1833: Feb. 1st - The Ohio Repository -
Canton, Ohio -
On the 21st Jan.,
ANSON PERKINS of Vienna, Trumbulle, O., was killed by the fall
of a tree.
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1849: Hamilton Intelligencer - Hamilton,
OH
Death of a Good Man - The Cincinnati papers come to use full of
expressions of sorrow for the death of the Rev.
James H. Perkins, which occurred in a sudden and most
distressing manner, on Friday last, a short distance above the city. He
had been suffering for some time past under occasional fits of
melancholy and extreme depression of spirits, produced by a painful
disease, and during one of these paroxysm, it is supposed, he lost his
self-control and in a moment of delirium and insupportable agony, put an
end to his own life. On the day named he left his residence on Walnut
Hills, near Cincinnati, to walk off his depression, as had been his
custom. He went on board the ferry boat to Jamestown, on the Kentucky
side of the river, and was observed by the ferryman to walk hastily to
the stern of the boat, but through his manner and look was noticed to be
strange, nothing more was thought of it till on missing him a few
minutes after and going to look for him, his cloak, hat and a small
memorandum book, in which his name and residence were written, were
found near the edge of the deck, as if thrown off just before the fatal
plunge. Such was the melancholy end of a man who, for his true piety,
unwearied benevolence, and indeed every virtue which adorns the
character of a man, was beloved as few men were, in the community where
he lived. Mrs. Perkins was a man of strong and cultivating intellect, a
earnest and impressive preacher, and one of the best writers of our
country, having been for many years a regular contributor to the North
American Review - in point of ability the first literary journal in
America. Owing to his unpretending and retiring disposition, however,
his reputation in this respect was far below his merits. It was his
distinguishing trait to do good in secret, for its own sake, and not for
the applause of the world. The death of such a man, in the prime of his
life and usefulness, besides the weight of private grief which it must
bear with it, is a public calamity. Never [remarks one of the city
papers ] have we witnessed such universal sadness as been produced
throughout the community by this startling and sorrowful event. The
deceased left a wife and a numerous family to mourn his loss.
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1857: Sept. 29th - The Mt. Vernon
Republican - Mount Vernon, OH
Mr. E. B. PERKINS, a prominent business
man of Monrosville, Ohio, died in that place on the 30th ult.
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1859: Jan. 27th - The Portage
Sentinel - Ravenna, OH
Death of Mr. Jacob Perkins
Our community will be painfully startled
to learn that Mr. JACOB PERKINS,
died at Havanna on Wednesday morning, the 12th of January. A letter has
been received by Joseph Perkins of this city from Junius Dana of
Warren - who went out with the late Mrs. Perkins - merely announcing the
death of his brother, and saying that the remains will leave for New
York or Charleston about the 25th inst. The body had been embalmed, and
Mr. Dana, and Doct. Harmon, of Warren - who also accompanied Mr. Perkins
- will accompany the remains home. Mr. Perkins died of consumption, a
disease which had been making its insidious progress for some years, but
rapidly so since the death of Mrs. Perkins, a year and a half since.
Mrs. Perkins was a daughter of Doct. Tod, physician to the Marine
Hospital, and she also fell victim to consumption. One child is left.
Mr. Jacob Perkins graduated with honor at Yale College. He was a man of
mark, and through strength of talent, moral firmness, and urbanity of
manner, wielded an influence seldom possessed by a man of his years. His
age was bout thirty-eight. Mr. Perkins, in addition to his remarkable
business capacity, was a man of very high mental culture, and had an
exquisite literary taste which was constantly improving and enriching
his mind. The deceased sought not political preferment, but was sent
from Trumbull county to the convention for forming a State Constitution,
and although in the political minority in that body, no man had more
personal influence in that convention than he. Mr. Perkins was the
President of the Cleveland & Mahoning Railroad Company. His exertions
build that road, and his business talents carried it safely through a
season of depression in railroad schemes that blighted many projected
schemes and brought ruin upon many others. Like the C & M road -
partially completed.
We received notice of Mr. Perkins' death too late an hour to do his
memory justice, but have ventured the above remarks, knowing well how
far short they fall of justice to him, as a slight token of the
estimation and esteem in which the late Jacob Perkins was held in
Northern Ohio. Mr. Perkins was a native of Warren, Trumbull County, and
has left a large estate.
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1859: Oct. 21st - Daily Ohio State Journal - Columbus, OH
1859: Dec. 22nd - Painesville Telegraph - Painesville,
Lake Co., OH
JOHN PERKINS,
an old and very good citizen of this place, died on Monday morning of
this week after a short but distressing illness. His ailment was, we
understand, congestion of the stomach and bowels. As late as Friday last
he was up and about, and although he had been unwell for some days, had
been, so to speak, in a complaining mood, he still had kept about his
business. Friday night he set for a physician. From that time up to the
time of his death, he lay in great distress. From Friday night to Monday
forenoon is a brief period to close up the scenes of time. Mr. Perkins
was a poor but industrious man, with unobtrusive manners. He was
respected everywhere as a neighbor and a friend. He leaves a wife and
several children to the mercies of Rim "Tempers the wind to the short
lamb", and to what are, but too frequently, the charities of a cold
world. May God in His mercy raise up friends for those wham, through the
workings of His inscrutable providence, have been bereft of a mere than
friend, a husband, and a father. Mr. Perkins was 52 years old.
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1862: May 17th - The Daily Cleveland
Herald, Cleveland, OH
April 24th, 1862;
Mrs. NANCY PERKINS, aged
82, died. She was born in Lisbon, CT, Jan. 24th, 1780, daughter of Capt.
Ezra Bishop. On March 18th, 1804 she married
Gen. SIMON PERKINS of Warren,
Ohio. Of her nine children, six including her husband have gone before
her.
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1867: Dec. 20th - The Morgan County Herald - M' Connelsville, OH
Mrs. JULIA PERKINS PRATT, died on the 1st
instant at her residence , Athens, O, aged 84 years. She was the
daughter of Dr. Eliphaz Perkins, and born
in Canterbury, Ct, removing to this territory in 1799.
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1868: Oct. 30th - The Morning Journal - Columbus, OH
R. F. PERKINS, Postmaster of San
Francisco, died on the passage to Panama.
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1869: Oct. 6th - Ohio State Journal - Columbus, OH
PETER PERKINS, a colored man employed
on the City Hall building, fell in an opening in the lower walls
yesterday, and was quite severely injured. He was insensible for a time,
and was conveyed in a carriage to his home in the Southern part of the
city.
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1870: Nov. 16th - Western Reserve Chronicle -
Warren, OH
JEHIEL PERKINS
one of the oldest citizens of this county, Mr. Jehiel Perkins, died at
his residence in Vienna, on Saturday last, 12 inst., at the age of 89
years. He came to this county sometime previous to 1810, and carried
the mail from Warren to Pittsburgh, during 1810, which, owing to almost
the wilderness condition of the intervening country, was a tedious and
trying task. Mr. Perkins served his country in the war of 1812. He has
left a widow in the 82d year of her age.
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1875: Nov. 18th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Mrs. PERKINS, mother of
Sylvester Perkins, died last week; aged 83
years.
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1878: May 24th - Daily Ohio State Journal - Columbus, OH
DETROIT, May 23 - PERKINS BROTHERS TANNERY, at Grand Rapids,
MI , burned today. Loss $15,000; insurance unknown.
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1879: April 18th - The Mahoning Dispatch - Canfield, OH
Perkins Strange Conduct
There is considerable talk in the little village of Roselle, N.J., about
the manor in which JOHN PERKINS
recently disposed of the bodies of his wife and son. Perkins is a
farmer, living about two miles from the village, and is said to be
wealthy. Two weeks ago his wife died. Perkins kept the body in the house
six or seven days, when his son John also died. Perkins made two pine
boxes, laid the bodies out himself, and then buried them in his yard.
There was no funeral. The graves were marked by fence rails at the
heads, Perkins is thought by some to be crazy. He is said to own a large
tract of land in Iowa, while locked up in this parlor are costly
statuettes of bronze and of Parian marble, rare articles of bertn,
bric-a-brack, &c. In his stables are valuable blooded horses, which he
never uses, and twenty head of Alderney cattle. A number of new
carriages are also rusting in the barn. The villagers say he is
penurious to a degree and of a morose temperament.
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1879: Nov. 29th - The Cincinnati Daily Star - Cincinnati, OH
JOHN PERKINS,
pioneer , died at Athens, Ohio.
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1879: Dec. 5th - The Mahoning Dispatch -
Canfield, OH
Mr. JACOB PERKINS, formerly of the
Western Reserve, but now a citizen of Cincinnati, ad abundant reason for
celebrating Thanksgiving day. In a few days he arrives at the age of
twenty-four years, when, as stipulated in his father's will, he comes
into possession of a large property left him by his father, whose death
occurred several years ago. At the time of the death of the elder
Perkins, the property was valued at $3,000,000, but it has since that
time almost quadrupled in its value, and is now worth $10,000,000.
Incidentally, Mr. Perkins, who is a married man, recently paid $1,750
duty on carriages imported from France. He could have saved the $1,750
duty, by buying his carriages of Mr. M. Swank, the American carriage
maker whose headquarters are in Canfield, Ohio.
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1879: Dec. 26th - The Circleville
Democrat & Watchman- Circleville, OH
SAMUEL E. PERKINS,
chief justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, died on 18th, in
Indianapolis. Mr. Perkins was one of the oldest and most eminent jurists
in the State and the West. He was twice elected to the Supreme Bench.
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1880: Aug.
25th - The Marion Daily Star - Marion, Ohio
The Rev. HENRY
PERKINS,
DD, an aged Presbyterian minister, died recently at Allentown, PA. He was
born in Vermont in 1796, graduated from Ohio university and Princeton
theological seminary, and was pastor at Allentown forty-three years,
retiring from active service in 1863.
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1880: Dec. 16th - Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin, Falls, OH
Mrs. LEICESTER PERKINS died Dec. 12th, in
the eightieth year of year age. She had been confined to her bed a long
time. She was among the pioneers of Auburn. The funeral was held Tuesday
at the house, the remains being deposited in the yard.
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1881: March 17th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
AUBURN DEPARTMENT
LEICESTER PERKINS, died March 9th,
1881, aged nearly eighty-two years. He was born in Massachusetts, and came
to Ohio in 1806. He settled with his parents in Aurora. At the age of
twenty-three he was married to Nancy Blish, they having four children who
survive them. He moved to Auburn in 1830, and he kept store at the Corners
ten years. He lived on the place where he died, thirty-eight years. His
custom was to go to the Corners daily, and he was able to dress himself
and eat his meals regularly until the day of his death. There was no
disease but a gradual decline. The funeral was held at the house, the body
being buried in the yard.
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1882: Dec. 4th - The Cleveland Herald, Cleveland, OH.
Painesville, OH: Mr.
(Hon.) William L. Perkins, aged 84 years, died at his
residence. Mr. Perkins came to
Painesville, OH from Connecticut in 1828. He was elected many times as
Mayor of his city. He leaves two sons
and one daughter.
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1883: March 10th - Urbana Daily Citizen -
Urbana, OH
Mrs. D. M Vance returned last evening from
Hudson, Michigan, where she was summoned two weeks ago on account of the
alarming illness of Mrs. PHEOBE PERKINS, a
former resident of this city. Mrs. Perkins died during last week.
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1883: June 7th - Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Mr. CICERO PERKINS, mentioned in my last
letter, died June 4th, aged 46, and his long years of suffering are ended.
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1883: Oct. 10th - The
Greenville Democrat - Greenville, Darke Co., OH
WESLEY PERKINS.
The subject of this brief memoir, was of Connecticut origin, his
father Wesley Perkins (Sr.), at an early date, removing from that
State to Vermont, where he died in 1819. Mr. W. Perkins, was born in the
town of Orwell, Rutland Co., VT, May 16th, 1805, preceding a sister just
one hour. At the age of six months, he became half-orphaned by the death
of his mother, and wholly orphaned at the age of fourteen. Soon after
the authorities of his native town bound him as an apprentice to a
gentleman by the name of Goodrich, who was a deacon in a Congregational
church, and by occupation a farmer, a tanner, and also a tavern keeper.
Here Mr. Perkins remained, loyal and faithful to his legal master, till
he attained the lawful age of twenty-one. At the expiration of his
apprenticeship, he left his native state, and came to Ohio in 1826, and
remained till the next year, at which time he returned to Vermont. In
1828, he came back to Ohio, and took a wife, Miss
ORPHA SNOW, a resident of Windham,
Portage County, Ohio, where he dwelt until 1831, at which time he came
to Amherst, and purchased a piece of land, moving his family thither the
following year, 1832. From that time till 1879, a period of nearly half
a century, he resided in Amherst, and became intimately acquainted with
the growth of Amherst, and also with the names and history of many of
its inhabitants, and able to give an intelligle report concerning the
time at which many of them died, and where in the old cemetery, they
were buried, though no stone marked their resting place. Mr. Perkins was
a genial companion pre-eminently social, and obliging neighbor, a fast
friend a kind father, and a conscientious Christian. He held for a
number of years a membership in the Congregational church. In regard to
the needy, he was generous, almost to a fault, dividing with them his
last dollar, and last loaf, though he sometimes was unable to see where
his own supplies would come from. His confidence in the Merciful Father
was so great as to make him cheerful in the times of pressing
necessities, and his long experience teaching him to "trust in the Lord
and do good", was promise that never failed. Eighteen years ago the wife
of Mr. Perkins died, after fifteen or more years of confinement to her
bed by an incurable disease. In 1879 he went to Cleveland and found a
home with his son Henry Perkins, for about three years. During
the last two years he resided with his youngest son, Roswell Perkins,
in Columbus, but frequently came to Amherst, in the mean time, stopping
with his son sons, Ozni Perkins and James W. Perkins, a
month or so at a time. For a long time he was afflicted with severe
attacks of nephritis, and kindred complaints, causing a vast deal of
suffering, and demanding a large amount of care and attention from his
family friends. But these diseases eventually undermined his
constitution and ended in death, Saturday, October 27th, 1883, at the
age of seventy-eight years, five months, and fourteen days. His remains
were brought to North Amherst and interred beside the dust of the wife
of his youth, in the Amherst cemetery. An appropriate sermon was
preached by Rev. Atwater of Cleveland, from Psalm xc:10. A large
congregation of his former acquaintances were in attendance, to show
appreciation of the deceased.
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1883: Nov. 8th - The Elyria
Republican - Elyria, Lorain Co., OH
MATILDA PERKINS,
died Oct.1st, buried Oct. 2nd, aged 71 years and 3 months.
George Perkins &
Matilda Perkins were brother and sister and were buried in
the same grave.
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1884: Jan. 17th - The Elyria
Republican - Elyria, Lorain Co., OH
Mr. JAMES
PERKINS, died this morning, at the age of forty-eight years
and eleven months, after many months of intense suffering. A more
extended notice will be given of him next week.
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1885: May 7th - The Western Star - Lebanon, OH
LEVI PERKINS, a pioneer of Clarke County,
died at Springfield, aged seventy-three years.
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1887: July 17th - Akron City Times -
Akron, OH
Col. SIMON PERKINS,
the generous benefactor of Summit County, died at his grand stone
mansion last Thursday evening at ten o'clock. The Col. has been ailing for
several months, but no one, not even his immediate attendants, thought the
end would come so soon. His death ended the career of a most noble
character, a man whose entire life was devoted to the happiness of others.
He was common and plain in all things and shunned that which was showy. He
has been a very extensive land owner and during his life has conducted as
fine a farm as can be found in this county. There are probably few men in
this vicinity better known than Col. Perkins and every acquaintance was a
friend. He was eighty-two years old and most of his life has been spent in
this locality. He has been blessed with eleven children, seven of whom are
living to mourn his death. Mrs. Perkins died twenty years ago. He has left
one splendid monument to his name, Grace Park, which, at the time of the
gift, by request, was named after one of his daughters.
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1887: Aug. 3rd - The Summit County Beacon
- Akron, OH
Col. SIMON PERKINS,
is dead. No death on the Western Reserve, perhaps none in Ohio, could,
among the people past middle age, have awakened more regret or genuine
sorrow with a greater number of such, than this. His long residence with
the landed interests of the people, his occasional official relations, his
general intelligence and solid judgment, his sympathy with the varied
interests of common people, his sincerity, frankness and modest simplicity
of manner and above all his undoubted integrity throughout a long life and
in the severest trials that can test the honor of a man in business
affairs, constituted him a character to command esteem. Col. Perkins was
born at Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, Feb. 6th, 1805. He was of Puritan
stock, a descendant of John Perkins who came to America with Roger
Williams in 1881. His grandfather was a captain in the revolutionary army
and his father, Gen. Simon Perkins, is well remembered as commanding the
frontier forces of Northern Ohio in the war of 1812. The mother of Col.
Perkins was a descendant of William Douglass, one of a colony from Boston
that founded New London. Col. Perkins was educated at the common schools
of his native hamlet, and lived there till 1834, when he moved to the
place of his late residence. His training in business was under his
father, who was extensively concerned in the survey and sale of lands. In
1832 he was married to Miss GRACE I. TOD,
daughter of Judge Tod and sister of the late Gov. David Tod. There was
born to this marriage eleven children, of whom seven survive. Mrs. Perkins
died 20 years ago.
Col. Perkins purchased some 5, 000 or 6,000 acres of wild land upon
which his late residence stands, devoted his energies mainly to its
improvement, to the raising and improving of farm stock and to the various
pursuits of agriculture, employments which he always loved. Never did
personal form or presence more faithfully mirror the inward character than
his. Everything was proper, dignified and firm; but with an artlessness as
little suggestive of study or training as the woods that overshadowed his
boyhood. All the improvements, the buildings and fixtures of his
residence, whether useful or ornamental were for endurance. He could put
up with ostentation and show in others, but it was tolerated by his
imperturbable calmness. Brought up and living in abundant wealth his
habits of life and appearance were those of the plain, sensible people
about him whose hands supply the means of their expenses, in short, his
example was a daily rebuke to personal glitter and parade. Yet he was not
without taste and sentiment. He delighted in the cultivation of flowers
and shrubbery and made himself acquainted with much that is useful and
curious in our indigenous trees and lesser plants. His magnificent gift of
Grace Park to Akron and his years of devotion to the improvement of
Glendale cemetery with other like bestowments are proofs of generosity and
of genuine sentiment, and they would possibly be more striking and
memorable if they stood out isolated from the habits of a life
characteristic of them. His public spirit not only in the legislature but
in private life told upon everything around him. The churches, the schools
the highways, nothing that needed bettering escaped his unselfish regard.
Even that disaster which engulfed all his wealth in the downfall of a
railroad enterprise, told of nothing with a stronger emphasis, than of the
wholehearted generosity with which he laid all the accumulations of his
inheritance and his industry upon the altar of the public good. The death
of Col. Perkins is an epoch in those memories of a people which are and
must ever be unwritten. For, who can spread upon the page of history the
declinations of character, the innumerable shades of life, of thought and
action which makes up its habitudes and body forth its composite being?
Historians can tell of wars, of revolutions, of treaties, of
constitutions, of legislations, of tumults, of crimes, of charitable
foundations, educational and sanitary. They can summarize all these and
miscall them leading events. But he who looks through the unwritten
memories of times long gone by sees that the movements historically noted
as leading are but consequences of a leading current which was too
noiseless and inconspicuous for historic record. Nowhere has this been
more profoundly true than with the people of Ohio. And it is this thought
which distinctly from all the heartfelt ties of long and intimate
friendships, from all the most appreciable qualities of heart and
judgment, bring an added sadness over us when we look upon the lifeless
corpse of Col. Simon Perkins. Inheriting the close inquisitiveness, the
quick observation, and above all the solidity of the Puritan, and these
qualities sharpened in their assiduous application to all the varied
business which most concerned the settlement and growth of Ohio, to who
has he left the unwritten but garnered recollections of whatever made up
life and its doings and livings through all its changes and variations,
from the log house to the palatial mansion, from the Indian trail and the
corduroy to the railway, from the sickle to the self-binder, from the
scythe to the mowing machine, from the flail to the threshing machine,
from the foot-wheel, the great wheel and their distaff and tow-cards to
thousands of spindles that go you know not how, from the letter marked 25
that jogged the horseback to the letter stamped 2, shot off by rail and to
the telegraph and telephone that have no forerunners nor antetypes, from
the log schoolhouse, a voluntary neighborhood offering, unfostered by
State policy, but teeming with its innocents bright-eyed and barefoot, to
a common school system, the pride and praise of Ohio, in word from Ohio, a
wilderness, to Ohio as she is ? When a memory so "rich with the spoils of
time", is truck dumb amid our questionings with a pitiful fragment of the
web of human history, aye, of the web of a single life, does all we can
know of it seen to be.
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1887: Aug. 4th - Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Mr. PERKINS,
an old pioneer of this town, died at the home of his son, S.
Perkins, last Saturday evening, after an illness of a few days, aged
seventy-six years and six months. Elder Hart of Chagrin Falls officiated
at the funeral services, which were held Monday in the ch. at the center,
after which his remains were taken to the vault at Chagrin Falls.
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1898: April 14th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Married, at the parsonage in Bedford, April 6, by Rev. Perrins,
Mr. JAMES PERKINS and
Miss Eupha McLaughlin. Friday evening the
young people of Bedford gave them a pleasant reception at the home of the
bridegroom, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Perkins.
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1890: April 17th - Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Mr. Oaks, father of Mrs. Samuel Perkins
and Mrs. Myron Perkins, died at the home of
S. Perkins last week, aged 89 years. Rev.
Smith officiated at the funeral services which were held at the house
Monday.
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1891: May 20th - Wellington Enterprise -
Wellington, Lorain Co., OH
Mrs. KATE PERKINS,
died on the 13th, of pneumonia. Her son Darwin
Perkins, of Kansas City came in time to be present at the funeral.
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1892: Jan. 27th - Carroll Free Press - Carrollton, OH
We are sorry to note that our old friend and comrade of the old 32d.
O.V.I., Mr. Samuel McClelland, has been called again to mourn the
loss of a married daughter, Mrs. GEORGE PERKINS
of Dillonvale, Ohio. She died at her late home on Monday, the 18th inst.
and was brought for interment in Woodland cemetery.
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1892: Aug. 25th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
PRINCE C. PERKINS,
a well-known resident of Syracuse, N. Y., was found dead in his bed. He
had been consul at Stockholm and Barcelona and minister to Portugal. He
married Princess Maria Isabella, of
the Spanish royal family.
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1892: Dec. 7th - Wellington Enterprise -
Wellington, OH
ABEL DEWEY PERKINS,
died at his residence, on Thursday December 1st, of apoplexy. Abel Dewey
Perkins, aged sixty-eight years and one week. Mr. Perkins was born in
Becket, Berkshire county, Mass, Nov. 24th, 1824. He came to Ohio at the
age of nine and spent his life, until his removal to Wellington, upon a
farm at the center of Huntington, where he was very popular, both in
public and private life. He was for several terms township trustee, and
for some time assessor, and he was also postmaster for several years, the
duties of the office being discharged by his deputy, Henry B. West.
It was the custom to hold two services Sunday, with an hour's
intermission. During that hour the spacious sitting room in the Perkins
house was always the scene of happy gathering of relatives and friends.
Scores of people are still living who have many times enjoyed the cheer of
his fireside, and who can testify to his genial hospitality.
After moving to Wellington Mr. Perkins filled the offices of township
trustee and county commissioner for several years. In these positions he
served the public with the utmost fidelity and rare judgment. As long as
the Lorain county court house and the Wellington town hall stand they will
be fitting memorials of the good taste, the public spirit and the business
capacity of Mr. Perkins and his associates. His later years were spent
quietly at his home on South Main street, his only daughter, Mrs. O. P.
Chapman, and family residing with him. He was married September 25th,
1845, to Miss MARY S. NOONEY, with
whom he lived in the utmost love and harmony for nearly fifty years, and
who still survives him. No kinder husband, father or grandfather ever
lived then our deceased friend, Mr. Perkins. Because of his quiet and
unebtrusive manners, it may not have been known, except to his intimate
friends, that he lived a life of devotion to his family, counting nothing
as trouble that added to their happiness. Mr. Perkins was a
careful, through and successful business man, eminently conservative and
worthy of trust, and of so even a temper that it is said by one who knew
him best that he never heard him utter a word in anger. Although a man of
unchangeable and decided opinions, he made no enemies. He leaves only
friends behind. Rev. W. E. Barton conducted the funeral services, Sunday,
December 4th, at the family residence.
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1894: Jan. 11th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
George D. Oaks was born in Erie county, N.Y., in 1836. He removed to
this state with his parents when quite young, settling in Orange, Cuyahoga
county, where he lived until the death of his parents a few years ago,
when he came to Russell, Ohio and lived with his brother-in-law,
Samuel Perkins, until his death, which
occurred on New Years day, 1894, after an illness of only one week, with
grip. Rev. Slutz officiating at the funeral services, which were held at
the Center, Wednesday, Jan. 3. The remains were buried in Chagrin Falls
cemetery beside his parents.
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1894: Dec. 31st - The Cincinnati Enquirer
- Cincinnati, OH
REST - After a Long Journey. John H.
Perkins Goes to his last home - Death of One of Covington's Prominent
Pioneers - A Rugged Kentuckian Passes Away
A long, useful and happy life came to a
peaceful and perfect end last night, when JOHN
HILTON PERKINS closed his eyes to open them no more. Beloved to
all who knew him, respected and honored in a wide circle of acquaintances,
the end came to him in his peaceful old age, as it comes to those who have
traversed life's brief journey in the straight paths of uprightness and
honesty. As much through the eminent sons and daughters who survive him as
by his own admirable life, has the name of Mr. Perkins been one of note
amid the list of Covington pioneers. Full of years and honor, he goes to
the reward of the just and good. Mr. Perkins died at a few minutes after 7
o'clock last night, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. X. W.
Culbertson, No. 21 West Twelfth street, in Covington.
Nearing Life's close
For many weeks it has been plain to those
about him that the end of the venerable man was near. The flight of 86
years over his head had brought him to the threshold of the great beyond.
He did not suffer from any malady known to medicine; it was merely the
breaking down of nature. All of yesterday several of his sons and
daughters were at his bedside, but, as an apparent improvement in his
condition was noted toward evening, they left for their homes, believing
that the end might not come for weeks or even months. At about 7 o'clock,
however, it became apparent that the aged patient was sinking rapidly, and
at a little after 7 he closed his eyes and fell asleep forever as
peacefully as though but for a night.
Mr. Perkins was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 26th, 1808,
and there spent his boyhood. As a young man he came to Burlington, KY, and
during his residence there, On October 1st, 1835, he was married to
MARIA ROBINSON STANSLFER. In 1850 Mr.
Perkins became a resident of Covington, and engaged in the saddlery
business. During a long business career he attained the proudest honor
that can come to an American citizen, the reputation for absolute honesty
and uprightness.
A Happy old age
After he had acquired a competency in business he removed to a farm on
Lexington pike, and lived there until all of his children were married.
During the past 10 years he has lived with his daughter in Covington. Mrs.
Perkins died November 20th, 1890, aged 74 years. Ten children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, eight of whom are now living. They are Henry A.
Perkins, of the firm of Perkins, Campbell & Co., of Cincinnati, who
lives in Avondale; George G. Perkins, Judge of the Circuit Court,
Covington: Mrs. X. W. Culbertson, of Covington: John E. Perkins,
of the firm Perkins & Ernst, of Covington: Charles L. Perkins,
of Columbus, GA: William S. Perkins and Frank H. Perkins,
also of the firm of Perkins, Campbell & Co., both residing in Covington,
and Mrs. Wallace Riggs, of Louisville, KY.
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1895: Aug. 26th - Alliance Daily News - Alliance, OH
DES MOINES, IA. Aug. 26 - Relatives of Mrs. NORA
PERKINS, under arrest in Minneapolis charged with the murder of
Mrs. Lola Hawkins, claim that the husbands of the two woman died here four
years ago under circumstances most mysterious. Mrs. Perkins husband,
LINCOLN PERKINS, a printer, died after
fourteen day's illness and it is said he told his friends before his death
he feared he had been poisoned. Mrs. Perkins secured $1,500 life
insurance. Mrs. Hawkins husband, William Scott, died about the same time
under circumstances which were considered suspicious by Scott's relatives,
although they made no investigation. Mrs. Hawkins secured $3,000 life
insurance.
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1895: Dec. 9th - Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette - Cincinnati, OH
Mr. JOHN S. PERKINS,
one of Cincinnati's oldest and most respected business men, died at 7
o'clock Saturday evening at the home of his son, W.T. Perkins, 95
Ashland avenue. Mr. Perkins was born in Xenia, Ohio, December 18th, 1810,
and had he lived eleven days longer, would have been 85 years old. He
engaged in the mercantile business in Xenia, where the opera house now
stands, and in April 1845, went to Cincinnati to live. The family went by
stage coach to Deerfield, now South Lebanon, and from there to the city on
Little Miami Railroad. Mr. James Doherty, of the Mt. Auburn electric line,
was the conductor of the train. On March 5th, 1884 (1834?) he married
ELIZABETH BEALL, of Xenia, and both lived
to celebrate their golden wedding. Mrs. Perkins died in January, 1890. Six
children were born to them, but two of whom survive - Mr. W. T. Perkins
and Capt. Charles G. Perkins, of Henderson, KY. Funeral
services will be held at the Walnut Hills M. E. Church at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning.
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1896: Dec. 24th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
ISAAC SHELBY PERKINS was born in Aurora,
Portage county, OH, Aug. 1st, 1813, moved to Bainbridge, Geauga county,
near Geauga Lake in 1832, remaining there 52 years. He was married to
MARTHA DURAND June 15th, 1840. Four
children were born to them, May Perkins, Eliza Perkins, Ansel Perkins
and Augusta Perkins. Mrs. Martha Perkins died March 31st, 1853. Mr.
Perkins later married EMILINE MINER of
Bainbridge. To them were born five children, Milo Perkins, Amelia
Perkins, Willie Perkins, Florance Perkins and Grant Perkins.
Mr. Perkins moved from Solon to Chagrin Falls February 14th, 1884,
remaining here until his death, which occurred at his late residence on
Franklin street Dec. 18th, 1896. Mr. Perkins was a kind and affectionate
husband, a tender and loving father and held in the highest esteem by all
his relatives and friends. The funeral occurred from the Christian church,
Rev. Goldner of Chagrin Falls and Rev. Cooper of North Baltimore
officiating. Only two of the children, Mrs. Frank Wells of Bedford and
Mrs. Amelia Smith of Ottawa Lake, Mich., were present. Those in attendance
from out of town were Dr. Hains and daughter, Carrie Cox and husband, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Hins of Bedford; George Blish of Mentor; Mrs. B. F. Barnes,
Mrs. George Mitchell, Mrs. Marian Brainard and A. O. Ford of Painesville.
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1897: June 15th - Alliance Standard Review - Alliance, OH
BOSTON, June 11 - The grandest wedding this city has ever seen and
which, in point of wealth represented, also was first among the great
weddings of the century in this country, was that whereby Lars Anderson,
until recently a member of the United States diplomatic corps at Rome, and
Miss Isabelle Perkins, of this city, heriess
to $17,000,000, yesterday became husband and wife. The bride is the
daughter of Capt. G. H. Perkins, U.S.N. (retired) and granddaughter of the
late William F. Weld, of this city, whose millions she inherits.
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1899: Feb. 2nd - Newark Weekly American-Tribune - Newark, OH
JAMES PERKINS, late of Norwich, the
venerable citizen who died one wee ago, deserves a place in the history of
eastern Ohio. He was one of the originators of the agricultural fairs and
did more for the improvement of the live stock of this section of the
state then any one man. He was the first citizen of eastern Ohio to engage
in the propagation of the very blood of the short horn Durham cattle and
also was the pioneer in raising pure blooded horses, hogs and sheep.
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1899: March 16th - Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Died, March 9, Mrs. EUPHA D. PERKINS,
wife of JAMES PERKINS, aged 20 years.
Another bright life has been gone from among us and we are left to mourn
her loss, but not without hope of again being reunited in the great
beyond. None knew here but to love her, and almost her last words to her
husband and friends were, "Meet me in heaven". Mr. Perkins has the
sympathy of the whole community in his sad and lonely hours of
bereavement. The funeral services were held Sunday, March 12, at 8. M.
Perkins, Rev. Perrins officiating.
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1900: June 28th - Chagrin Falls
Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
FULLERTOWN, June 29 - Mrs. Dusenbury, sister of G. C. Nichols of
this place and mother of Mrs. H. Mansfield and
Mrs. C. PERKINS, died at her home in Chester, June 25.
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1901: July 26th - The Newark American-Tribune - Newark, OH
Mrs. ANDERSON PERKINS, residing north
of this city, died yesterday of apoplexy. Mrs. Perkins had not
complained of being ill, the first intimation her husband heard being
her groans about daylight. Everything possible was done to relieve the
woman, but in vain. She died without regaining consciousness.
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1901: Dec. 5th - The Chagrin Falls Exponent - Chagrin Falls, OH
Phila S. Wood was born in Bath, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1831.
When a small child she came with her parents to Newbury, Ohio,
settling in the woods near Punderson Lake. At four years of age she
was left alone to fight life's battles. She was married Jan. 7th,
1867, to John King of Russell, Ohio, where she resided for 25 years,
until her husband's death, Aug. 27th, 1892. The remainder of her life
was spent with her daughter, Mrs. DOLLIE PERKINS,
in this place, where her death occurred Dec. 1st, 1901, after five
month's sickness. Though a great sufferer she patiently awaited the
summons to go home. Two children survive the mother's departure. They
are Mrs. Dollie Perkins and Mr. S. U. King, both of Chagrin Falls,
Ohio. Also six step-children hand know in her a mother's care, viz:
John King and Mrs. Henry Robinson of Russell; Be King of Burton; Frank
King of Newbury; Mrs. D. B. Pelton of Clinton, Ill; Mrs. Mary Burkhart
of Chagrin Falls.
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1901: Dec. 6th - The Alliance Review - Alliance, OH
DIED IN TEXAS
Dr. D.S. PERKINS died at El Paso,
Texas, a few days ago of tuberculosis. He was a son of Simon Perkins
of Randolph. He was 45 years of age. His remains are enroute to
Atwater for interment. He leaves a wife and daughter.
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1902: March 4th - The Alliance Review
- Alliance, OH
H. B. Perkins Suicides
Hon. H. B. PERKINS of Warren,
committed suicide by hanging himself in his office at Warren Sunday.
He had been in poor health ever since his son took his own life about
a year ago. Deceased was born March 19th, 1824.
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1902: March 7th - The Alliance
Review - Alliance, OH
The death of Hon. H. B. PERKINS of
Warren, Ohio is a loss to Northern Ohio that is keenly felt. Mr.
Perkins was always a man of progressive thought, and a philanthropist
who was loved and admired. As a leading Republican of the Western
Reserve his counsels were of great value to his party friends.
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1902: Dec. 1st - Alliance Daily Review
- Alliance, OH
WARREN: Dec. 1st - JACOB PERKINS, the
eldest son of the late Hon. H. B. PERKINS of this city, died
Sunday at 12:15 o'clock from pneumonia, he being the last of the male
members of the family. He was in Cleveland on Wednesday, November 19,
attending the monthly meeting of the board of trustees of the
Cleveland State hospital, and Thursday was taken ill and returned to
Warren on Saturday, November 22, with a severe cold which developed
into pneumonia and caused his death.
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1903: Jan. 7th - Alliance Daily Review
- Alliance, OH
WARREN, Jan. 8th - Miss Mary B. Perkins
and Mrs. Olive P. Smith have been
appointed co-Administratrix of the estate of the late
JACOB PERKINS, who died early in
December. Miss Perkins and Mrs. Smith are sisters of the dead man. Mr.
Perkins estate is worth probably $500,000 and consists of much real
estate, including considerable Cleveland property.
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1904: April 1st - The American Tribune - Newark, OH
LOCK:
News was received here Tuesday morning of the death of
Mrs. JOSEPH PERKINS of near Homer.
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins formerly lived here.
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1904: Oct. 20th - Clinton Republican - Wilmington, OH
REV. J. W. PERKINS KILLED
He walked off a moving train while partially asleep
ZANESVILLE, OHIO - Oct. 13 - Rev. J. W. PERKINS,
71, was killed at Trinway early Wednesday morning. He was
returning from the St. Louis exposition, and when the porter of the
sleeping car yelled "Trinway" in the car, he jumped from his berth
while partially asleep and walked deliberately out of the door and off
the platform. His son was waiting at Trinway to meet him.
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1904: Oct. 20th - Clinton Republican - Wilmington, OH
PRISCELLA PERKINS
died at her home in Wilmington, Oct. 9, 1904, in the 78th year of
her age. It had been her earnest prayer that she might be taken before
another long, cold winter. She had few of the comforts of life, and
often wondered why she was spared and so many taken who had so many
things to make life pleasant. She died without a relative, but was
cared for in her last illness by Mrs. Thomas McKnight. She was buried
in the old Center grave yard by the side of her mother.
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1905: Jan. 5th - The Daily Journal-Herald - Delaware, OH
Mrs. Willard Galleher, after an
illness of ten weeks, died very peacefully at her home on west Lincoln
avenue, at 3:15 o'clock Thursday morning, the immediate cause of her
death being a general breaking down of the system. Mrs. Galleher was
the only child of the Rev. Chester and Eliza Perkins, born to
them in Milford, Union County, Ohio, Sept 2nd, 1857. In her early
years, she removed with her parents to this city, where her father had
charge of the Ladies Seminary, and was later pastor of the Radnor
Stone Church, where he presided for years. In 1882, she was married to
Mr. Willard Galleher, and with him has resided in this city every
since. Besides the mother, who has been making her home with Mr. and
Mrs. Galleher every since the death of her husband, Rev. Perkins, some
thirty years ago, and her husband, two sons, Chester Galleher and
Brook Galleher, who are attending school at Ohio State, survive the
deceased. For years Mrs. Galleher has bee an active member of the
Presbyterian Church and Sunday School, having had charge of one of the
classes, until ill health forced her to give it up. The funeral has
been arranged for ten o'clock Saturday, at the Presbyterian Church,
Rev. Hickok and Dr. Hawn conducting the services.
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1906: April 25th - The Daily Journal-Herald - Delaware, OH
CINCINNATI, April 25 - City Auditor W. T.
PERKINS, died Tuesday from a second stroke of paralysis. He
had been signing the Southern railroad bonds. Serious questions have
already arisen, as $4,600,000 worth of Southern railroad bonds must be
delivered May 1, signed by the mayor and president and secretary of
the sinking fund trustees and the city auditor. The signatures must be
those of the officials who are in office on that date.
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1907: April 9th - The Bryan Democrat - Bryan, Ohio
ELIJAH PERKINS, one of the first
settlers of Williams county, died at his late home in Pulaski where he
located in 1833, Thursday evening, aged 84 years, 10 months and 24
days. Mr. Perkins was born at Brunersbury, May 9th, 1822. Brunersburg
is now in Defiance county, but at the time of Mr. Perkins birth it was
yet part of Williams county. He therefore spent his entire life of 84
years in Williams county, longer, beyond all doubts, than the
residence of any other person, having been born and reared within its
boundaries. In recent years Mr. Perkins had become afflicted with
cancerous growth, and several of his children, all of whom are
residents of other parts of the United States, offered to take him
within their homes. But he declined saying that he wished to remain at
Pulaski, and in the county that has always been his home. When Mr.
Perkins came to Pulaski, this county was a vast wilderness, and was a
part of Defiance county. In October 1833, Judge John Perkins
left Brunersburg, on the Tiffin river in Defiance county, and together
with his sons, Isaac Perkins, Garrett Perkins and Elijah Perkins,
journeyed across the county to Pulaski, then called LaFayette. The
Perkins family was said to be the third family to settle in this
county. Elijah Perkins continued to live in Williams county, and at
the time of his death was no doubt the oldest settler of the county,
having lived here continuously for nearly three quarters of a century.
The father of Elijah Perkins built the first grist mill in Williams
county, soon after he located in Pulaski and the subject of this
sketch helped about the mill when a "young mac". John Perkins was also
the first surveyor and one of the early judges of Williams county.
About fifty-six years ago Elijah Perkins was married to
Miss MARY ANN REDDING of Mansfield,
Ohio. Mrs. Perkins died 36 years ago. To this union were born six
children, all of whom are living, but of whom only one, Mrs. Ellen
Lindsey was at the side of their father when death came Thursday
evening at 6:00. Mrs. Perkins had only been confined to his bed for
the past two weeks, but his health had been failing in recent years. The
children are, Mrs. Ellen Lindsey of Shelby, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Goin,
Versailles, Cal; Mrs. Libbie Badger, Mrs. Belle Bean and Calderwood
Perkins, all of North Yokima, Washington; and Miss Maud Perkins
of Mansfield, Ohio. Mr. Perkins at one time owned a farm east of
Pulaski, the tract which is now occupied by Mell Glenn. When he
disposed of his farm, Mr. Perkins removed to hishome in Pulaski, where
in his declining years, he was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. George
Wanless, who occupied the Perkins home together with the aged settler.
Funeral services were held from the Reformed church at Pulaski Sunday
morning at 10:00, with interment in the Shiffler cemetery. The
services were in charge by Rev. J. F. Hawk of West Unity.
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1908: April 25th - Wooster Daily News - Wooster, OH
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, April 25 - Protecting a young wife and the
children from a drunken father, MARTIN PERKINS
shot and killed John Pennell on Friday. Perkins offered the shelter of
his home to the Pennell family and the husband, who had been drinking,
called to get them. Perkins ordered him away, when Pennell threatened
to hurt him, "You go out or I will shoot", said Perkins, "Shoot" said
Pennell and Perkins shot him in the heart. Perkins escaped.
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1909: Jan. 7th - The Vindicator - Obituaries 1871-1912
AMASA D. PERKINS,
was born hear Atwater, Ohio, Nov. 4th, 1824; departed this life near
Fortville, Hamilton Co., Indiana, Jan. 7th, 1909 aged 84 yrs, 1 mo.,
23 days. He was united in marriage to (MARY)
POLLY GARRIS who departed this life Jun. 15th, 1877. To
this union were born four children all of whom are living and who with
seven grand-children and many other relatives and friends remain to
mourn their loss. May 13th, 1906 he united with the Old German Baptist
church and lived faithful until death. The funeral occasion was
improved by the brethren to an attentive congregation.
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1910: June 11th - Alliance Daily
Review - Alliance, OH
& June 13th - Wooster Daily News - Wooser, OH
LAKE CHARLES, LA, June 13 - Tied to a tree and practically
cremated alive by his enemies was the fate of
JAMES PERKINS, a wealthy planer,, it
developed shortly after he died. Perkins was found in a pine thicket
near his home a few miles from here by a party of searchers. He was
unconscious and apparently head from horrible burns that had seared
every inch of his surface flesh. He was removed home and for an
instant he revived. He refused to tell the names of the men who had
burned him, declaring he would live to avenge his own ill treatment.
He became unconscious again but just before he died he revived and
attempted to tell the names of his persecutors. Death balked him.
From evidence discovered about Perkins death, it appears he was
captured by his enemies and bound to a tree in the thicket. Then his
cloths were saturated with oil and a flame applied. Before the green
ropes were burned Perkins had sustained a fatal scorching. Some time
ago Perkins had trouble with squatters.
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1910: Sept. 10th - The Times Democrat - Lima, OH
AKRON, OH - Sept 8 - Col. GEORGE J. PERKINS,
millionaire rubber manufacturer, died this morning, aged seventy-one
years. He was president of the B. F. Goodrich Company for a number of
years, resigning a few years ago to become chairman of the executive
committee. He was president of the Second National Bank for some time
also. He was a son of Col. Simon Perkins, who once owned most
of the land where Akron now stands, and he himself gave the city
Perkins's park, consisting of eighty acres.
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1911: Feb. 16th - The Journal-Herald - Delaware, OH
At 2:30 Thursday afternoon, Rev. E. M. Wylie, assisted by Rev. A. D.
Hawn, conducted funeral services over the remains of
Mrs. ELIZA D. PERKINS who died at
noon Tuesday. The bearers were Dr. W. P. Caldwell and Messrs, H. C.
Thompson, G. W. Powers, J. L. Anderson, J. L. Wolfley and L. K.
Galleher. Interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
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1911: March 29th - The News-Letter - Orwell, OH
Wade Hamilton was called to Ashtabula last week by the death of an
uncle, a Mr. Perkins, who was found dead
in bed at the home of his niece, while he was visiting.
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1912: July 23rd - Alliance Daily Review - Alliance, OH
COLORADO SPRINGS, July 23 - Five years ago when
CHARLES PERKINS, president of the
Burlington railroad died, his heirs gave that wonderful natural park,
the Garden of the Gods, to the city of Colorado Springs. During the
summer carnival here in August 23-29, a beautiful bronze memorial
tablet to Mr. Perkins will be placed on the red rocks at the
"Gateway". It will be designed by Guy Lowell, the Boston artist and
architect. Members of Mr. Perkins family will come from Boston for the
event.
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1914: April 16th - The Hudson Independent - Hudson, OH
Mrs. T. MONCURE PERKINS,
one of the famous Langhorne beauties, died suddenly while visiting her
sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, in New York. Her home was in
Richmond, VA. Mr. Gibson said she was stricken with apoplexy.
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1915: March 29th - Alliance Daily Review - Alliance, OH
Mrs. WILLIAM PERKINS, who died at
Wellsville Saturday night, will be buried Tuesday at 2 p.m. She was a
daughter of the late Captain John Todd.
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1916: Aug. 3rd - Graphic News-Republican - Kenton, OH
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tilley of north Leighton street yesterday received
a telegraph conveying the information that J. H. PERKINS
of
Rennselaer, Indiana, had died in Chicago hospital. the telegram came
from Mrs. Perkins, who was formerly Mrs. W. W. Dugan of this city and
is widely known here. Frank Ulz of north Kenton is a brother to
Mrs. Perkins
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1916: Aug. 8th - Graphic News Republican - Kenton, OH
Miss Dorothy Perkins, daughter of
George W. Perkins, the Progressive leader, will be an autumn
bride. Her fiancé is Edward W. Freeman, of Riverdale, N. Y., and the
wedding will take place at the Perkins home at
Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, known as "Glyndor".
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1918: Oct. 8th - The Wooster Daily
News - Wooster, OH
MRS. PERKINS DIED
NEW YORK, Oct. 8 - Mrs. GEORGE W. PERKINS, Jr.,
died suddenly yesterday of pneumonia in Princeton, N. J., at the home
of her father, Major Augustine Trowbridge. Mrs. Perkins was a popular
figure in the younger social circles of New York and Philadelphia. She
married the financier's son June 20th, 1917.
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1918: Oct. 25th - The Morrow County
Republican - Mt. Gilead, OH
RILEY PETER PERKINS,
30, died at Mansfield, Thursday evening of last week, of
influenza. He was born in Mt. Gilead, May,1877, but during the past
ten years has resided in Mansfield, where he was at one time
superintendent of the Mansfield Electric company barns. He lived in
Galion for a time when he was connected with Southwestern Electric.
His first wife, Mrs. Myrtle Perkins, lives at 613 Lincoln Way in
Galion, with the daughter Louise , by the first marriage. He is
survived also by the wife of his second marriage, who lives in
Mansfield.
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1919: March 11th - The Alliance Review and Leader - Alliance, OH
JOHN PERKINS DEAD
SALEM, OHIO., March 11 - Funeral services for
JOHN PERKINS was conducted this
afternoon from the home of Rev. I. F. Kinsey of the Friends church
having charge. Interment was made in Franklin Square cemetery. Mr.
Perkins was 65 years old, death occurring Saturday, due to hemorrhage
of the lungs. For 27 years he had resided in Salem, the entire time
having been in the employ of the Deming company. The wife and three
children survive, Thomas Perkins and Jesse Perkins and Mrs. Nannie
Detrow, all of Salem, OH. Three brothers are James M. Perkins,
Youngstown, OH; Peter Perkins, Lisbon; Dr. Harry Perkins of Pittsburgh
and one sister Mrs. Wickline of New Castle, PA, are also living.
Fraternally deceased was a member of the order of Foresters of
America.
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1920: Jan 17th - Ohio State Monitor -
Columbus, OH
Miss Victory Perkins, aged 18 years,
4 months and 4 days, died at her home, January 5, 1920, at 9:30 a.m.
Miss Perkins had not been sick but a few hours before she died. On
Sunday January 4th, Miss Perkins was walking around and talking with
her friends at her home, 272 Frambes Ave.
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1922 - April 6th - The Free
Press-Standard - Carrollton, OH
Miss MARGARET
PERKINS, 32, daughter of George
Perkins of Salineville, died at the state hospital at Massillon
last week. Burial in Woodland cemetery, Salineville. The father, one
brother, and one sister, all of Salineville, survive.
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1923: May 10th - The Western Star -
Lebanon, OH
Mrs. MATILDA PERKINS died Tuesday at
the Otterbein home at the age of 80 years. The burial took place at
the cemetery of the home, Wednesday afternoon.
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1923: Dec. 5th - The Daily Journal-Herald - Delaware, OH
Mrs. HIRAM PERKINS wife of Prof.
H. M. PERKINS and co-donor with him
to Ohio Wesleyan of the Perkins Astronomical Observatory, and one of
Delaware's most honored woman passed away Wednesday, in her 84th year,
at the Perkins home, 235 West William street, after a ten week's
illness following a general breakdown of her health. Mrs. Perkins,
living most of her life in Delaware, has long been a power for
benevolent good in Delaware and the college community. She was born on
Feb. 9th, 1840, to Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Barkdull at Mt. Vernon,
where she spent her girlhood. She entered the Female Seminary in
Delaware, and graduated from it in 1860. She returned to the seminary
as a teacher and it was there that Prof. Perkins, just graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan met her, and following the civil war, and the subsequent
establishment of Prof. Perkins as a teacher of mathematics in Ohio
Wesleyan, the two were married on August 22nd, 1866. The long life of
Prof. and Mrs. Perkins has been one of rare and beautiful
congeniality. Mrs. Perkins was an ideal helpmate to the professor in
all of his undertakings. Possessing a keen scientific mind, she sided
him in his mathematical and astronomical work, making charts, and
tables for the class room use, and doing much of his reading and
reviewing for him. When he determined to devote his life to giving
Ohio Wesleyan a first-rate observatory, he found a ready and
co-operative spirit in Mrs. Perkins, and together they made plans and
sacrifices for the project. Indeed much of the credit for the success
of the undertaking has been laid at the feet of Mrs. Perkins by the
professor, for as he put it, her unselfish spirit kept him from losing
his aim thru the years. Mrs. Perkins was keenly interested in the
affairs of the community and more than one project for community
betterment has felt her generosity and her responsive influence. She
was one of the organizers of the Monday Club, one of the oldest social
and civic clubs in Delaware. The girls of Ohio Wesleyan were always
the object of much care and attention to Mrs. Perkins, and during her
life, the girls of Monnett had many favors and generosities for which
to thank Mrs. Perkins. She was always more interested in the girls
than the boys of the school, and was constantly eager that girls take
astronomy and mathematics. When girls were enrolled in those classes,
Mrs. Perkins was ever ready to help them with their difficult work.
Not only was Mrs. Perkins interested in local conditions, but
missionary work, both home and foreign, found an enthusiastic
supporter in her. She joined the William Street church early after she
came to Delaware, and was active in all phases of Christian work,
although giving especial care to the missionary work. The funeral will
take place on Thursday at 2:00 at the Perkins home, with President
Hoffman, Prof. Rollin Walker and Rev. Frank Wade Smith, pastor of the
William Street church, officiating. Interment will take place in Oak
Grove Cemetery.
Also........
Mrs. CAROLINE BARKDULL PERKINS,
wife of Prof. H. M. PERKINS died
at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at her home in West William street
after a ten week's illness. She was a member of the William Street
church. Funeral services will be held at the residence, No. 235 West
William street in charge of President Hoffman, Prof. Walker and Rev.
Smith at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon. Burial will be made in Oak
Grove Cemetery.
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1924: Jan. 25th - The Daily Journal-Herald - Delaware, OH
HIRAM MILLS PERKINS,
donor of the Perkins Astronomical Observatory to Ohio Wesleyan and a
life long servant of the university, died shortly after Thursday
midnight at his home at 235 West William street at the age of 90 years
and three months, following a general debility and breakdown of
health, accentuated it is thought by the death of his wife, Mrs.
Perkins, who died December 5th, 1822. The funeral will be held at Gray
Chapel Sunday afternoon at two o'clock, the services to be conducted
by Bishop William Anderson and others. Dr. J. W. Hoffman, president of
Ohio Wesleyan University, will have charge. The body will lie in state
at Gray Chapel from one until two Sunday afternoon for those who wish
to view the remains. After the death of Mrs. Perkins December 5,
Professor Perkins had apparently lost every interest in living.
Instead of being anxious to see the completion of the great
observatory which was the gift of his wife and himself to his
university, the aged man was rather indifferent. He had done his part,
had placed the responsibility in capable hands, and was content to
pass on with complete faith in those doing the work. Professor Perkins
had been with Ohio Wesleyan University since 1850, when he entered the
preparatory department. Born in Derby Creek in 1833, he grew up on the
farm but had a leaning toward science. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
in 1857 and until 1862 was a tutor in natural science at the
university. In 1865 he returned as professor of mathematics, and
astronomy and continued in that position until his retirement from
active teaching in 1907. In 1867 the young instructor married
Miss CAROLINE BARKDULL and the
following year took his bride to live in the big brick house on West
William street which was to be their home for 55 years. Few indeed are
the couples who lived through 55 years together with as much devotion
as did these two. Even last year while Professor Perkins was still
able to walk down town, he always kissed his wife goodby before
leaving. Ohio Wesleyan's benefactor was not only a scientist and a
mathematician but a keen business man as well. One part of Delaware
owns it being to his industry and one street bears his name. But for
the very first Professor Perkins had a vision of astronomical
supremacy in Delaware and toward that end he devoted his business
talent. On the small salary of a college professor he and his wife
saved and invested and re-invested their savings until they were able
to turn over more than $200,000 to the university. A small observatory
on the Ohio Wesleyan campus build in 1897, and containing a fine
telescope and unusually accurate photographic equipment, was the first
contribution. That piece of generosity cost more than $30,000. Since
then Professor Perkins had added to the equipment but the supreme gift
came in the form of the third largest telescope in the world, a
reflecting instrument that will be superior in some respects to the
greatest of well known telescopes. Retiring in 1907, the old professor
and his wife traveled for the next six years, visiting many odd
corners of the globe but returning at last to their home on the hill.
Professor Perkins spent his declining years in gardening and in
beautifying the grounds about his house. Back in 1865 his wife had
been a teacher of botany and natural science in the Ohio Wesleyan
Female College and she retained her interest in plants. The two old
people had as splendid a garden and lawn as there was in Delaware
until the last few years. With the passing of Professor Perkins has
gone the last living man who had known all the presidents of Ohio
Wesleyan since the founding of the university in 1842. There are still
a few alive who were associated with Professor Perkins in his early
days at the university but there are none who began with him. No
profound scientific fact owes its discovery to Professor Perkins, the
advanced no theories to revolutionized human thought but he gave his
whole life, the talents of his brain and the work of his hands, to the
university from which he started in life. He was learned as is
evidence by his several degrees, he gave much of his time to church
affairs in the early days and was made a member of one of the
Methodist Conferences in 1865. But his supreme attainment will live in
the form of the great new observatory now nearing completion near
Delaware, a monument which he has passed on to his brothers in the
world of science.
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1926: Jan. 11th - The Youngstown Daily
Vindicator - Youngstown, OH
MRS. J. M. PERKINS TAKEN BY DEATH
Mrs. MARY V. PERKINS, widow of
JAMES M. PERKINS, died at her home,
448 W. Myrtle Ave. Sunday. Mrs. Perkins was born in Ravenna Nov. 22, 1857,
and had lived in this city for 23 years. She leaves the following
children: William H. Perkins, Ida May Perkins, at home; Frank J.
Perkins, Youngstown; Mrs. R. H. Stambaugh, Girard; J. R.
Perkins, Toronto, Ont., and Mrs. Frank W. Smith, Pittsburgh,
PA. Short services will be held at the residence Tuesday at 12:50 p.m.
followed by services at Ell's Funeral Home, Lisbon, at 2:30 p.m. Interment
will be private and will be in the Lisbon Cemetery.
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1926: June 14th - Hamilton Evening Journal - Hamilton,
Ohio
Paris, Kentucky -
SANDERS PERKINS, 73 years old, died at his
home on the Hume and Bedford Pike, following an illness of several weeks.
He is survived by his widow, and four sons; Allie Perkins, Paris,
KY; Harry Perkins, California; Lucien Perkins and Howard
Perkins, Bourbon Co., KY, a sister, Mrs. Jennie Clary, Lewis Co., KY
and a brother, Thomas Perkins, Hillsboro, KY.
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