Photographer EDY BROTHERS

Elsie Perrin

Date1883

Object number1994.059.001

Label TextThis is Elsie Perrin Wiliams as a child. Elsie Perrin was born in 1878 to Alicia May Day and Daniel Simmons Perrin. Her father was a successful and wealthy businessman well-known across Canada for manufacturing cookies and candy. As their only child, Elsie was the heiress to her father’s fortune; at the time of his death in 1908, Daniel Perrin left a significant inheritance for his daughter in a trust. Following her mother’s death in 1927, Elsie had access to the trust’s income for the rest of her life. Elsie married the British-born Dr. Hadley Williams in 1905. Dr. Williams had received his M.D. from Western University in the late 1880s, and by 1905, was teaching surgery there. He would also go on to become the head of surgery and clinical surgery, as well as to practice both medicine and surgery at London’s St. Joseph’s and Victoria hospitals respectively. Keenly interested in art, Elsie was a member the London Women’s Art Club and was an artist herself. Elsie Perrin Williams died in 1934.

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