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Adam Fudge of Walla Walla County, WA. Born in Illinois, born May 26th, 1845. He married 1872, Miss MARY M. PERKINS, who was born in Marshall county, Illinois, and is a daughter of Joel B. and Margaret (Burt) Perkins, both natives of Kentucky. In that state the Perkins family lived about ten miles from Mammoth Cave. They removed to Oregon in 1852, and located on a farm near Portland, OR, where they made their home until coming to Walla Walla, WA, in 1862. The parents both died at Waitsburg, WA, and two of their nine children have also passed away. Those living are: James A. Perkins, for many years a banker at Colfax, WA, but now engaged in the real estate business; Mary Perkins; Mattie Perkins, the wife of Alfred Miller, of Lacrosse, WA; T. J. Perkins of Spokane, WA; Frank B. Perkins, of the Big Bend country; E. L. Perkins , of Harrington, WA; and Garfield Perkins, of Spokane, WA.

Source: Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties (1918) - Volume 1

JAMES ALLEN PERKINS. It is so seldom a man can be found who in all the multiform relations of life "stands four square to every wind" and yet possesses that happy temperament which enables him to retain the esteem and good will of all his fellow men, that when such a person is discovered it affords us a deep and peculiar pleasure. Perhaps no other man in Whiteman county has participated in so many varieties of human activity as has the honest, unassuming gentleman whose name give caption to this brief and incomplete review, yet, and through his character and previous career have so often been subjected to the searchlight of stubbornly contested political campaigns, no stain or blemish has ever been found, and he is now justly famed throughout eastern Washington for the integrity of his purposes and the soundness of his counsels. Mr. Perkins was born in Belle Plaine, Marshall County, Illinois, September 7th, 1841. His parents, Joel B. and Margaret (Burt) Perkins, were among the earliest pioneers of the Pacific coast, having crossed the plains with an ox-team in 1852 settling in the vicinity of Oregon City, in the Willamette valley, whence they later removed to Benton county, Oregon. They resided there until 1861, but in that year they moved to Walla Walla county, this state, bought a place adjoining the present town of Waitsburg and engaged in farming. Mr. Perkins took a pre-emption claim adjoining his father's place, but subsequently sold his right and purchased the tract upon which the town of Huntsville is now located. In July, 1870, Mr. Perkins and Thomas J. Smith who was elected state senator from Whitman county upon the admission of the state, settled on the land at the junction of the north and south branches of the Palouse river, agreeing between themselves as to boundaries, for the United States survey had not then been made. After they had together put up thirty tons of wild hay and hand gotten the materials on the ground for their houses, Mr. Smith withdrew, leaving Mr. Perkins with no other company than his employees, but a warm personal friendship has existed between Mr. Perkins and Mr. Smith up to the present time. In the spring, however, Mr. H. S. Hollingsworth settled on the land vacated by Mr. Smith, and he and our subject shortly afterward began the erection of the first sawmill in the region north of the Snake river, east of the Columbia and west of the Rocky mountains. When, by act of the territorial legislature during the winter of 1871-72, Whitman count was organized. Mr. Perkins was appointed one of the commissioners to locate the county seat. Colfax, for the town had even then been platted and named, was the location chosen, and the decision of the commissioners was sustained by the people at the next regular election. Before this time, in 1870, Mr. Perkins received an offer from Superintendent Ross, at Fort Simcoe, to look after Indian matters in the Yakima county, but declined, preferring to cast in his lot with the town just springing up on his land, fortunately for the future of the embryo city, for he has ever since been a leader in almost every enterprise for the up building of the town, and his capital has been freely applied to the assistance of all important undertakings tending toward its material development. He was one of the incorporators of the Washington and Idaho Railroad, which has contributed so largely toward developing the agricultural and mineral resources of the two states which it connects. In 1881 he purchased the Bank of Colfax from Mr. C. C. Linnington, and remained sole proprietor of that institution until 1886, in which year A. L. Mills was admitted to partnership. Mr. Mills was succeeded in 1890 by O. E. Williams. Mr. Perkins also handles a great quantity of real estate annually, being local agent for the O. R. & N. and Northern Pacific, the latter of which he has represented ever since it began to sell land. In city, county and state political affairs Mr. Perkins has long been an important factor. He was chosen by the people of Whitman county to represent them in the territorial legislature during the session of 1879, and served their interests with a faithfulness which would doubtless have insured his re-election had he not declined to become a candidate. He has served as delegate to territorial conventions, chairman of the Republican county central committee, a member of the territorial committee, a charter member of the town council of Colfax, and was four times elected mayor of the city, once without an opposing vote. He was also and alternate delegate to the national convention which nominated James A. Garfield for the presidency, and one of the delegates at large to the national Republican convention which, in 1892, met at Minneapolis to nominate a successor to President Harrison. In August, 1892, he was urged by many of the leading men of the state to allow his name to be proposed to the Republican state convention for the office of governor, but refused his consent. It is thought by many that had his name come before the convention he would certainly have been nominated, which would have been equivalent to being elected. In 1893 his name would have been presented to the legislature for the distinguished position of United States senator, but he would not consent to that so long as the Hon. J. B. Allen was being voted for. Mr. Allen failed of of the election up to the hour of adjournment of the legislature. It was supposed that Mr. Perkins could have been elected had Mr. Allen withdrawn from a hopeless contest, as it proved to be for him. Mr. Perkins was married in Whitman county in 1873, to Miss JENNIE (EWART), daughter of Captain James Ewart, of whom more extended mention has been made elsewhere in this volume. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins are parents of four children, namely: Minnie B. Perkins, who in November, 1899, married L. L. Tower, a mining engineer, residing at Northport, Washington; Myrtle M. Perkins, who in June, 1896, became the wife of Charles E. Scriber, cashier of the Second National Bank of Colfax; Stella Perkins and Summer E. Perkins. The three daughters were all educated at the Mills Seminary in California.

Source: An Illustrated History of Whitman County, State of Washington by W. H. Lever (1901)

CHARLES J. PERKINS, attorney-at-law and an active member of the Southern California bar, came to the State in 1883, and the following year located in practice in San Bernardino, CA. He was born in the Empire State in 1856, but his father, F. J. Perkins, moved with his family from New York to Illinois in the fall of that year, and purchased a farm, on which they settled. In 1877 young Perkins started out in railroad business as an employ'e in the operating department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. At that time train robberies on the western frontier were much more frequent than now, and assaults by desperadoes upon trains supposed to carry valuable treasurer were not uncommon. Mr. Perkins had some thrilling experiences with this lawless class. While serving as conductor on that line; and on one occasion observing that the train was not properly controlled, he went forward to the engine and found the engineer and fireman both dead in the cab, having been shot while at their post of duty by men in ambush. He also filled the position of traveling auditor during his connection with the Denver & Rio Grande Company. Deciding to make the legal profession his life-work, Mr. Perkins entered Wisconsin University at Madison and graduated in the law department of that institution in 1882. Soon after graduating he married Miss EDITH COLLINS, of Rochelle, Illinois.  In 1883 he came to the Pacific coast, as one of the attorneys for the Northern Pacific Railroad, under the Villard management, and when that magnate lost control, Mr. Perkins was succeeded by a friend of the new management. He visited the most desirable points on this coast before selecting San Bernardino, CA as his choice, and since settling here has devoted his attention to mining and commercial law, making a specialty of the former, and has been connected on one side or the other with nearly every important mining suit tried in this part of the State during the last five years. He is an active, energetic man, and is an indefatigable worker in any cause he undertakes. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Perkins has been instrumental to a large extent in developing the grand artesian water supply of the San Bernardino valley, having sunk many of the hundreds of fine, flowing wells in that county. Mr. Perkins is a member of the San Bernardino County Bar Association.

Source: An illustrated history of Southern California : embracing the counties of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the peninsula of Lower California, from the earliest period of occupancy to the present time; together with glimpses of their prospects; also, full-page portraits of some of their eminent men, and biographical mention of many of their pioneers and of prominent citizens of to-day (1890).
 

WILLIAM PERKINS, a farmer of Bell County, TX, was born in Davidson county, Tennessee, Aug. 22nd, 1836, a son of David T. Perkins, a native of the same State and a mechanic by trade. He came to Bell county, Texas, in 1861, settling on Little river, where hw as a farmer and slave-owner. He married Miss Emmaree Clark, daughter of George S. Clark, a native of Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have five children; George D. Perkins, a farmer of Bell county, TX; William Perkins, our subject,  J. A. Perkins, who served through the late war, and is now a resident of California, Martha Perkins, who married Mr. Herne, and both are now deceased, Sarah F. Perkins, deceased, was the wife of J. O. Collins, Sophia Perkins, wife of T. Peoples, of Falls county, TX, and Samuel Perkins, who died at Temple in 1883, from injuries received on a train of cars. The mother died in 1866. William Perkins came to Bell county, TX, in 1856, where he was engaged to run cattle. In 1858 he joined the State Rangers, with whom he remained six months, and during that time participated in no regular battles, but had many runs after Indians. After leaving that company he was engaged in fighting the Indians on the frontier until 1861, when he joined Company H., Sixth Texas Cavalry, which was the first company to leave the county. Mr. Perkins served in Texas, Missouri, the Indian Nation and Arkansas, and participated in the battles of Elk Horn, Corinth and Farmington. His command was then attached to the Army of Tennessee, in which he served to the close of the war. He received flesh wounds four different times, was captured at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, and with three others was carried to Nashville, next to Louisville, thence to Indianapolis, afterward to Chicago, and then to Harrisburg. He was finally exchanged at City Point and returned to his command, and while in north Alabama was again captured, but escaped from his guard the same night. Mr. Perkins was at home on a furlough at the time of the surrender, after which he spent six months in Mississippi, where he was engaged in the cotton business. After returning to this State he engaged in stock-raising until 1870, when he purchased 300 acres of his present farm. He has since added to this place until he now owns 1,000 acres, 600 acres of which is cultivated to cotton and corn, and on which he has nine tenement houses. Mr. Perkins was married in 1866, to Miss SEABELL GRIFFIN, who was born in 1842, a daughter of Moses Griffin, a native of Alabama. The later came to Texas in the early '40's and was among the pioneer settlers of Bell county, Texas, where he remained until death. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have eight children, viz: Mary Bell Perkins, at home; Laura A. Perkins, D. A Perkins; Myrtle Perkins, who was accidentally killed by the discharge of a pistol at the age of seven years; William M. Perkins; Wade Perkins; Harry L. Perkins and George Perkins. Mr. Perkins is a Democrat in his political views.

Source: Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas - Volume 2 (1893) 

JOSHUA PERKINS, manufacturer, of Nasonville, RI, was born in the town of Trowbridge, Wilshire, England, March 17th, 1842. His father Joshua Perkins, was a shoemaker by trade, but young Perkins, after ten years of age, left his employ and went to work in a woolen mill, where he remained as long as he stayed in that country. Realizing that his only capital was his labor, his thoughts naturally turned toward this country, where he was informed the munificent sum of one dollar a day was actually paid as wages to common laborers. At the age of 17 he found himself possessed of sufficient means to make the ocean voyage, and on the 16th of March, 1859, he embarked in the "Western Empire" at Liverpool, for the United States, and after a 45 days' sail landed in Boston. With no surplus money in his pocket to spare, he immediately set out for Pascoag, where he at once found work as a common hand for James O. Inman at $16 per month. The next year he was advanced by his employer, and made overseer of the finishing room, a position he held while he remained in Mr. Inman's employ. In 1862, he became overseer of the Granit Mills, and remained there three years. In 1865, he was employed by James Legg & Co., as overseer for their two mills, and remained with them till 1871. In 1872 Mr. Perkins began business for himself, leasing a little mill in Mohegan for the manufacture of shoddy, but soon returned to Mapleville to serve in his former capacity, where he remained till 1877. In the meantime he established a store in Nasonville, which he still owns and operates under the style of J. Perkins & Co. In 1886, Mr. Perkins was induced to undertake a still greater venture. The mills of Nasonville had been idle for a few months, seeking some suitable business man to leas the property. These mills had never proven a success, and failures had become frequent. Mr. Perkins undertook the enterprise, began the manufacture of fancy cassimere and worsteds in a four set mill of 20 broad looms, and his business has so prospered that the mill has been increased to 33 looms, and the prospects are sufficiently bright to warrant the leasing of the White Mill at Pascoag, to take effect the 1st of August, 1890. The business at the White Mill is conducted under the style of the Perkins Manufacturing Company. About 250 hands are employed. Henry W. T. Mali & Co., New York, are the selling agents for these mills. Mr. Perkins was married Feb. 7th, 1863, to Miss EMILY GULICK. He has had one son, Fred W. Perkins, now a member of the Perkins Manufacturing Company, and one daughter, Ruth E. Perkins, who died in 1889 at the age of 15 years. Mr. Perkins is a man of public spirit, but no office seeker. He has been assistant postmaster and postmaster of Nasonville since 1877, trustee of the public schools for many years, and at one time a member of the town council. Mr. Perkins is a successful business man and a genial, kind-hearted gentleman.

Source: History of Providence County, Rhode Island (1891)

FRANCIS M. PERKINS. - The parents of the subject of this biography were Josiah and Melintha (Smith) Perkins, whose children were; Anna M. Perkins; Andrew J. Perkins; Jane M. Perkins; Francis M. Perkins; Charles H. Perkins; Eliza J. Perkins and Louisa A. Perkins. Francis M. Perkins was born in Middleboro, MA, July 25th, 1839, and while yet a child removed with his parents to Woonsocket, Rhode Island. On completing his education in the public schools, he assisted his father in the book and periodical business. Subsequently entering the grocery trade with Daniel A. Cook, he continued this business association for several years, and later formed a co-partnership with George C. Wilder in the same branch of trade, in both of which ventures he was very successful. In 1868 he was made treasurer of the Woonsocket Rubber Company, and continued in this position until his death, May 10th, 1885. On assuming this responsibility the capital stock of the company , in which he was a shareholder, was $1,500,000. Mr. Perkins was also a stockholder in the Bailey Wringing Machine Company, and a director in both the Woonsocket National Bank and the Woonsocket Institution for Savings. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and connected with the Morning Star Lodge, No. 14, of that Order. In all his undertakings, whether of a business or social character, he displayed remarkable energy, was faithful to every trust, honest in his dealings and efficient to a remarkable degree in his undertakings. Active yet quiet in all his works, he moved still onward to success with a determination and a purpose that were praiseworthy in the highest degree. He knew no faltering steps and walked not in doubt or fear. Discerning what he undertook with a clear vision, and guided by the unflinching courage of his convictions, he accomplished his work. Mr. Perkins felt great interest in the Universalist church and Sunday school, in the former of which he was leader of the choir, and in the latter musical director and librarian. He was also a member of the prudential committee of the society. A keen lover of music, many of his musical compositions were rendered in connection with the church festivities, and received with many marks of appreciation. Mr. Perkins was married December 19th, 1865, to ELLA F. WILDER, daughter of George C. Wilder, of Woonsocket, RI. Harold W. Perkins is the only survivor of three children.

Source: History of Providence County, Rhode Island (1891)

RICHARD C. PERKINS, a pioneer of Logan County, Colorado, where he owns and occupies a ranch near Sterling, CO, was born in Fayette Coutny, Tennessee, March 8th, 1842, a son of Richard C. and Martha O. (Gibson) Perkins. He was one of eleven children, five now living, namely; Elizabeth Perkins, the widow of John O. Graves, of Grand Junction, TN; Sarah E. Perkins, widow of R. E. Smith, of Logan County, CO; Richard C. Perkins; Catherine Perkins, wife of Dr. Turner Milan, of Texas; and Mattie Perkins, Mrs. M. S. Smith, of Grand Junction, TN. The father, a native of Middle Tennessee, born in 1801, was only a small child when his parents died, he was reared by a neighboring farmer. who cared for him until he attained manhood. He then went to Alabama, where he married, shortly afterward returning to Tennessee and settling in Fayette County, where he purchased from Mr. Gordon a farm which the latter had bought from an Indian, Beatly. Here he remained until his death, in 1854. The education of our subject was obtained in district schools, the Newcastle (Tenn) Academy, (where he studied for one term) and Bethel College, at McLemoresville, TN, where he spent two terms. The continuation of his studies was interrupted by the outbreak of the Civil war, when he was attending the Baptist University at Murfreesboro, TN. About that time his older brother, who had been in charge of the plantation, died and he was called home to assume the management of the estate. In the spring of 1862, he went to Virginia and enlisted in the Nineteenth Mississippi Infantry, C.S.A. (having a brother who was a member of this regiment). He joined Company H at Yorktown. The regiment skirmished there for some days, then fell back to Williamsburg, where his brother, John C. Perkins, was killed. Thence they marched to Richmond, where he took part in the siege, and also in the battle of Malvern Hill, where he was wounded seriously. For three months he was confined in the hospital at Richmond, after which he was given a furlough of a year. Upon the expiration of the furlough, he being incapacitated for duty in the infantry, joined Forest's cavalry in northern Mississippi. Their first engagement of consequence was the capture of Fort Pillow. After many minor engagements, in which he bore a part, in the spring of 1865 he returned to Virginia and joined his old regiment, then located in the trenches between Richmond and Petersburg. He was just to the right of the point where General Grant blew up the Confederate works by undermining them. He took part in the battle that followed, in which the Confederates succeeded in holding their lines. Later he was a participant in engagements at Weldon Road. After the surrender Mr. Perkins went home, it taking about one month for him to walk from Farmville, where Lee surrendered, to his Tennessee estate. There he found nothing but desolation. All was laid waste. However, he was cheered by the fact that many of his former slaves remained to welcome him home and they continued with him as long as he was on the old plantation. After his mother's death, in 1866, he purchased the interests of the other members of the family in her share of the estate, with the intention of making his permanent home amid the scene familiar to him from his earliest recollection. However, in 1873, he decided to come west, so, selling his place, he removed to Colorado, arriving in Greeley, CO, April 1st of that year, in company with three other families. He rented land in the vicinity of Greeley, the four families being in partnership, in order that some of the men could look after the farming interests while others were inspecting the country for a suitable permanent location. In June of the same year our subject came to Logan county, CO, and was so pleased with prospects that he decided to settle here, and the other families came with him. In February, 1874, he proved up on his present home ranch as a pre-emption and later homesteaded an additional one hundred and sixty acres, four miles east of Sterling, CO. Upon that homestead he made his abode for eight years, after which he removed to his present place, one and one-quarter miles southwest of Sterling, CO. He here is engaged in farming and the stock business. During the early days of his residence in Logan Co., Mr. Perkins experiences all the hardships and privations of life on the frontier, far from civilizing influences. It was difficult to obtain the bar necessities of life, and comforts were not expected. During the long period of his residence here he has always worked to promote the welfare of the community and has done much to interest strangers in settling in this locality. He was one of the prime movers in the building of the Sterling Irrigation Company's ditch, which was the first ditch taken out in this section, and he had the contract to build the first six miles of the ditch. The company was organized in 1873, with himself as treasurer, and from that time to the present he had held different positions on the board of directors. For a number of years he acted as postmaster here, the mail route being from Greeley to Julesburg and trips being made twice a week. In politics he is now a staunch Prohibitionist, voting with that party. With his wife and family he holds membership in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Sterling, CO. In 1868 Mr. Perkins married Miss CORNELIA C. DAVIS, a native of Marshall Co., Mississippi, and daughter of Hugh Davis, who at one time owned all of the land in his section, including the present site of Michigan City. Nine children were born of this marriage, and seven are living, namely; Sallie O. Perkins, wife of Walter I. Brush, who is engaged in the livery business at Sterling, CO; Hugh R. Perkins, who is engaged in the drayage business at Sterling, CO; May E. Perkins, a graduate of the Sterling high school and now a teacher in the public school here; Charles A. Perkins, Carrie Perkins, Margaret Perkins and Lester Perkins, who are at home.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of the State of Colorado, Part 2

ELISHA M. PERKINS, the well-known mayor of Evans, CO, and the genial and popular proprietor of the Perkins Hotel, was born in Tazewell County, Illinois, December 17th, 1833. His father, Elisha M. Perkins, Sr., was probably a native of Virginia, but spent his youth in Kentucky, and removed to Illinois at an early day, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Tazewell County. He engaged in farming and dealing in the fine stock, and also conducted a shoe store for a time. About 1841 he laid out the town of Circleville upon his land in Illinois, erected a large hotel, which he conducted for several years, while the community around him grew to a thriving country town. He was one of the best-known men in that part of the county, and was an ardent Democrat in politics, took an active part in the presidential campaign of 1840, and served as deputy sheriff of Tazewell County, Ill for one term. He died at the age of fifty-nine years, near Des Moines, Iowa, where he lived for a few years. He had also spent three years in Warren County, MO, after which he removed to Iowa, where he was engaged in the milling business. He married Susan Baker, of Kentucky, and to them were born eleven children, but only five are now living: Isaac N. Perkins, a resident of Indian Territory; Daniel Perkins; Zedec C. Perkins, of Nebraska; Artemecia Perkins, widow of William McGee, and Elisha M. Perkins. The wife and mother died at about the age of seventy. Our subject obtained the greater part of his education in an old log school house in Iowa. Leaving home at the age of sixteen he went to Des Moines, Iowa, where he spent a few years with a cousin, and then returned to the parental roof. He worked on the home farm and with his brother, Isaac N. Perkins, operated his father's mill. In 1851 he went to Adams County, Ill, on horseback, and spent the summer with his brother, Zedec C. Perkins. In 1852 he went to Pike County, that state, and began learning the carpenter's trade, which he followed until 1859. In the spring of 1854 he bought a piece of land in Marion County, Iowa, and gave some attention to farming for two years. While at that place his first wife died, May 22nd, 1854. Mr. Perkins then returned to Warren County, Ill, and with his brother, Isaac N. Perkins, rebuilt the old mill, which he sold on its completion. In the winter of 1856 he went to Kansas, where he erected houses for sale, and served as constable of Capioma, Nemaha Co., KS. In 1860 with his brother, John W. Perkins, Stephen Shelton, J.S. Dunbar and H. C. Stanley, he started over the plains to Denver, CO, arriving there on the 22nd of May. A few days later he went to Central City, where he engaged in mining, but after the Civil war broke out he returned to Denver and enlisted. He only remained there for a few weeks, however, when he again went to Central City and resumed mining. A few weeks later he returned to Denver and started for home by the way of the Platte River, but when near that city the boat capsized and he lost all his belongings. In company with two other men he started out on foot looking for works and proceeded down the South Platte to its mouth, where he was employed on a farm that summer. In 1862 he again went to Denver, acting as cook for the wagon train of Garrison & Hulbert, and the following winter worked on the ranch of N. H. Gage. While there he married his present wife, MARGARET JANE HOOVER, daughter of C. J. Hoover, of Denver, CO. He then bought a ranch on the Platte River, on the main state line between Denver and Julesburg, and successfully operated the same for two years, but in 1864 was driven away by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, who killed two men. Going to Fort Wicket he entered into partnership with Holan Godfrey, and together they conducted a ranch until the Indian massacre Jan. 16th, 1865, when the red men drove off their stock. That spring he returned east after his family, and on again coming to Colorado, in the fall of 1865, he settled on his old ranch on the Platte, his brothers, D. R. Perkins and J. W. Perkins, being with him. In partnership with J. S. Dunbar he opened a stage station at Bijou Creek, which they conducted about a year in connection with the ranch. Mr. Perkins then took charge of the home stage station for Wells, Fargo & Co., sixteen miles distant. After spending the winter of 1868-69 in Denver, he took up government land at Godfrey Bottom on the Platte River, where J. S. Dunbar now lives, and there carried on farming and stock-raising, dealing in fine eastern cows. In 1871 he removed to the town of Evans, CO, and the next year opened the Gerry Hotel, which he conducted one winter. The following year he was engaged in the livery business in St. Louis Valle, and in 1874 was appointed deputy sheriff of Weld County, CO, under David C. Wyatt, being reappointed under Joseph McKissock two years later. Since retiring from that office he has been interested in the hotel and livery business in Evans, CO, and he and his wife have become the owners of some good residence property in that place. To Mr. Perkins and his second wife, one child was born, a daughter, Ida M. Perkins. She became the wife of Albert Huffsmith of Evans, CO. Mrs. Huffsmith died in 1890, leaving two children, Jesse B. and J. Miller Huffsmith, who are now living with their grandfather, our subject. As a Democrat, Mr. Perkins has taken quite an active and prominent part in local political affairs, and has been honored with several official positions of trust and responsibility. He served as county commissioner for three years, and as a trustee of Evans, CO for three terms, and in April, 1898, was elected Mayor, which office he is now filling with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of his constituents. At one time he was nominated for sheriff of Weld County, CO, but withdrew in favor of James Bailey, an old friend. As a citizen he stands ready to discharge every duty devolving upon him, and he has proved a most faithful and popular official.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of Denver and Vicinity, Colorado

CHARLES CLARK PERKINS, the principal of the New London clothing firm,  C. C. Perkins & Co., was born in Noank, this county, November 5th, 1864. An enthusiastic student of family history, he has traced his ancestry back for twelve generations. One of his ancestors, John Perkins, was high steward to Hugo Di'spencer, one of the richest and most powerful nobles of England in his time. It is believed that John's son, and his successor in the office of steward, who also became Lord of the Manor of Madrasfield, was the first of the family to have the fesse dancette between six billets for his arms. This ancestor lived in the reign of Henry VI., and was the steward of the Di'spencer estates when their heiress married the Earl of Warwick, the king maker. John Perkins, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Newent, Gloucestershire, England, in 1590. Sailing from the port of Bristol on Dec. 1st, 1630, he was a fellow-passenger, on the ship "Lyon", William Pierce, master, of the celebrated Roger Williams. On the mother's side Mr. Perkins claims descent from Elder Brewster, who came to the country in the "Mayflower". His paternal grandfather, Rufus (*Phineas) Perkins  (*See sketch below), who was a farmer in Groton, CT, served in the Revolutionary War, and took part in the battle of Groton Heights. The grandfather, Civilian (Sevilian) Perkins, born in 1805, was captain of a fishing-smack. In 1849 he went to California, and was there engaged in speculation for a few years. After his return home, he bought a sloop, and was thereafter engaged in fishing for cod on the George's Banks. His wife's maiden name was Lucy B. Potter, of Noank, CT. She belonged to one of the old families of this county. Grandfather and grandmother Perkins had seven sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to maturity, married, and had families. Six of the number are now living, the most of whom are scattered in the West. Grandmother Perkins died at the age of forty-five, while her husband lived to be seventy-two.  Albert W. Perkins, the father of Charles Clark Perkins, was born in October, 1834. After spending twenty-eight years in seafaring, having had command of a vessel for sever years, he opened a general merchandise store. On January 22nd, 1858, he was married to Julia Burrows, a daughter of Austin and Almira (Hil) Burrows. Her maternal great-grandfather, Samuel B. Hill, was slain at the battle of Groton Heights. His son, Moses Hill, was her grandfather. Her children are: Lucy Perkins; Charles C. Perkins, Almira Perkins, Warren C. Perkins, Albert W. Perkins and Abbie Perkins. Lucy Perkins married Charles I. Fitch, Jr., the station agent at Noank, CT; Almira is the wife of O. W. Monroe, of Providence, R.I., Warren C. Perkins, who is the baggage-master at Noank, married Flora Stanton, of Stonington; Albert W. Perkins, a young man of sixteen years, and Abbie Perkins, now aged fourteen, are still under the paternal roof.

Charles Clark Perkins was educated in the common schools. At the age of seventeen, after gaining some experience in mercantile pursuits in his father's store, he went to Providence, R.I. where he was employed in a wholesale gentlemen's furnishing store in the several capacities of salesman, entry clerk, and commercial traveler. While in Providence he supplemented his early education by taking a business college course. Later, on account of his father's failing health, he returned home, and took charge of the latter's business. in 1885, when Johnson & Shurts opened their New York store in New London, CT, he came here, at the same time retaining his interest in his father's business. After serving as second salesman in the new establishment for four years, he embarked in the hat and furnishing business. In April, 1889,he bought out George W. Meeker, hatter and finisher. Owing to the smallness of the store, he gave it the name of "Hat Box". His stock comprised hats, caps, and furnishings __. So successful did this enterprise prove that two years later, when the new Cronin block was completed, he moved from the "Hat Box" to the "Hat Place". Two years later he established a branch in Norwich, CT, buying out ___ C. Clark. This place was conducted under the style of Perkins  & Montgomery, until he withdrew from the connection in 1894. Next year the firm of C. C. Perkins & Co., was formed by the consolidation of the Hat Palace and the old establishment of Shepard & Harris. S. E. Tyler was admitted to partnership, and the firm opened their fine store at 130 State Street in November, 1895. Mr. Perkins has been remarkably successful in business. Mr. Perkins is Past Grand Mohegan Lodge, I. O. O. F., and Chief Patriarch of the encampment; a member of Sprague Lodge, A. O. U. W., of which he is Overseer; Past Leader of the Home Circle, a member of the Jibboom Club and of the Sons of the American Revolution, and President of the New London Business Men Association. On November 27th, 1887, he was married to Miss HATTIE S. FISH, of Noank, CT. They have one child, Alice Tyler Perkins, who was born March 23rd, 1891. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. In religion he is a member of the Second Congregational Church. His musical ability has led him to become a chorister in his own church, and also of the Third Baptist Church. For four years he was the treasurer of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Perkins is also a trombone soloist of unusual ability, having played that instrument for five years in the theatre with Wight's Orchestra. The family reside in their pleasant home, 88 Huntington Street.

Source: Biographical Review - Volume XXVI - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of New London County - Connecticut - 1898

WILLIAM S. C. PERKINS, M. D., for over a quarter-century has ministered to the bodily ailments of the residents of Norwich, CT, by whom he is held in the highest esteem. Born in East Lyme, New London Co., CT, February 1st, 1837, son of Austin Freeman Perkins, he comes of French origin. Rufus Perkins, the father of Austin Freeman Perkins, and old-time innkeeper of Groton, CT, was a son of John and Polly (Freeman) Perkins. Mrs. Rufus Perkins, who outlived her husband by many years, died about the year 1847, at a venerable age. She bore her husband two sons and two daughters. Austin Freeman Perkins, who was born in Groton, CT about the year 1804, acquired his rudimentary education in the common schools. He read medicine with Dr. Minor, and subsequently attended Berkshire Medical College, which was then in Pittsfield, MA, graduating there from about 1830. On receiving his diploma, he set up in practice in that portion of Lyme known as East Lyme and Flanders village. In the same year he was married to Mary Moore Way, of Lyme, CT, a daughter of Elisha Way, a pensioner, who died at the age of eighty-five years. Five of their eight children reached adult life, namely; Eunice C. Perkins, who died at twenty-five; William S. C. Perkins, the subject of this biography; Thomas A. Perkins, a successful Norwich merchant, a member of the city government and a Deacon of the Baptist church; Julia B. Perkins, the wife of Sylvester g. Jerome, residing in Waterford, CT; and Mary A. Perkins, the wife of Joseph P. Morgan, living at Fort Scott, Ark. The mother died in 1852, when forty-six years of age. Their father afterward married Miss Louisa Wightman, who born him two sons, namely: Austin F. Perkins, now connected with the Norwich Carpet Lining Company of this city; and George Anson Perkins, a box manufacturer here. After the mothers death, Dr. Austin Perkins formed a third union with Miss Harriet Moore. He died in 1876 and she in 1890. William S. C. Perkins attended the common schools of East Lyme, CT, also the Connecticut Literary Institute at Suffield, CT. He then took up the study of medicine under his father's tuition, was subsequently a student in the medical department of Yale College, and in 1860 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. In the same year he began the practice of his profession in Montville, CT, this county, remaining there until the fall of 1869, the date of his location here in Norwich, CT, where he has been in active and very successful practice since. He is a member of the staff of the William W. Backus Hospital. This institution, which is fully equipped and has about seventy beds, was founded by William S. Slater and William W. Backus. On May 29th, 1861, Dr. Perkins was united in marriage with Miss AMELIA J. JEROME, of Montville, CT, a daughter of George and Hannah (Darrow) Jerome. A son and daughter live to bless their union, namely: Florence A. Perkins, who married Frank W. Browning, of Norwich, CT, and has four children; and Charles H. Perkins, M.D., a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City in the class of 1891, now practicing in Norwich, CT, and a member of the county and State medical societies. Dr. William S. C. Perkins is a Republican in politics. A thirty-second degree Mason, he is a member of Somerset Lodge, No. 34, F. & A.M.; of Franklin Chapter, No. 4, R. A. M.; of Columbian Commandery, K. T.; and of Connecticut Sovereign Consistory, Grand East. Like his son, he is a member of the county and State medical societies, and in the spring of 1896 he was elected president of the former. He resides at 50 Broad Street, in the home that was purchased in 1880, moving there from his former residence, 42 Main Street, in August of that year.

Source: Biographical Review - Volume XXVI - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of New London County - Connecticut - 1898

ALBERT W. PERKINS, the leading dry-goods merchant of Noank, CT, in the town of Groton, CT was born here, October 3rd, 1835, son of Sevilian and Lucy B. (Potter) Perkins. His paternal grandfather was Phineas Perkins, a farmer, who took part in the action at Groton Heights during the Revolutionary War. Sevilian Perkins, who was born in Groton, CT in 1808, was a sailor and fisherman. in 1849 he went with a party to California, where he was engaged in speculating for a few years. Returning subsequently to Connecticut, he bought a fishing sloop, in which he went after cod to George's Banks. His wife, in maidenhood, was Lucy B. Potter, and a native of Noank, was descendant of one of the oldest families in this county. She became the mother of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, all of whom grew to mature years, married, and had families, there being at the present time twenty-five living grand-children. The six children now living are widely scattered, some of them having homes in the West. The mother died at the age of forty-two years, and the father at seventy-one years. They were interred in the Noank cemetery. When but ten years old Albert W. Perkins began to accompany his father on his fishing and coasting expeditions, and he subsequently continued in this employment for twenty-four years. On April 1st, 1870, he began mercantile business in his present store. He carries a good assortment of general dry goods and notions, and has been very successful. The busy little village of Noank counts him as one of her most substantial and reliable business men. On Jan. 22nd, 1858, Mr. Perkins married Miss JULIA AVERY BURROWS, of Groton Bank, and a daughter of Austin and Almira (Hill) Burrows, whose father, Samuel B. Hill, was among the slain at the battle of Groton Heights. Austin Burrows died in 1892, aged eighty-one years, leaving a son and two daughters. Six children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, namely: Lucy Perkins, wife of Charles I. Fitch, of Noank, and the mother of four children; C. C. Perkins, a prominent merchant in New London, CT; Myra Perkins, wife of Otto W. Monroe, of Providence, R. I., and the mother of three children; Warren C. Perkins, who married Flora Stanton, of Stonington, CT, resides in that place, and has one daughter, Albert W. Perkins Jr. , sixteen years old, who attends school and assists his father in the store, and Abbie H. Perkins, two years younger, who also is attending school. Mr. Perkins is a loyal supporter of the Republican party, and has served the town in minor offices. He is a Master Mason, and the first charter member of the A. O. U. W. of Noank, now Mystic. He is a member of the historic Baptist church in Noank, About the time of his marriage he built a house, but sold it three years later, and moved into his present residence at 58 Main Street, in which he and his wife have spent thirty-seven of the forty years of their married life.

Source: Biographical Review - Volume XXVI - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of New London County - Connecticut - 1898

RANDOLPH PERKINS, Jersey City, NJ - Lawyer, born at Dunellen, NJ, on November 30th, 1871; son of James & Elizabeth (Kelley) Perkins; married at Woodcliffe Lake, NJ, on January 29th, 1909 to LOUISE TUTTLE (MORRIS), daughter of Henry I. and Elizabeth (Clark) Morris. Randolph Perkins achieved distinction in the legislative history of the state through the passage of what is known as the "Perkins Railroad Tax Law" of 1906. The railroads had been paying about $1,000,000 a year to the state and local treasuries under the Abbett Act of 1884. But, even so, the fact that they were not paying at the rate extracted from individual tax payers nor upon the full value of their holdings, was a constant source of popular irritation. At the opening of the Legislature of 1906, Mr. Perkins, then a member of the House of Assembly from Union county and majority leader on the floor of the Chamber, presented an act designed to equalize the conditions. It applies the average of the local tax rates throughout the state from year to year to the assessed value of railroad properties; and, so that the assessed valuations, the other factor in the computation, may be as nearly even with individual assessments as possible, it was followed by another act taking the function of fixing values on second class railroad properties - those of which pay taxes for the benefit of the local districts, out of the hands of the State Board of Assessors which had always exercised it, and authorizing the local Assessors to fix the valuations. The bill, the first to be offered at the session of that winter, suffered some vicissitudes on its way through the two chambers of Legislature, but Assemblyman Perkins was determined and it was finally sent to Gov. Stokes' s hand and approved. Prior to the enactment of the law, the State had been receiving somewhere between $900,000 and $950,000 a year from the companies. Their annual tax bills had been showing a slightly rising scale each year over the year before. In 1906 the State's total receipts from them were approaching the million-dollar mark. But, the first year the Perkins law became operative, the State's railroad receipts sprang to $3,502,868, and in 1914, the last year for which the State Comptroller's report is at hand, they had climbed to $4,529,852. In the eight years ending in 1914, the State might have received, under the old law, a total of $8,000,000 from the companies. The new law brought her, instead, in that eight years, between $31,000,000 and $32,000,000. The second act, that concerning the laying of the assessments, gave an upward spring, like that in the state's railroad income, to the railroad tax receipts of the localities. The highest total of the local taxing districts receipts under the old system had been $655,000. The first year of the new law they gathered in $1,133,000 from the railroads for local uses, and in 1914 their receipts lacked only $48,000 of the $2,000,000 mark. Mr. Perkins read law in the office of Judge John A. Blair, was admitted to the practice as an attorney in 1903 and as a counselor in 1906. He opened a law office in Jersey City where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. Mr. Perkins public career began when the citizens of Westfield made him Mayor of the town. He was then only thirty-two years of age; and two years later he was sent to the legislature as one of the representatives of Union county in the Hose of Assembly. At the session of 1907 he was the minority choice for Speaker; and, when, at the close of the session, Speaker Lethbridge precipitated almost a riot by leaving the chair to prevent action on some bills he did not favor, the Assemblymen of both parties paid Mr. Perkins the exceptional compliment of selecting him unanimously to sit in Lethbridge's place. Mr. Perkins subsequently moved to Bergen county where he has become as large a factor in republican politics as he had been in Union county. He was for six years Chairman of the Bergen County Republican Committee; and in 1916 made an imposing canvass for the republican nomination for the State Senate.

Source: Scannell's New Jersey first citizens : biographies ... v. 1 (1917/18).

Captain CHARLES H. PERKINS, the manager of the Co-operative Grange Store at North Brooksville, Hancock Co., ME, and an ex-member of the legislature, was born in this town, January 12th, 1840, son of Jeremiah and Prudence (Blodgett) Perkins. The first of the family to settle here was Amos Perkins, the Captain's grandfather, a native of York, ME, who cleared a good farm from the wilderness in the western part of the town, and resided there for the rest of his life. Besides developing the agricultural resources of the locality, he was useful to the community in some of the town offices, and he lived to be seventy-five years old. The maiden name of his wife was Ruth Wardwell. Jeremiah Perkins, who was a lifelong resident of Brooksville, for many years followed the trades of a tanner and shoemaker. His last days were sent upon a farm in North Brooksville, ME and his death occurred at about the same age as that of his father. Prudence Blodgett, his wife, who was a daughter of Captain John K. and Jane (Avery) Blodgett, became the mother of ten children. Of these, six are living; namely, John K. Perkins, Charles H. Perkins, William N. Perkins, Deborah A. Perkins, Hannah M. Perkins, and Mary J. Perkins. The others were: Amos J. Perkins, George O. Perkins, Eben F. Perkins, and Mercy H. Perkins. John K. Perkins is a retired sea captain, residing in New York State. George O. Perkins and Amos J. Perkins were lost at sea, the former in 1854 and the latter in 1891. Eben F. Perkins enlisted in Company B Second Regiment, Maine Volunteer Infantry, and was  killed at the battle of Bull Run. William N. Perkins who resides in Brooksville, ME. Mary J. Perkins married Charles Nash, and resides in Lynn, Mass. After leaving the district schools when twelve years old, Charles H. Perkins began to follow the sea, and became master of a vessel at the age of nineteen. He suffered shipwreck in 1867, the disaster being attended with no loss of life, however. He had spent some twenty-eight years in seafaring when he bought a farm and engaged in its cultivation. This was his occupation until 1887, since which time he has been in charge of the Co-operative Grange Store in North Brooksville, ME. Captain Perkins has been twice married, first to RUTH GRINDLE, of Sedgwick, ME. The maiden name of his present wife was HANNAH GRINDLE. His children by the first wife were: Mary Perkins, Cora A. Perkins, Izetta B. Perkins, Charles M. Perkins, Emma F. Perkins, Forest H. Perkins, Harvey Perkins, Fred J. Perkins, Morris W. Perkins and Eliza A. Perkins. May Perkins married Edgar Roberts, and has one daughter, Beatrice Roberts. Cora A. Perkins died at the age of twenty-three years, and Izetta B. Perkins at the age of twenty-two. Charles M. Perkins, who is the principal of the high school at Presque Isle, ME, married Alice Benson, and has two children -- Newman Perkins and an infant. Emma F. Perkins died at the age of nineteen. Forest H. Perkins is teaching school in Sherman, Aroostook Co., ME. Harvey Perkins married Lila Clauson, and has two children -- Henry Perkins and an infant. Fred J. Perkins and Morris W. Perkins are residing at home, and Eliza A. Perkins is attending school. The captain cast his first Presidential vote for Abraham Lincoln in 1864, and has since supported the Republican party. The party elected him to the State legislature in 1885. He has served for one year. In addition to his membership in the Masonic order and the Patrons of Husbandry, he is connected with the local grange, of which he was the Master for eight years.

Source: Biographical Review Vol. XXIX - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, ME - (1898)
 

WILLIAM N. PERKINS, a retired business man of Penobscot, Hancock Co., ME, was born in Harrington, ME, December 1st, 1818, son of Thomas and Clarissa (Nash) Perkins. The grandfather, Daniel Perkins, a native of York, ME, before there were any roads in the district, settled in the southern part of Penobscot township, ME. There he spent the rest of his life excepting the period of the Revolutionary War, during which he stayed in his native town. The maiden name of his wife was Abigail Penny. Thomas Perkins, the father, born in York, ME, was educated under the tuition of a minister in Sedgwick, ME. He taught school for a time, during which period he lived in Harrington, ME. After returning to the homestead in 1826, he bought the Winslow place in the village, also purchased a saw and grist mill, which he carried on for many years. He died at the age of eighty. Clarissa (Nash) Perkins, his wife, became the mother of ten children; namely, Daniel M. Perkins, Eliza Ann Perkins, Alexander G. Perkins, Gilbert Perkins, William N. Perkins, Augustus S. Perkins, Abbie Perkins, Mary Perkins, Priscilla Perkins and Edgar S. Perkins. Of these, Daniel M. Perkins, Eliza Ann Perkins, Alexander G. Perkins, Gilbert Perkins, Priscilla Perkins and Edgar S. Perkins are no longer living. Augustus S. Perkins is a retired merchant of Castine, ME, and Abbie Perkins and Mary Perkins reside in Penobscot, ME. William N. Perkins has resided in Penobscot, ME since he was eight years old. After completing his studies in the district schools he assisted his father upon the farm until he was twenty-two. Afterward, in company with his brother, he established the first store in the neighborhood, and the partnership existed for twenty-five years. He then opened a store upon his own account, and also engaged in ship-building and lumbering, furnishing the timber for the construction of several vessels, mostly schooners. At a later period he admitted his son into partnership in the business of the store. He has been out of business now for the past ten years. Mr. Perkins married PHOEBE A. PERKINS, who is the mother of eight children; namely, Justin Perkins, Roscoe Perkins, Bertha Perkins, Dora Perkins, William Rosco Perkins, Ernest Perkins, Elmer E. Perkins and Jay Perkins. Justin Perkins, Roscoe Perkins and Dora Perkins are no longer living. William Rosco Perkins married Oressa Van Buskirk, of Cherryfield, ME; Elmer E. Perkins married Marjorie Perkins, of Ellsworth, ME and has four children; and Jay Perkins is a physician in Providence, R.I. The father has served as road surveyor for twenty-five years. He cast his first Presidential vote for W. H. Harrison in 1840, has been a Republican since the formation of the party, and is an earnest advocate of temperance cause.

Source: Biographical Review Vol. XXIX - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, ME - (1898)
 

AUGUSTUS PERKINS, a retired merchant of Castine, Hancock Co., ME, was born in Harrington, Washington Co., ME, June 23rd, 1820, son of Thomas and Clara (Nash) Perkins. His paternal grandfather, Daniel Perkins, was a native of York, ME. He settled in Penobscot, Hancock Co., ME, previous to the Revolutionary War; and, when the British troops invaded this section, his buildings were burned and his cattle confiscated. He spent his last days in Penobscot, ME and lived to be about seventy years old. The maiden name of his wife was Penny. Thomas Perkins, son of Daniel Perkins, was born in Penobscot, ME. He acquired a good education and for some time was engaged in teaching school in Harrington, ME. Returning to his native town, he followed general farming in connection with lumbering for the rest of his active period. His wife, whose name before marriage was Clara Nash, was a native of Addison, ME. She became the mother of nine children, four of whom are living; namely; William N. Perkins who married Phoebe Perkins, and resides in Penobscot, ME; Augustus Perkins, the subject of this sketch, Abbie Perkins, wife of Savillian Babson, of Brooksville, ME; and Mary H. Perkins, who is unmarried. The others were: Daniel M. Perkins, Eliza Ann Perkins, A. G. Perkins, Edgar S. Perkins and Pricilla Perkins. Thomas Perkins died at the age of eighty years. Augustus Perkins was educated in the public schools of Penobscot, ME. He began life for himself as a store clerk, and from 1840 to 1860 was engaged in general mercantile business on his own account in his native town. Coming to Castine, ME in 1865, he purchased the Jarvis store, and carried on a profitable trade for thirty-three years, at the end of which time he sold out to his son-in-law. Mr. Perkins married ABBIE H. WILSON, daughter of Josiah and Annie (Perkins) Wilson, and has reared two daughters -- Annie P. Perkins and Carrie P. Perkins. Annie P. Perkins married Frank E. Lewis, who succeeded to her fathers business. She has one daughter, Gerturde Lewis. Carrie P. Perkins married H. A. Hobbs, and resides in Portland, ME. Mr. Perkins cast his first Presidential vote for Henry Clay in 1844. He has supported the Republican party every since its formation, but has never sought for nor held public office. He is highly esteemed by his numerous friends and acquaintances throughout this section of the State. He is a member of the Masonic order.

Source: Biographical Review Vol. XXIX - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, ME - (1898)
 

GEORGE W. PERKINS, a prosperous farmer of Castine, Hancock Co., ME, was born in this town, February 23rd, 1833, son of Mark H. and Lois (Bowden) Perkins, both of whom were natives of Castine, ME. His grandfather, Stover Perkins, was one of the early merchants and ship-builders of the town. Residing about two miles north of the village, Grandfather Perkins became quite an old man. The maiden name of his wife was Annie Hatch. Mark H. Perkins, the father, settled upon wild land in the northern part of the town. He was engaged in farming and lumbering during his active years, and died at the age of eighty-four. His wife became the mother of four children, two of whom are living, namely; George W. Perkins, the subject of this sketch, and Louisa Perkins who married Mark E. Hatch, of Castine, ME, and has three children -- William Hatch, Luella Hatch, and Lettie Hatch. The others were: Mark Perkins, sea captain, who married Ellen Hatch, and left one son, Harry F. Perkins, now of Bangor, ME; and John Perkins, who was lost at sea in his twenty-third year, while on a voyage with his brother. George W. Perkins was educated in the common schools. After the completion of his studies he went to sea for a time. The greater part of his active period, however, has been devoted to farming and trading. Since the death of his father he has occupied the homestead, which is a well-known landmark on account of its having been the site of the Methodist camp-meeting ground for many years. His farming has been very successful. In politics he is a Republican, and he cast his first Presidential vote for John C. Fremont in 1856. He was school agent for a time, and he served in the capacity of Selectman for fourteen years, after which he declined further nomination. Mr. Perkins first married CLARISSA A. MORGRAGE, who bore him two sons -- John W. Perkins and Edward D. Perkins. A second marriage united him with MARY E. LAWRENCE, who has one daughter, Lois M. Perkins. John W. Perkins, who was not married, and resided at home, died recently at the age of thirty-six years. Edward D. Perkins, after teaching in Maine for some time and serving as the principal of a large school in Washington, D.C., graduated with honors from the Georgetown Medical School, and since 1894 has practiced medicine at the national capital. Lois M. Perkins, who was a school teacher for several years, married Harry S. Soper, of Bucksport, ME.

Source: Biographical Review Vol. XXIX - Containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook Counties, ME - (1898)
 

EDMUND TAYLOR PERKINS Jr., civil engineer, was born at Scottsville, VT, Sept. 8th, 1864, son of Edmund Taylor and Mary Sydnor (Addison) Perkins, and a descendant of Nicholas Perkins, who lived at Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico Co., VA, early in the seventeenth century. Among his ancestors were those who fought in the revolutionary war and were otherwise prominent in the struggle for independence. On the maternal side he is descended from Col John Addison, who came from Litchfield, England, in 1667, and built his home on the banks of the Potomac, opposite Mount Vernon. Rev. Edmund Taylor Perkins, DD., (q.v.), father of our subject was a prominent clergyman of the Episcopal Church. The son received his preparatory education at the Episcopal High School, Alexandra, VA, and was graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., with the degree of A.B. and C.E. in 1885, receiving the degree of A.M. from the same institution three years later. During 1885-1902 he served with the U.S. Geological Survey in topography, triangulation and precise leveling; he was identified with the U.S. reclamation service, in charge of steam gauging and the determination of run-off factors; he was also in charge of the investigation of the Colorado river, including preliminary surveys and the plans of the Yuma project, Yuma, AZ; for several years he was general inspector of all projects. Thereafter until 1909, he was in charge of the Chicago transportation and contracting office. Since 1909 until the present time he has been at the head of the Edmund T. Perkins Engineering Co., as consulting and supervising engineer, Chicago, ILL. He has served as a member of the Everglades Engineering Commission of the state of Florida, to report to the state upon the possibility and feasibility of reclaiming the Everglades; the plan, contemplating an expenditure of $30,000,000, was adopted by the state administration, by whom the first unit, from Lake Okeechobee to St. Luci Inlet, is now being constructed. Mr. Perkins was in charge of the Marion County Drainage district, MO, holding the Missouri record for the shortest time employed in organizing, surveying, planning and constructing the district. He has served as chief engineer of the South Quincy drainage and levee district, Adams Co., IL, Green Bay levee and drainage district, Lee Co., IA, Lima Lake drainage district, Adams Co., IL; Savanna and York drainage district, Carroll Co., IL; Gregory drainage district, Lewis and Clark Co., IL; West Alton drainage district, St. Charles Co., MO; Steffenville drainage district, Knox and other counties, MO., and other districts totaling about 75,000 acres of wet and overflowed lands. He was president of the Chicago Irrigation Association, and is now (1920) president of the National Drainage Congress and the American Association of Engineers; president of the American Association Reclamation Federation; member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Association of Engineers; Western Society of Engineers; Illinois Society of Engineers; Chicago Association of Commerce; the University, Iroquois and Engineers clubs of Chicago; Glen View and Golf clubs, IL; Engineers Club of N. Y. and the Chevy Chase Club, MD. Mr. Perkins is characterized by directness and quick decisions. He is the author of various magazine articles and lectures on the work of the government along geological and irrigation lines. His favorite diversions are golf and baseball. He was married at Los Angeles, Calf., June 3rd, 1903; to JEAN WATERS of Plumas Co., Calf; Mrs. Perkins died in February, 1917. There were no children. He was married (2nd) Aug., 17th, 1918, to LOUISE SAMSON-SCRIBNER, daughter of Prof. F. Samson-Scribner of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Source: The National cyclopaedia of American biography, being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time (1893) vol. XVII

ARCHIBALD A. PERKINS was born in Bethany, CT, in 1819. His father's name was Jesse Perkins (b.1786), and he was a son of Archibald Abner Perkins (b.1758), who was a resident of Woodbridge, CT (now included in Bethany, CT) and kept a tavern on the New Haven and Waterbury Turnpike for over sixty years. He was a deacon in the Episcopal church of Bethany, CT for many years. He was twice married, his first wife being a Miss HULDAH (WOODING) and the second a Miss SARAH (FRENCH). Their children were: Lybias Perkins (b.1782); Archibald A. Perkins (b.1784); Jesse Perkins (b.1786); Guy Perkins (b.1798); James Perkins (b.1808); Burr Perkins; Charles Perkins; Rebecca Perkins and Sarah Perkins.

Archibald A. Perkins  (b.1784), was shoemaker and tanner by trade and was one of Bethany's prominent men, representing the town in the legislature several terms and was justice of the peace for many years married MOLLY (HOTCHKISS). He was also prominent in the Masonic Order.
Jesse Perkins (b.1786) was a joiner by trade. He married CHARLOTTE (HOTCHKISS) and their children were: Hiram Perkins; Maria Perkins; Celestia Perkins, Jesse D. Perkins; Nancy Perkins; Noah H. Perkins and Archibald A. Perkins.

Archibald A. Perkins (b.1819) is a brass and iron molder by trade and for fourteen years was superintendent of the W. & B. Douglass Manufacturing Company of Middletown, CT., after which he was superintendent of the brass foundry of J. B. Sargent & Co., of New Haven, CT for nine years. He enlisted in Co. B., 25th Connecticut Infantry in 1862, and served thirteen months. He became a resident of East Haven, CT about 1867. He married MALVINA (ANDREWS) of Bristol in 1840. Their children were: Martha M. Perkins born 1844 and Noah H. Perkins born 1850. Martha M. Perkins married Lovell Jones. Their children are: Helen M. Jones, Jesse Jones and Bertha Jones. Mr. Perkins married for his second wife, BARBARA (PATRICK).

*Sources in Red* Added by transcriber
Source: History of New Haven, CT, Volume 1.
Source: The Descendants of Edward Perkins of New Haven, CT
 

LYMAN HOLMES PERKINS, son of Jason B. and Jerusha Blackmere (Holmes) Perkins, was born in Springfield, MA, March 29th 1864. He received his education in the public schools of his native city, and then studied architecture, associating himself with his father and engaging in architectural and construction work for many years. He also assisted in  erecting a number of important public buildings in Springfield, including Central High School and the North Chestnut Street School, and a number of residences in the city. Mr. Perkins has served on the Republican City Committee of Springfield, and also was a representative to the State Legislature in 1895, where he was a member of the Committee on Roads and Bridges. He was one of the originators of the idea of a "safe and sane" Fourth of July celebration. Fraternally, Mr. Perkins is a member of the Springfield Lodge, Fee and Accepted Masons. He married (first) Mabel Catherine Choate; (second) Charlotte E. Williams. To the first marriage one son, Ralph Warren Perkins, now deceased, was born. He received his preparatory education in the schools of his native city, and then entered Phelps Academy at Exeter and here prepared for and later entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer. At the time of his death, he was associated in this capacity with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.

Source: Encyclopedia of Massachusetts, Biographical Genealogical
 

Source: History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts - 1736-1900, with Genealogies by Lucy Cutler Kellogg (1902)

GEORGE W. PERKINS, actively engaged in farming and stock raising at Blanding, UT was born at Cedar City, Utah, January 22nd, 1879, his parents being Hyrum and Rachel C. (Cory) Perkins, who were married at Cedar City and in 1880 cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of San Juan County, where the father followed farming and stock raising and took an active part in the upbuilding and development of the district. He died at Bluff, UT in 1917, while the mother is still living. George W. Perkins is indebted to the public schools of Bluff, UT for the educational opportunities which he enjoyed. When twenty-one years of age he began raising cattle and in 1908 he and his brothers, H. C. Perkins and Daniel Perkins, united their interests and bought an interest in a ranch, which now represents an investment of one hundred thousand dollars in stock and land. George W. Perkins removed to Blanding, UT in 1917, purchased a home and obtained large tracts of land hear the town. He is the most progressive and enterprising young business men and is very highly respected. At Salt Lake City, UT , on the 8th of April, 1902, Mr. Perkins was married to Miss ANNIE BAYLES, a daughter of Bishop H. and Mary A. Bayles. The father was a pioneer of San Juan county, UT and came to Blanding, UT as one of the first settlers, removing to this town from Bluff, UT. He was immediately ordained bishop and occupied the position until 1918, when he was released. He still makes his home at Blanding, UT. To Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have been born seven children, Louvine Perkins, whose birth occurred January 31, 1905; Hanson E. Perkins born November 27th, 1907; Marie Perkins, whose natal day was March 17th, 1909; Clarence Perkins, born in March, 1911; Roy W. Perkins, who was born in August, 1914; Carl Perkins born in August, 1917, and Rosella Perkins, born in September 1919. In religious faith, Mr. Perkins is connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1898 he filled a mission to the southern states and in 1906 and 1907 filled a mission to the northwestern states. His political endorsement is given the republican party and in 1918 he was elected county commissioner of San Juan county, in which position he has since creditably and ably served. He is a representative citizen of this section of the state, alert, enterprising and progressive, and in farming and stock raising interests has manifested sound judgment and keen sagacity. His enterprise has brought him prominently to the front in this connection and he is meeting with very substantial success as the reward of his labor.

Source: Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical, Volume 4 by: Noble Warrum (1920)

CHRISTOPHER C. PERKINS, is now living retired at Kaysville, UT but for a long period was identified with farming interests and thereby won the success that enables him now to rest from further labor. He was born in Hancock, Illinois, January 4th, 1836, a son of Absalom/Absolom and Nancy (Martin) Perkins, the former a native of Tennessee, while the latter was born in Virginia. They became residents of Nauvoo, Illinois, where they resided until 1848 and then crossed the plains with ox teams to Utah, settling in Salt Lake City, where both the father and mother passed away. They had a family of thirteen children, all of whom are deceased with the exception of Christopher C. Perkins of this review. Christopher C. Perkins acquired a limited education and engaged in farming and teaming in early life. After attaining his majority he became a resident of Davis county, having up to that time made his home in Salt Lake from the age of twelve years, when his parents brought their family to Utah. He has now for many years been a resident of Davis county, UT and his activity has numbered him with its promoters and upbuilders. He was one of the pioneer settlers who aided in quelling the Indians when they became hostile toward the white settlers. The utmost privations and hardships were endured by the soldiers, who almost starved. Their food supply became so exhausted that they had to kill and eat their dogs in order to remain alive. Many of the difficulties of settlement on the frontier are familiar to Mr. Perkins and his stories of pioneer days are most interesting, for he passed through many of the scenes and experience the conditions which figured in the early history of this section of the state. He early settled upon the tract of land which is still his home and he yet occupies the log cabin which he build many years ago. In 1860 Mr. Perkins was married to Miss ELIZABETH ANN ROBBINS, a native of England and a daughter of Edmund and Elizabeth (Welch) Robbins, who were also natives of that country and came to America in 1859, establishing their home in Utah, where their remaining days were passed. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins became the parents of nine children: C. J. Perkins, who follows farming; Elizabeth E. Perkins, the wife of Efrem Barnett; Nancy A. Perkins, the wife of John Simpson; Richard Perkins; Edmund T. Perkins; William A. Perkins; Joseph M. Perkins; Hyrum Perkins and Alice Perkins, both of whom have departed this life. Mr. Perkins has now passed the eighty-third milestone on life's journey and with every phase of the early development of Davis county he is acquainted. He is today one of its most venerable and esteemed pioneer settlers and no history of this section of state would be complete without  mention of him.

Source: Utah Since Statehood: Historical and Biographical, Volume 3 - (1919)
 

JAMES W. PERKINS, of DeLand, FL, was born in Floyd Co., GA, in 1863. His father, James P. Perkins, came to Sumter county, FL, in 1869, as one of the early settlers; removed to Monroe county in 1871, and became a prominent in public affairs, representing that count in the legislature for two terms. Later, he removed with his family to Fort Myers, FL, took an active part in the development of that section oft he State, and resided there until 1885, when President Cleveland appointed him clerk of the Indian agency in Arizona, where he died in 1896. His son, James W. Perkins, was educated in the public schools of Monroe Co., FL and later attended the Eastman business college, where he was graduated in 1884. When only thirteen years old he became a sailor, but after five years of life at sea secured a clerkship in a store at Ft. Myers. While there he saved the money that paid his way through college. After leaving school he spent some time in Arizona and other parts of the West. Returning to Florida in 1897, he located at Leesburg and remained there two years. In 1889 he came to DeLand and engaged as assistant book-keeper in the large mercantile house of Dreka & Co., a position he resigned to accept appointment as first deputy sheriff of Volusia Co.. About the same time he took up the study of law and in 1892 resigned his office to enter the law department of Cumberland university at Lebanon, TN. In 1895 he was graduated from this institution, returned to DeLand and began the active practice of his profession. He was appointed by Governor Mitchell prosecuting attorney of the criminal court of Volusia Co., receiving a re-appointment, and served continuously until 1900. In that year he was elected to the same office for a term of four years and is now serving in that capacity. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Deland, FL. He has always taken an active interest in politics and for eight years has been secretary and treasurer of the county executive committee of his party. In 1897 he was married to MARY SMITH, of Pomeroy, Ohio

Source: Memoirs of Florida v. 2

Captain JOHN D. PERKINS, of Tallahassee, was born in that city in 1843, and eighteen years later enlisted in the Howell Guards, an independent company commanded by Capt. George W. Parkhill, which, after going to Virginia, became Company M of the Second regiment Florida infantry. He shared in the service of his regiment in the battles of the army of Northern Virginia, gaining promotion to the rank of first lieutenant, until the battle of Gettysburg, when he was badly wounded in the fighting of July 2nd. He lay upon the field for three days suffering with wounds that caused the amputation of a leg when he was taken to the Federal hospital. From Gettysburg he was sent to hospital at Baltimore , and afterward he was confined at Fort Mc Henry and Point Lookout, MD, until March 9th, 1864. While yet in prison he was promoted to captain of his company. After exchange at City Point, Captain Perkins returned to Florida and was made commander of the post at Tallahassee, his duty until the close of the hostilities. He is treasurer of Leon Co., FL, and one of its most prominent citizens.

Source: Memoirs of Florida

IRA A. PERKINS, a well-to-do farmer, was born in Troup county Georgia, March 11th, 1836, and is the son of Jesse Perkins, a native of South Carolina, who was born in 1814. Jesse Perkins is now living in Lamar county, Texas. At his former residence, in Troup county, Georgia, he was a leader among the farming class, and was noted for his success and thorough manner of conducting his business. He is also a mechanic. Mr. Perkins is a Master Mason and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, in which he has been a deacon for about forty-five years. He enlisted under the banner of the church when very young, has been a constant Christian ever since, and trusts that he is still growing in grace. Jesse Perkins was married in his native county August 16th, 1832, to Miss Mary Allen, a daughter of Ira Allen, who was reared in South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins were the parents of fifteen children, all but four of whom are now living. Their names are as follows - Francis E. Perkins, Henry Perkins, Henry C. Perkins, Ira A. Perkins, Thomas A. Perkins, James P. Perkins, William S. Perkins, Frank E. Perkins, Mary E. Perkins, Sarah E. Perkins, Jessie S. Perkins, Joseph W. Perkins, Benjamin F. Perkins, Mildred A. Perkins and Julia F. Perkins. Ira A. Perkins began his career as a farmer in Lamar county, Texas, in 1857, and has ever since followed that vocation, taking a prominent position by virtue of his progressive methods and the intelligence with which he conducts his affairs. Mr. Perkins served for four years in the Confederate army in Company F, Pole and Ax regiment. He was in the battles at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, and Huntonia, Missouri, and had his finger shot off at Mansfield, Louisiana, when he was honorably discharged and returned home to care for his family. Mr. Perkins was married September 5th, 1856, to Miss SUSAN J. BRACKEEN, a daughter of James Brackeen, a native of Tennessee. Twelve children have been born to them as follows - James T. Perkins, Mary A. Perkins, Laura J. Perkins, Rosella Perkins, Nancy F. Perkins, Sarah E. Perkins, William S. Perkins, Nancy A. Perkins, Mildred A. Perkins, Jessie E. Perkins, Jesse S. Perkins, and Ira L. Perkins. All but three are living, and all are doing well or bid fair to do well. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the K of H. He is also a member of the Baptist church, and has been since he was fourteen years old; for the past seven years, or more, he has been a deacon in the church. He is the owner of 454 acres of the rich, black land for which Texas is noted, and which is well adapted for the growth of any of the crops raised in the State. He has won his success by his own energy, prudence and industry, and he also has the confidence and esteem of all who know him, and is one of the most popular men in the country.

Source: Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas
 

W. G. PERKINS, mayor of Greenville, Texas, was born in Polk county, Missouri, October 22nd, 1837, and is a son of Elijah and Elizabeth (Winton) Perkins. Elijah Perkins was a native of Grayson county, Virginia, was a Methodist Episcopal minister, and a member of the St. Louis (Missouri) conference for a number of years. His death took place in Greene county, Missouri, at the age of forty-five years. Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins was born in Roane county, Tennessee; was a daughter of William Winton, and died in Cooper, Texas, in 1879. W. G. Perkins is the second born of five living children, the other four being - Jane Perkins, George Perkins, Nannie Perkins and Elisha B. Perkins. He was taken to Greene county, Missouri, when he was but ten years of age, and was there educated and reared to manhood. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, Captain Dick Campbell's company, Third Missouri battalion, and served in Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee until the end of the war. In June, 1865, he came to Texas and taught school in Lamar county for seven years; then for five years was engaged in mercantile business, in Cooper, Texas, and then settled in Greenville, where for two years he was in the newspaper business. In 1875 he went to the drug business, the style of the firm now being J. F. Sackwell & Co. He was for four years school trustee in Greenville; was elected mayor in April, 1886, and re-elected in April, 1888. The marriage of Mr. Perkins took place in 1866 to Miss MARY ALLEN, of Alabama, a daughter of Sherrod Allen. Of the children born to this union two are
 living - Willie Perkins and Pete Perkins. Mr. Perkins is a Free Mason and a Knight of Honor, and with his wife a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

Source: Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas; F.A. Battey & Co. (1889)
 

THOMAS J. PERKINS, senior of the firm of Thos. J. Perkins & Son, cotton and commission merchants of Tallahassee, Fla., is one of the oldest and most substantial business men of that city. He was born in Queen Anne's County, Md., May 3rd, 1817, and is a son of John D. and Elizabeth (Bradshaw) Perkins. John D. Perkins was a son of Thomas and Mary K. (Maulden) Perkins, the former born in Baltimore, Md., January 14th, 1762, and his death taking place December 22nd, 1832. Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins was a native of Kent County, Md., and died in March 1858. She was the daughter of James Bradshaw, a descendant of the president of high court that tried Charles L. England. Thomas J. Perkins is one of a family of six children that lived to be of adult age, viz: Mary J. Perkins, born January 5th, 1814; Frances A. Perkins, born October 26th, 1815 (died in October, 1887); John B. Perkins, born March 31st, 1819 (died near Harper's Ferry, during the late war, in the Federal service); Eben F. Perkins, born March 16th, 1821 (died August 9th, 1882); William C. Perkins, born May 24th, 1826 (died June 22nd, 1887), and the subject of this sketch, as recorded above.  Thomas J. Perkins settled in Tallahassee October 24th, 1837, has been there ever since, and these peculiar facts, here following, constitute a somewhat romantic record of his stay. He was agent for one railroad company thirteen years; he was partner of one man, John H. Earle, in the cotton commission business, thirty-one years; he has used the same office, same desk and same chair thirty-six years; he has used the same gold watch thirty-eight years; he has been superintendent of the same Sunday-school forty-two years; he has been a member, trustee and steward of the same church forty-six years; he has kept the records of his church, in his own handwriting, forty-five years; he has lived happily with the same wife forty-eight years; he has lived in the same house forty-seven years; and has lived in the same town fifty-one years. Can there be found another instance of such indefatigability and tenaciousness in the whole South ?. November 28th, 1839, Mr. Perkins married Miss AMELIA M. KEOWIN, daughter of John Keowin, of Charleston, S. C. To this congenial union have been born ten children, of whom there are seven living, viz: John Day Perkins (in partnership with his father); Frances E. Perkins, Annie B. Perkins, William W. Perkins, Florence P. Perkins, Thomas J. Perkins Jr., and Lawrence A. Perkins. Of the family four are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, one Presbyterian, one Catholic and one Episcopalian; two are not members of any church, but attend the Episcopal Church with their wives.

Source: Biographical Souvenir of the states of Georgia and Florida: F.A. Battey & Co. (1889)

DANIEL R. PERKINS, Now living on Alabama Flat, was born on September 26th, 1822, in the town of Manchester, Hartford Co., CT. His father was David Perkins who married Miss HANNAH RUSSELL. His mother was JERUSHA BIDWELL, whose father was a lawyer in Connecticut. Daniel Perkins was born on a farm, when old enough he entered a paper mill as machine tender. In March, 1852 he sailed on the Daniel Webster for San Francisco, CA. After arriving in California he went direct to Placeville and began mining, in a short time removed to Johnstown and in company with Mr. Fox began farming on what was called Bole's Flat. In 1875 he visited his friends in the Atlantic States, returning again in 1876, he and John Hubbard are now the only residents of Alabama Flat.

Source: Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, CA (1883)
 

EDMUND TAYLOR PERKINS Jr., civil engineer, was born at Scottsville, VT, Sept. 8th, 1864, son of Edmund Taylor and Mary (Addison) Perkins, and a descendant of Nicholas Perkins, who lived at Tuckahoe Creek, Henrico Co., VA, early in the seventeenth century. Among his ancestors were those who fought in the Revolutionary war and were otherwise prominent in the struggle for independence. On the maternal side he is descended from Col. John Addison, who came from Litchfield, England, in 1667, and built his home on the banks of the Potomac, opposite Mount Vernon. Rev. Edmund Taylor Perkins, D.D., (q.v.) father of our subject, was a prominent clergyman of the Episcopal Church. The son received his preparatory education at the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, VA, and was graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., with the degree of A. B. and C. E. , in 1885, receiving the degree of A. M. from the same institution three years later. During 1885-1902 he served with the U. S. Geological Survey in topography, triangulation and precise leveling; he was identified with the U.S. reclamation service, in charge of stream gauging and the determination of the run-off factors; he was also in charge of the investigation of the Colorado river, including preliminary surveys and the plans of the Yuma project, Yuma, Arizona; for several years he was general inspector of all projects. Thereafter, until 1909, he was in charge of the Chicago transportation and contracting office. Since 1909 until the present time he has been at the head of the Edmund T. Perkins Engineering Co., as consulting and supervising engineer, Chicago, Ill. He has served as a member of the Everglades Engineering Commission of the state of Florida, to report to the state upon the possibility and feasibility of reclaiming the Everglades, the plan, contemplating an expenditure of $30,000,000, was adopted by the state administration, by whom the first unit, from Lake Okeechobee to St. Luci Inlet, is now being constructed. Mr. Perkins was in charge of the Marion County Drainage district, MO, holding the Missouri record for the shortest time employed in organizing, surveying, planning and constructing the district. He has served as chief engineer of the South Quincy drainage and levee district, Adams Co., Ill; Green Bay levee and drainage district, Lee Co., IA; Lima Lake drainage district, Adams Co., Ill; Savanna and York drainage district, Carroll Co., Ill; Gregory drainage district, Lewis and Clark Counties, Ill; West Alton drainage district, St. Charles Co., MO; Steffenville drainage district, Knox and other counties, MO,and other districts totaling about 75,000 acres of wet and overflowed lands. He was president of the Chicago Irrigation Association, and is now (1920) president of the National Drainage Congress and the American association of Engineers; president of the American Reclamation Federation; member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Association of Engineers; Western Society of Engineers, Illinois Society of Engineers; Chicago Association of Commerce; the University, Iroquois and Engineers clubs of Chicago; Glen View and Golf clubs, Ill; Engineers Club of N. Y. , and the Chevy Chase Club, MD. Mr. Perkins is characterized by directness and quick decisions. He is the author of various magazine articles and lectures on the work of the government along geological and irrigation lines. His favorite diversions are golf and baseball. He was married 1st at Los Angeles, Cal., June 3rd, 1903, to JEAN WATERS of Plumas Co., CA; Mrs. Perkins died in February, 1917. There were no children. He was married 2nd, Aug. 17th, 1918, to LOUISE SAMSON SCRIBNER, daughter of Prof. F. Samson Scribner of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Source: The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 17 (1920)
 

DANIEL H. PERKINS, a Pioneer of El Dorado Co., CA who came to California in 1852, died at Placerville, December 5th, aged 90 years. He was a native of Manchester, Connecticut.

Source: Grizzle Bear - by Native sons of the Golden West, Native Daughters of the Golden West (1907)

 

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