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                 From the Boston Courier
                  The Late Jacob Perkins

A simple and unostentatious notice of the demise of this remarkable man is all the tribute that the public press has yet paid to his memory. The merits of our ingenious countryman deserve more. He has passed quietly away from the scene of his labors; but he has left his mark upon the age.
  He was descended from one of the oldest families of that ancient portion of the State of Massachusetts, the country of Essex - a region of stubborn soil, but rich in its productions of men. Matthew Perkins, his father, was a native of Ipswich, and his ancestor was one of the first settlers of that town. Matthew Perkins removed to Newburyport early in life, and here Jacob Perkins was born, July 9th, 1766. He received such education as the common schools of that day furnished, and nothing more. What they were in 1770 may be guessed. At the age of twelve he was put apprentice to a goldsmith of Newburyport, of the name of Davis. His master died three years afterwards, and Perkins, at fifteen, was left with the management of the business. This was the age of gold beads, which our grandmothers still hold in long remembrance - and who wonders? this young goldsmith gained great reputation for the skill and honesty with which he transformed the old Portuguese joes, then in circulation, into these showy ornaments for the female bosom. Shoe-buckles were another article in great vogue, and Perkins, whose inventive powers had begun to expand during his apprenticeship, turned his attention to the manufacturing of them. He discovered a new method of plating, by which he could undersell the imported buckles. This was a profitable branch of business till the revolutions of fashion drove shoe-buckles out of the market. Nothing could be done with strings, and Perkins put his head-work upon other matters.
  Machinery of all sorts was then in a very rude state, and a clever artisan was scarcely to be found. It was regarded as a great achievement to effect a rude copy of some imported machine. Under the old confederation, the State of Massachusetts established a mint for striking copper coin; but it was not so easy to find a mechanic equal to the task of making a die. Perkins was but twenty-one years of age when he was employed by the Government for this purpose; and the old Massachusetts cents, stamped with the Indian and the Eagle, now to be seen only in collections of curiosities, are the work of his skill. He next displayed his ingenuity in nail machinery, and at the age of twenty-four invented a machine which cut and headed nails at one operation. This was first put in operation at Newburyport, and afterwards at Amesbury, on the Merrimac, where the manufacture of nails has been carried on for more than half a century.
   Perkins would have realized a great fortune from this invention, had his knowledge of the world and the tricks of trade had been any way equal to his mechanical skill; and he turned his attention to various other branches of the mechanic arts, in several of which he made essential improvements, as fire engines, hydraulic machines, &c. One of the most important of his inventions was in the engraving of bank bills. Forty years ago counterfeiting was carried on with an audacity and a success which would seem incredible at the present time. The ease with which the clumsy engraving of the bank bills of that day were imitated, was a temptation to every knave who could scratch copper; and counterfeits flooded the country to the serious detriment of trade. Perkins invented the stereotype check-plate, which no art of counterfeiting could match; and a security was thus given to bank paper which it had never before known.
  There was hardly any mechanical science in which Perkins did not exercise his inquiring and inventive spirit. The town of Newburyport enjoyed the benefit of his skill in every way in which he could contribute to the public welfare or amusement. During the war of 1812 his ingenuity was employed in constructing machinery for boring out old honey-combed cannon, and in perfecting the science of gunnery. He was a skilful pyrotechnics, and the Newburyport fireworks of that day were thought to be unrivalled in the United States. The boys, we remember, looked up to him as a second Fause, or Cornelius Agrippa, and the writer of this article has not forgotten the delight and amazement with which he learned from Jacob Perkins the mystery of compounding serpents and rockets.
  About the time a person named Redheffer made pretensions to a discovery of the perpetual motion. He was traversing the United States with a machine exhibiting his discovery. Certain weights moved the wheels, and when they had run down, certain other weights restored the first. The experiment seemed perfect, for the machine continued to move without cessation; and Redheffer was trumpeted to the world as a man who had solved the great problem. Perkins gave the machine an examination, and his knowledge of the powers of mechanism enabled him to perceive at once that the visible appliances were inadequate to the results. He saw that a hidden power existed somewhere, and his skilful calculations detected the corner of the machine from which is proceeded. "Pass a saw through that post, said he, "and your perpetual motion will stop." The impostor refused to put his machine to such a test; and for a sufficient reason. It was afterwards discovered that a cord passed through this post into the cellar, where an individual was stationed to restore the weights at every revolution.
  The studies, labors, and ingenuity of Perkins, were employed on so great a variety of subjects, that the task of specifying and describing them must be left to one fully acquainted with the history of the mechanic arts in the United States. He discovered a method of softening and hardening steel at pleasure, by which the process of engraving on that metal was facilitated in a most essential degree. He instituted a series of experiments by which he demonstrated the compressibility of water, a problem which for centuries had baffled the ingenuity of natural philosophers. In connection with this discovery, Perkins also invented the bathometer, an instrument for measuring the depth of the sea by the pressure of the water; and the pedometer to measure a ship's rate of sailing.
  Perkins continued to reside in his birthplace till 1816, when he removed from Newburyport to Boston, and subsequently to Philadelphia. His attention was now occupied by steam machinery, which was beginning to acquire importance in the United States. His researches led to the invention of a new method of generating steam, by suddenly letting a small quantity of water into a heated vessel.
  After a short residence in Philadelphia, he removed to London, where his experiments with high pressure steam, and other exhibitions which he gave of his inventive powers, at once brought him into general notice. His uncommon mechanical genius was highly appreciated; and his steam-gun was for some time the wonder of the British metropolis. This gun he invented in the United States, and took out a patent for it in 1819. It attracted the notice of the British government in 1823, and Perkins made experiments with it before the Duke of Wellington and numerous party of officers. At a distance of thirty-five yards he shattered iron targets to pieces, and sent his balls through eleven planks, one inch thick each, and placed an inch apart from one another. This gun was a very ingenious piece of workmanship, and could discharge about 1,000 balls per minute.
  Perkins continued in London during the remainder of his life. He lever became rich. He lacked one quality to secure success in the world financial thrift. Every body but himself profited by his inventions. He was in fact too much in love with the excitement of the chase, to look very strongly at the pecuniary value of the game.
   He died in London July 30th, 1849. The name he leaves behind him is that of the American inventor. It is one which he deserves, and which is his true story. He was entirely self-educated in science, and the great powers of his mind expanded by their innate force. For half a century from the hour of his birth he lived in the town of Newburyport. He he grew up, acquired his knowledge, applied his genius to action, perfected his inventive powers, and gained all his early reputation. At the present day, when books are in the hand of every man, woman, and child, and the rudiments of scientific knowledge are presented to us in thousands of students' manuals, cyclopedias, periodicals, public lectures, &c, we can form no adequate notion of the obstacles which lay in the way of a young man beginning his scientific pursuits at the time when Perkins was a youth. Imagine the state of popular science in 1787, and some taint notion may be obtained of the difficulties which the young artist was compelled to encounter in the preliminary steps of every undertaking. The exact sciences were but slightly regarded, even by those who made pretensions to complete learning in those days, and a great proficient in the mechanic arts could only hope to be considered in the light of a clever carpenter or blacksmith. Men did not dream of such fame as that of Watt and Arkwright. It is much to the honor of his townsmen that Perkins was, from his earliest days, held in the highest esteem by them. They fully appreciated his genius, and were proud to honor him. In the latter years of his life, when he removed from the land of his birth, his thoughts and feelings always turned homeward, and he never ceased to express the home of returning to lay his bones in his native soil. His wish has not been gratified, but his memory will remain forever connected with the spot.

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1854: Jan. 11th - Boston Evening Transcript - Boston, MA

Death of Hon. THOMAS HANDASYD PERKINS. We are called upon today to announce the death of our esteemed and venerated citizen, Hon. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, which event took place last night at his mansion house in this city. Mr. Perkins was born in State street, December 14th, 1764, and was consequently eighty nine years old last month. His father, James Perkins, was a wine merchant, who resided in King, now State street, on the present location of Tappan's stone building, opposite Mackerel Lane, now Killby street. Col Perkins was probably the only survivor that had any remembrance of the Boston massacre. He was a small lad when it occurred, and the sight of the dead bodies of the victims, and the frozen blood in the street, made so strong an impression upon his mind that it was never effaced.
   For more than sixty years the name of Mr. Perkins has been identified with the commercial history of Boston. During the last quarter of a century he has, by common consent, occupied the prominent position as being the leading merchant of New England. And nobly has he sustained, by his enterprise, public spirit and munificent charities, the full expectations of the public in this commanding station.
   Mr. Perkins was lone in public life. He was one of the most active and efficient members of the Federal party of former years, and his name occurs on every page of the political history of this State in the early part of the present century. He was a Senator from Suffolk and Representative from Boston for a long period; and was always a prominent actor in legislative and public business.
   Mr. Perkins was a large benefactor to many objects of public interest. He was the projector of the Quincy Railway, which was completed in 1827, and was the first railway enterprise in the United States.
   He was one of the most active, zealous, and efficient promoters of the Bunker Hill Monument. We quote the touching and most felicitous allusion to the services of Mr. Perkins, in this enterprise, from the oration pronounced by Mr. Webster at the completion of the Monument, in 1813;

   I have spoken only of those who are no longer numbered with the living. But a long life, now drawing towards its close, always distinguished by acts of public spirit, humanity, and charity, forming a character which has already become historical, and sanctified by public regard and the affection of friends, many confer even on the living the proper immunity of the dead, and be the fit subject of honorable mention and warm commendation. Of the early projectors of the design of this monument, one of the most prominent, the most zealous, and the most efficient, is Thomas H. Perkins. It was beneath his ever-hospitable roof that those whom I have mentioned, and others yet living and now present, having assembled for the purpose, adopted the first step towards erecting a monument on Bunker Hill. Long may he remain, with unimpaired faculties, in the wide field of his usefulness! His charities have distilled, like the dews of heaven; he has fed the hungry, and clothed the naked; he has given sight to the blind; and for such virtues there is a reward on high, on which all human memorials, all language of brass and stone, are but humble types and attempted imitations.

   The Institution for the Blind was one of the cherished objects of the benevolent sympathies of the deceased. Many years ago he presented his mansion house in Pearl street, estimated to be worth $40,000, for the use of the Asylum. His munificence induced the organization to assume the corporate name of "The Perkins Institution, and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind:
   He made the largest donation to the Mercantile Library Association which that useful institution has ever received from a single individual. At his recommendation the institution obtained an act of incorporation a few years since. In the eloquent anniversary address delivered before the Association in 1845, by Hon Robert C. Winthrop, the following allusion was made to the decease...

   "Yet you would not forgive me, gentleman, nor could I excuse it to myself, where I to omit an more distinct allusion to the latest and largest benefactor of your own association; one, whose liberality within the past year has more than doubled your pecuniary resources; one, by whose encouragement you are now cherishing the hope, that those resources may soon be relieved from the exhausting load of a large annual rent, and that no distant day may find you engaged as your sister association of Philadelphia has but now been, in dedicating a hall of your own. Thomas Handasyd Perkins, however, I need not say, depends on no acts of liberality or words of encouragement to this association, for his title to the affection and admiration of us all. To a long life of unsurpassed commercial enterprise and honor, he has seemed to add a second life of equally unsurpassed benevolence and munificence."
                           "For his bounty,
             There is no winter in it; an autumn 'tis
                That grows the more by reaping"

In his last speech to the citizens of Boston, in Fancull Hall, on Saturday, May 22nd, 1852, Mrs. Webster made the following allusion to Mr. Perkins:

    "Gentleman, my heart warms, by blood quickens in my veins, when I reflect upon the magnificent gifts, grants, and provisions made for the purpose of education, for the morals, enlightenment, and religious instruction of the citizens, and for the relief of the poor by the affluence of Boston. And I never think of all this without having my attention attracted to a venerable citizen now in my eye, Hon. Thomas H. Perkins. [Col. Perkins occupied a seat upon the platform. Three cheers were given for him.] Will he, at my quest, rise and show his benevolent countenance to the people? [Col. Perkins arose and received three more hearty rounds of applause.] God bless him!. He is an honor to this city, and honor to his State, and an honor to his country. His memory will be perfumed by his benevolent actions, and go down as sweet odor to our children's children."

   The last public movement which engaged the attention of the deceased was the completion of the Washington Monument. This was the last anxiety of his heart, and the latest interviews many of our public men had with him were for the purpose of engaging public attention in that patriotic work.
   For a person of his years, Mr. Perkins has enjoyed remarkably good heath. He was able to visit Saratoga last summer, and spent many weeks in his private residence in that place. We last saw him at the funeral of his aged friend, the late Samuel Appleton, Esq. His aged form and venerable appearance on that occasion was a subject of general comment, and it was quite evident that in but a short time he would follow his friend to the grave.
   We have neither time nor space to comment further upon the life and character of the deceased. Nor do we feel that there is any public necessity for such a review at our hands. The life and character of Col. Perkins are too well known in this community to require the press to more than give expression to the public sentiment in regard to his long career of usefulness. He was a worshipper at the Federal Street Church, and doubtless, Rev. Dr. Gannett, the pastor, will take public notice of his death - a service for which he is most competent.
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1862: Feb. 8th - Hartford Weekly Times - Hartford, CT

Death of Henry Perkins, Esq. Another of our prominent and highly respected citizens is dead. Henry Perkins departed this life last evening , at his residence in this city. He passed away quietly, conscious almost to the last hour of his life, and welcoming death as a joyous relief from sickness and great suffering of nearly two years duration. For some months past he appeared quite happy in the prospect of final dissolution. He was in the 48th year of his age. Mr. Perkins graduated at Trinity College, and subsequently fitted himself for the legal profession. In 1846 he was elected by the Legislature Judge of Probate for the District of Hartford. In 1850, that office becoming elective by an amendment of the Constitution, he was chosen by the people of the District and reelected annually to that office, till 1858, when he declined to be longer a candidate. About that time he was elected president of the Mercantile Bank. On several occasions he was chosen as a member of the Court of Common Council, holding at one time the seat of Alderman, and at another that of Councilman. Last Spring he resigned his seat as Alderman, on account of his health. He also resigned the presidency of the Mercantile Bank for the same reason. In every official position, Judge Perkins discharged his duties with ability and the strictest fidelity. As a citizen he was universally respected. He leaves a wife, but no children. His memory will be cherished by many friends who knew his real worth.
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1866: June 29th - New Hampshire Statesman

Concord, NY. Mr. Frank Perkins, died, aged 19 years, youngest son of Hon. Hamilton E. and Clara B. Perkins.
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1867: May 27th - Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, MA.

Brookline, ME. Mrs. Caroline Gardiner, aged 67m, died, wife off Wm. H. Gardiner, and daughter of the late Thomas H. Perkins.
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1868: Oct. 7th - Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, MA.

Newport, MA. Mr. George Cabot Perkins, aged 65, years, died.
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1874: Feb. 12th - Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, MA.

Boston, MA. Mr. Alfred Perkins, aged 53 years, 3 months.
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1882 - Oct. 16th - Unknown Newspaper - Caledonia County, Vermont

Mr. Ezra Perkins, aged 87 years, died at the residence of his step-son, Daniel Frost, Oct. 16th. Mr. Perkins has been confined to the bed for a number of months, suffering from paralytic shock. He was a member of the Baptist Church here, and exhibited Christian patience during his sickness, and was tenderly cared for by Mr. Frost and family.
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1886: Dec. 15th - Desert Evening News - Salt Lake City, Utah

Died, 10th November, 1886, in St. George, Washington Co., Utah. William Gant Perkins. He was the son of Ute Perkins and Sarah Gant Perkins, was born in South Carolina, January 11th, 1801. His father moved to Tennessee in 1805, and Wm. G. Perkins lived there until 1829. He married Dicy Ray the 22nd of February, 1818, by whom he had a son and daughter. He moved to Hancock County, Illinois, in 1829, and in 1838 was baptized by Joel H. Johnson, and was ordained a Teacher. He was ordained a High Priest under the hands of Hyrun Smith in 1843, and set apart under the hands of President Brigham Young and H.C. Kimball to act as Bishop in Macedona. He took a mission with Andrew Perkins to the southern part of Illinois in 1843, and in 1846 received his endowments, started west with his family, remained at Council Bluffs two years, in 1848 came to Salt Lake City, and was made Bishop of the Seventh Ward. May, 1853, he married Hannah Gold, and in 1861 was called on a mission in St. George; on the 23rd of March, 1862, he was set apart as counselor to William Fawcett, President of the High Priests Quorum of the St. George Stake, and acted in that capacity over 24 years, or until his death. He was ordained a Patriarch under the hands of President Brigham Young and G. A. Smith, Apostles Erastus Snow and Brigham Young, Jun., and Joseph W. Young, President of the Southern mission State of Zion, on the 27th of March, 1870. The funeral services were held in the Tabernacle at St. George, on the 17th of November, 1886, at 2 p.m. Wm. Fawcett, President of the High Priests Quorum of the St. George Stake, spoke, and also the Presidency of the Stake, Bishop David H. Cannon and High Counselor Charles Smith. A large number of attendants and vehicles escorted him to the grave.
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1887: Aug. 30th - Desert Evening News - Salt Lake City,  Utah

Patty (Perkins) Perkins, daughter of the late Patriarch William G. & Dicy (Ray) Perkins, died in the First Ward, St. George, on the 16th day of August, 1887. She was the widow of William Perkins and also his cousin. She was born in Tennessee, January 19th, 1819, baptized in 1840; came with her father to Salt Lake City in 1849, and was married there to William Job Perkins. Her husband was sent on a mission to the Sandwich Islands and she accompanied him and remained with him until his return to Salt Lake City. In 1864 she, with her father and husband, was called to St. George. He father, mother and husband died there. She had been sick about eight months and suffered considerably, but in the end passed away like a person going to sleep. She died of cancer of the neck and one side of her face. She passed away full of faith in the Gospel and a hope of a glorious resurrection.
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1888: April 23rd - Daily Evening Bulletin - Mayville, KY

               REUBEN PERKINS, OF BATH

His Body Found Floating in the Ohio River Near the Mouth of Beasley Creek

On the night of February 1 a man named Reuben Perkins walked into the Ohio river and was drowned at the home of J. N. Robinson, near Broshears' Landing, in Charleston Bottom. Perkins' home was in Bath County, hear Sherburne. He formerly lived at Mr. Robinson's and had gone there the evening in question on a visit. It was after dark when he arrived and he failed to find anyone at home. He had been drinking considerably and while in a half intoxicated condition, he wandered over the river bank and on into the water. His struggles and cries for help were heard on the opposite side of the river, but the unfortunate man soon sank to a watery grave. A body was found floating in the river last Saturday afternoon at a point near the mouth of Beasley Creek, a few miles below where he was drowned, and it was identified as that of Perkins. It was dressed in a heavy suit of cloths, with overcoat and heavy boots. A mitten or glove was on one hand. In the pockets were found a bottle partly filled with liquor and $59.15 in money. Part of the money consisted of two twenty-dollar bills, that looked as bright almost as when first issued. The body was badly swollen and showed evidence of having remained in the water a long time. Squire Earnshaw, of Dover, was summoned and held an inquest, the jury returning a verdict in accordance wit the above facts. They body was afterwards taken to Dover and buried. Perkins left a wife and ten children. His family been notified of the finding of the body.
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1890: April 21st - Sacramento daily record-union. Sacramento, CA

William L. Perkins died at Oroville, CA Saturday. He was very well known throughout Northern California and in this city. He was a brother to ex-Governor George C. Perkins, and also of D. K. Perkins of Oroville, CA. Mr. Perkins was a native of Maine and 50 years of age. He came to this state perhaps twenty years ago, and has resided almost constantly in Northern California. He was for many years in the insurance business with E. W. Fogg, and later had been employed in the grocery establishment of Perkins & Wise as head clerk. The deceased leaves a wife and child.

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1891: April 28th - The Colorado Chieftain - Pueblo, Colorado

Mrs. Gertrude Slack, sister of Mr. George W. Perkins, and well known in Pueblo as Miss Gertie Perkins, died in this city yesterday at 3 p.m. Her funeral will occur at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning from St. Peters church. Friends are invited to attend the services without further notice. The sorrowing relations have the sympathy of many friends in their great sorrow.
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1891: June 8th - The Rocky Mountain News - Denver, Colorado

HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS, Colo. June 7th - The sensational article in a recent issue of the Republican regarding the death of Mrs. Daniel Perkins on Antelope creek in this county last summer has created considerable excitement in this place. Your correspondent has investigated the matter and the statements made by Mrs. Wescott, the mother of the deceased, are denied in every important particular. Everything indicates that Mrs. Perkins died from blood poisoning and her husband did everything in his power to save her life. Investigation in the county court records show that Mr. Perkins' appointment as administrator and guardian was perfectly regular and that it did not immediately follow his wife's burial. The property of deceased, now belongs to Mr. Perkins' little daughter is sad to be the cause of all of the trouble.
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1892: Feb. 24th - Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Bangor, ME.

Mrs. Abbie H. Perkins, aged 65 years, died, wife of Augustus Perkins. She was a sister of Mrs. A. G. Perkins' wife, who died about two weeks ago.
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1892: March 23rd - Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Issue 71; col F

A. G. Perkins died March 15th, 1892, aged about eighty. Mr. Perkins has lived in Castine for twenty-six years. He moved from Brooksville, and was in trade in Brooksville for many years, also was with his brother, Augustus Perkins, for some years, in Castine. He retired from business about twenty years ago. He leaves two sons and one daughter. His oldest son, Lucius M. Perkins, lives in Alfred, ME, his youngest son, Frank J. Perkins, and his daughter have lived at home. His death makes the third in the same house within six weeks, his wife and his brothers wife, having died before.

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1893: Jan. 6th -LOWELL DAILY COURIER, Lowell, MA.

Jane M. C. Perkins died at the residence of her son, Samual J. Lovrien, 28 Dover street today, at the advanced age of 83 years. She bad lived in Lowell fifty years. She was the widow of James W. Perkins, and a native of Alexandria, N.H.
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1894: May 4th - Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO.

Denver, Co. Mrs. Catherine Perkins, died.
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1895: March 26th - The Daily Picayune, (New Orleans, LA) pg. 12; Issue 61; col A

Mr. R. C. Perkins, commercial agent of the Mobile and Ohio, was called to the bedside of his father at Brookhaven, Colonel John E. Perkins, who died there in his 85th year. Mr. Perkins has been with his father for the past few weeks attending him, and when Mr. Perkins came back to the city Sunday it was with the hope that the old gentleman was improving. A telegram, however, hastily summoned him back and he arrived there in time to see his father pass away. Colonel Perkins was one of the oldest merchants in Brookhaven, having been for some years retired from business. He was generally loved and respected, and his death is a sad bereavement to his family, several members of which remain to mourn his departure.
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1895: June 19th - Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Issue 145; col F

Mr. George Augustus Perkins died in Wendell, MA, May 15th, 1895, aged 67. He was born in Weld, ME, June 24th, 1827, the son of Dr. Lafayette and Dorcus (Abbott) Perkins. He removed to Farmington, ME in 1836 and fitted for college at Farmington Academy 1840 to 1845. He entered Bowdoin as a sophomore in 1846 and graduated in 1849. He entered Bangor Seminary in 1849 and was principal of Oxford Normal School, South Paris, ME, in 1850-'51 and of the high school, Norridgework, 1857. He was graduated from Bangor Seminary in 1853 and was assistant teacher of Hebrew for some months. He was ordained as a missionary of the A.B.C.F.M at Farmington, ME, May 25th, 1854. He married Miss Sarah E. Farrington, of Brewer, ME, July 17th, 1854. They sailed from Boston for Turkey for a few months, then at Marash from 1855 to 1859. They returned to America on account of his wife's health and for two years he was at Farmington and Brewer, most of the time preaching as opportunity offered. He assisted again in the Hebrew department of the Bangor Seminary in 1860 and 1861. After two years of study at the Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven, CT, he sailed for Turkey where he became professor in Robert College, Constantinople. In 1865 he returned to American and in 1866 established a family school for boys in Gorham, ME. He was acting pastor at Pownal, ME , from 1872 to 1875; Luenburg, VT, 1875-8, Raymond, N.H., 1878-80; Salem, N.H., 1880-83; Harvard, Mass, 1884-87; Boxboro, from 1887; West Pictou from 1889; Wendell, 1893-95 to the close of his life. Mr. Perkins was scholarly in his tastes and well adapted as an educator. He was an acceptable pastor, endearing himself to his people by a genial and Christ like spirit. His widow and three sons survive, William A. Perkins, principal of the high school in Worcester, MA; Herbert Perkins of Chicago, IL and Carroll Perkins of Boxboro, MA, with whom his mother will make her home.
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1895: Sept. 5th - Morning Oregonian, Portland, OR.

Sellwood, OR. Mrs. Asa Perkins, died, of Sellwood, OR. Remains taken to the Milwaukie Cemetery.
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1896: July 17th - The Paducah Evening Sun - Paducah, KY

                  MRS. D. A. PERKINS

Intelligence of the death of Mrs. D. H. Perkins, 73 years old, who died yesterday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. G. Orme, in San Antonio, Texas, was received this morning by relatives. The cause of Mrs. Perkins death was general debility. The body will arrive tomorrow and the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock, at the residence of her sister, Miss Willie Gould, 621 Madison street, with burial in Mt. Kenton cemetery. The Rev. M. E. Dodd, pastor of the First Baptist church, will officiate.

Mrs. Perkins resided in Paducha about 40 years, but about one year ago removed to Texas to reside with her daughter. Her husband has been dead many years. She is survived by one sister, Miss Willie Gould, 621 Madison street, and one daughter, Mrs. L. G. Orme, of San Antonio, Texas; and two sons, William Perkins, of San Antonio, and Hugh Perkins, of New Orleans. Mrs. Perkins was a Christian woman and was a member of the Baptist church. She had many friends in the city who were surprised to learn of her death.
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1897: April 8th - The San Francisco call. (San Francisco [Calif.])

Tulare, CA: April 7th, 1897 - D. H. Perkins (Daniel Hubbard Perkins b.1821 NY) an old and esteemed pioneer, died last night, after a lingering illness. "Uncle Dan" as he was familiarly known, had lived in Tulare, CA almost a quarter of a century. He was 76 years old.

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1898: Jan. 28th - The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, LA.

New Orleans, LA, Jan. 26th, 1898. Mr. Arthur P. Perkins, died. His remains will be shipped by the Illinois Central Railroad to Castine, ME.
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1898: Feb. 14th - Salt Lake City Herald - Salt Lake City, Utah

RICHFIELD: Feb. 12th - Today, in Richfield, W. R. Wells and Sarah Johnson Perkins obtained a marriage license. The bride is a widow, 73 years old and the groom is a widow, aged 78. They attempted at first to enshroud the affair in coquetish mystery, but when approached boldly and questioned persistently by the Herald correspondent, at last confessed, blushingly, that President William H. Seegmiller of the Latter-day Saints Sevier stake, will tie their nuptial knot on Sunday or Monday. Both contracting parties have for a long while lived in Richfield. Mrs. Perkins's prior husband, Francis Asbury Perkins, died in Richfield four years ago today. Henrietta Wells, the late lamented spouse of the groom, departed this life two and a half years ago. Confidentially, old man Wells told the correspondent that his union with old lady Perkins is simply a matter of economy and convenience; that each had a little house and lot and were living alone, and that it will be much more homelike for the old gentleman to knock about splitting stove wood and doing the rough chores, while the old lady cooks the victuals and darns the socks; but when together the happy old pair show unmistakable symptoms of a feeling warmer than philanthropy. Wells is a tinker by trade. Mrs. Perkins recently received $10 on a city lot trade and the deputy clerk says she paid him for the license.
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1898: March 28th - The San Francisco call. (San Francisco [Calif.])

Almeda, CA: March 27th, 1898 - Franklin L. Perkins, aged 69 years, died in this city at an early hour this morning from dropsy and a complication of other troubles. He was a native of New York and had resided in this city for twenty-eight years. He was a well known mining man, and had been wealthy, but of late years had lost much of his property. He leaves a son and a daughter. His funeral will take place on Tuesday at 2 pm from the Masonic Temple, and interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery.
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1898: Oct. 30th - The Rocky Mountain News - Denver, Colorado

CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo., Oct 29th - C. C. Perkins died of lockjaw here tonight. The remains will be shipped to Florence tomorrow morning. He was a member of the Red Wing tribe No. 32, I. O. R. M. The local Red Men will conduct the remains to the train.
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1899: Nov. 27th - The Colorado Daily Chieftain - Pueblo, Colorado

After an illness of month months Mrs. Perkins, died at 4 o'clock last Tuesday morning. She had been a faithful member of the Christian church for many years. As death drew near she clearly recognized the fact and spoke often of it as a great relief after all she had suffered. She gave full directions as to all her affairs, how and by whom she desired to be prepared for burial. She expressed also a desire to be buried at Oregon, MO., where she had spent the greater part of her life. Mrs. Perkins leaves one daughter, Mrs. Clyde Darsle and three sons, Will Kennon, of Pueblo; Virgil Kennon, of Denver and Cecil Perkins, of Oregon, MO. After a short services at the house conducted by R. B. Preston and Rev. C. S. Early, the body was taken to Missouri for burial, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Darsle and Mr. and Mrs. Will Kennon. The sympathy of the entire congregation goes out to Mrs. Darsle in her bereavement.
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