The Perry brothers evidently were depending on revenue from their magazine and local sales to cover acquisition and publication costs, because unlike a handful of publishers with similar output, they were not a song-poem firm, the type that charged the composer or lyricist to publish their piece. The Perry firm also became an outlet for composers from throughout the Midwest, albeit most of them were from the Kansas City and Sedalia areas, and a relatively large number of them were female. Andrew was married to Missouri native Clara Marie Jegglin in 1894, and their only daughter June was born in June of 1895. Their daughter Margaret was born on July 17, 1895. On the personal side, Philip was married in 1888 to Berlin, Germany, native Marie von Weidemann. Band and orchestral arrangements became a staple as well. The Perry magazine would grow into national circulation by the early 1890s, thanks to good advertising in the trades and other places. They also created or adapted method books for piano, parlor organ (one of their specialties), and various other instruments. While still running their retail outlet in Sedalia, an effort to expand the music publishing business was undertaken by Phil in an increase in compositions and arrangements, some of them from older pieces that he freshened up a bit. Perry & Sons' Music Company, the name it would use until at least 1900.
In the early 1880s, Phil's brother Andrew joined the firm, which was changed to A.W. The 1880 census showed Austin and Philip both engaged as music dealers in Sedalia, and they were listed in town records as A.W. His Sedalia store, which a teen-aged Philip was running in his absence by 1875, offered a variety of instruments and tuning services as well. By the mid-1870s Perry was a major dealer for Mason and Hamlin musical instruments covering western and central Missouri, and even reaching into Arkansas and Texas as a traveling representative. He was advertising pianos and organs for sale as early as 1875 in the Sedalia Democrat. Perry opened his first music store around 1872 to 1873. In the early 1870s the Perry family migrated southeast to Pettis County, Missouri, settling in the expanding railroad and cattle town of Sedalia, Missouri, where they would remain. The 1870 record showed Austin working as a pension agent.
It was there that they had added a son, Andrew Jackson (undoubtedly named after the seventh U.S. This is only a representative sampling of a few hundred of them.ĭuring the mid-1860s, Austin relocated west to Missouri, where his growing family was enumerated in 1870 in Saint Joseph, north of Kansas City. A full accounting of the roster of composers who were published by A.W.
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