From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Henry Perry (restaurateur)
Henry Perry (restaurateur)
Henry Perry (1875 – March 22, 1940) was a restaurateur At his death, Charlie Bryant took over the business;
who is considered the "father of Kansas City barbecue." he, in turn, sold it to his brother Arthur, who made the
Perry was born in Shelby County, Tennessee near sauce a little sweeter when he relocated the restaurant,
Memphis and worked on steamboat restaurants on the Arthur Bryant’s, to 1727 Brooklyn in the same neighbor-
Mississippi River and Missouri River before moving to hood.
Kansas City, Missouri in 1907. In 1908 he began serving Also, Arthur Pinkard, who had worked for Perry,
smoked meats to workers in the Garment District in helped George Gates found Gates and Sons Bar-B-Q.
Downtown Kansas City from an alley stand.
He then moved his stand to 17th and Lydia map in the
famed inner city neighborhood of 18th Street and Vine.
Source
He later moved a few blocks away within the neigh- • Kansas City Public Library biography of Henry Perry
borhood of 19th and Highland, where he operated out of Persondata
an old trolley barn throughout the 1920s and 1930s when Name Perry, Henry
the neighborhood became famed for its Kansas City Jazz
during the Tom Pendergast era. Alternative names
Customers paid 25 cents for hot meat smoked over Short description
oak and hickory and wrapped in newsprint. Perry’s sauce Date of birth 1875
was described as "harsh, peppery" (rather than sweet).
Place of birth
Perry’s menu included such barbecue standards of the
day as beef and wild game such as possum, woodchuck, Date of death March 22, 1940
and raccoon. Place of death
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• 1875 births
• 1940 deaths
• People from Shelby County, Tennessee
• Pendergast era
• People from the Kansas City metropolitan area
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