Eber Carle Perrow (1880–1968) was an American professor of English who wrote about the literary history of the last will and testament and southern folk songs.
[7] While a student at Trinity, he wrote about the controversy that ensued from Trinity professor John Spencer Bassett's editorial "Stirring Up the Fires of Racial Antipathy" about the work of Democratic Party aligned editorialists.
[2] His Songs and Rhymes from the South was published in the Journal of American Folk-Lore in three parts.
[12][13] The Berea Collection includes "correspondence, song texts, and folklore narrative material collected from students by folklore scholar E. C. Perrow, while he was teaching at the University of Louisville diring the early teens of the 1900s.
Narrative subject areas include anecdotes, games, riddles, rhymes and superstitions."