Perry Jackson Eggborn (November 1, 1817 – June 29, 1866) was a plantation owner, two-term member of the Virginia House of Delegates and judge in Culpeper County.
[1] The firstborn son of George Eggborn (1796–1848) and his wife Amy Ann McQueen (1801–1835), the family moved to Culpeper county in 1820.
In 1850, he was among investors in the Hazel River Canal Company (which tried to make that river navigable to the Rappahannock Canal), and four years later also invested in the El Dorado Turnpike Company (to connect the Rappahannock Turnpike with Culpeper Courthouse).
[4] William Eggborn enlisted as a private in the Confederate 7th Virginia Infantry under Captain J.C. Porter during the American Civil War.
[6] Although he died shortly thereafter, Eggborn came to support the Republicans, in part because of financial mismanagement by local officeholders with respect to the Hazel canal (such as paying former delegate George Ficklin's estate more for damage to his races and dam in 1853 than he had recently paid for them).