Phil Perry
Born: 1883
Died: April 19, 1948
Married:
Children: John Perry, William Perry
Phil Perry ran a smoke shop on Main Street next door to the Hotel Saranac. He was from Finland, and in 1926 he acted as interpreter for Finnish world champion skater Clas Thunberg, when the latter competed at Pontiac Bay.
He was a member of the Saranac Club in 1926 when it was next door to the old Harrietstown Town Hall, and was there when the hall caught fire.
He lived at 27 Church street.
Plattsburgh Press-Republican, April 21, 1948
Philip Perry
NEW YORK. -- Philip Perry, 85, a Saranac Lake tobacconist here to attend a big league baseball game died yesterday at the New York Athletic Club.
Perry had planned to see the opening game yesterday between the New York Giants and the Brookyn Dodgers with his son, William, a student at Fordham Law School.
Lake Placid News, July 30 1948
NEWS STAND SOLD
Announcement was made of the sale of Phil's Smoke Shop in Hotel Saranac to Jack McDuff of Saranac Lake by members of the family of the late Philip Perry, owner.