Benjamin Luther Perry, Jr., was born in Eatonville, Florida, on 27 February 1918 to parents Benjamin Luther Perry, Sr., and Annie Lee Perry. He received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Education from Florida A&M and a Master’s in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State College in 1942. He enlisted in the US Army in 1943 and was discharged in 1946. He married Helen Neomah (Shown as “Naomi” on Marriage Certificate) Harrison 12 August 1944 in Monroe, North Carolina. After serving in the Army, he completed a Ph.D. in Land Economics at Cornell University. He was struck by a car on 10 March 1997 and died eleven days later, on 21 Mar 1997, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Economics of agronomic responses to lime and phosphate on 48 Iowa farm unit-test demonstration farms, 1937-1941
Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990001486320102756
Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Present status of Agricultural Departments in 17 Negro land-grant colleges, 1935
Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990008958610102756
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Biography available at HBCU Connections at Iowa State University : Benjamin L. Perry, Jr. ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Benjamin_L._Perry,_Jr. )
