Edward Partridge was the grandson of Massachusetts Congressman Oliver Partridge, Esq., and a member of a family noted for commercial, social, political, and military leadership in Western Massachusetts.
Great grandson of Oliver Partridge (Massachusetts Congressman at Albany 1754, and the Stamp Act Congress of 1765)
Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Stone | Oliver! | Oliver Goldsmith | The Partridge Family | Oliver | Jamie Oliver | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Oliver Sacks | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Oliver Twist | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Oliver Hardy | Oliver Reed | Oliver North | Oliver Nelson | Oliver Hazard Perry | Oliver Lake | Oliver Heaviside | Oliver O. Howard | Oliver Tambo | Oliver Lodge | Oliver Letwin | Oliver Kahn | Oliver Knussen | Paul Oliver | Oliver Tompsett | Oliver Pocher | Damien Oliver | Andy Partridge |
Originally named for Oliver Partridge, one of the three purchasers of the town (along with Governor Francis Bernard), the name was officially changed to Peru in 1806, on the suggestion of the Rev. John Leland, "because it is like the Peru of South America, a mountain town, and if no gold or silver mines are under her rocks, she favors hard money and begins with a P."