.

His brother, Peter Perry, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada and of the Province of Canada.

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* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=1967&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]