Edward Martineau Perine

Edward Martineau Perine (July 31, 1809 – June 5, 1905) was a merchant and planter in Cahaba, Alabama.

Born at Southfield, Staten Island, New York, a son of Edward and Addra Guyon Perine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "the Huguenot", Perine moved to Cahaba, Alabama, in the early 1830s, where he became a wealthy merchant and plantation owner.

Their store was located on the corner of Vine and Second North Streets in Cahaba, directly opposite Bell's Hotel.

Anna M. Gayle Fry, writing in her book Memories of Old Cahaba, describes E. M. Perine as "a merchant prince of ante-bellum days, a Northern gentleman of the old school who was universally beloved by all who knew him."

Perine first married Mary Eliza Snow (1816–1838) of Providence, Rhode Island, on September 13, 1836, in Milledgeville, Georgia.

.Perine's second marriage was to Frances E. "Fannie" Hunter (1825 - 1910) of Sparta, Conecuh County, Alabama, on August 6, 1846.

An attached wing included a kitchen, a laundry, a breakfast room, pantries, servants' quarters and other features.

[3][4] Edward Martineau Perine died June 5, 1892, and was buried at the Presbyterian Cemetery at Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Alabama.