Transcribed From:

New York Perkins Men
Various Newspapers


~Perkins Research~

Florence S. Perkins, only child of Frederick and Clara J. Perkins, died at Jamaica Plain, NY on Monday last. Deceased was a grandchild of Harrison W. Streeter of this city, and the funeral is to take place in this city tomorrow.
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1873: Feb. 4th - Winona Daily Republican - Winona, MN.

Leroy Perkins, a brother of Mr. H.(Hollis) D. Perkins of this city, and a conductor en the Erie railroad between Hornellsville, New York and Dunkirk, New York, fell between the cars last week, and received fatal injuries from which he died in twenty-three hours.
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1883: Feb. 28th - Winona Daily Republican - Winona, MN.

News was received on Monday of the death of Mrs. Mary Haskin, at Dunkirk, New York, on Feb. 26th, aged 85 years. Deceased was the mother of Mrs. H.(Hollis) D. Perkins of Winona, MN, and had made a number of acquaintances here during her visits to her daughter. Her amiable disposition is most pleasantly remembered by all who knew her.

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1887: Dec. 13th - Winona Daily Republican - Winona, MN.

A Telegram received today announcing the death of Mr. Henry O. Haskin at Salt Lake City, on Monday evening, the 12th inst. He was a resident of Winona in the early times of the city, and was a partner of Mr. H.(Hollis) D. Perkins in the grocery business. He was a brother of Mrs. Perkins.
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1893: Jan. 6th - Lowell Daily Courier - Lowell, MA

Jane M. C. Perkins died at the residence of her son, Samuel J. Lovrien/Lovrion, 28 Dover street today, at the advanced age of 83 years. She had lived in Lowell fifty years. She was the widow of James W. Perkins, and a native of Alexandria, N.H.
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1893: May 4th - Lowell Daily Courier - Lowell, MA

Rev. Frederick T. Perkins died at Burlington, VT, aged 82. His service as a minister exceeded 50 years.
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1899: June 19th -Winona, MN - Daily Republican

Mr. H. (Hollis) D. Perkins died on Saturday afternoon at 1o'clock. The cause of his death was the grip, of which he had a severe attack last Winter, and has gradually grown weaker since that time. Mr. Perkins was born on July 4th, 1823, at Sheridan, Chautauqua Co., New York, and resided there until 1856. He was married at Sheridan, NY and came to Winona, MN in 1869. Mr. Perkins conducted a grocery business here, and from that time until 1887, was in the wholesale oil trade. Since that time he has been engaged in the coal and wood business. The deceased was one of the best known men in Winona and vicinity and was admired by all who knew him.

1899 - Unknown - Winona, MN - Newspaper

Another old and highly respected pioneer citizen of Winona has passed away, in the death of Hollis D. Perkins, which occurred on Saturday afternoon.
  For some years Mr. Perkins had suffered from eczema, which affliction prevented him of late years from mingling with his friends in social functions, as formerly. It was early last winter when he had a severe attack of the grip, which laid the foundation of an illness from which he never fully recovered, and which finally culminated in his taking off. Mr. Perkins was born July 4th, 1823, at Sheridan, Chautauqua county, New York, hence had nearly reached the age of 76 years. With his family he located in Winona, reaching here May 26th, 1857 having been married the year previously at Sheridan, the place of his nativity. It was only a couple of months after his arrival in this city, that he became an inmate of the family homestead, at 275 West Sanborn street, which has  been continuously occupied by the family ever since, covering a period of upwards of 40 years. There is probably few instances of so long a continuous occupancy of the same dwelling to be recorded in this city. Mr. Perkins has been an active business man, and his prominence in business affairs for so many years in this city, has given him a wide extended personal acquaintance throughout this section of the state. During the early years of his residence here he engaged in the grocery business, from 56' to 69'. From 69' to 87' he was engaged in the wholesale oil trade, in which he did a large jobbing business. From 87' he has been engaged in the coal and wood business. During all of his business life, covering a period of over 40 years in this city, his career has ever been marked with fidelity to principle. Strict probity and unswerving honesty in all his business relations with his fellow men were the sterling characteristics of the man. Mr. Perkins has exemplified more fully than is common among men, the value of an unostentatious life that fills the measure of its duty and its opportunities. His private and social life were in keeping with his walk among men. The deceased is survived by his widow and one son, Fred D. Perkins. Charles Perkins, another son, died in this city in 1867 (1872). The deceased has also two brothers now living and residents of the state of New York. The funeral took place this afternoon, at 3 o'clock from the family residence, a large concourse of friends gathering to pay their last tribute of respect to the departed. Rev. J. J. Hillmer, officiated. All of the pall bearers were the sons of pioneer citizens of Winona, namely H. M. Lamberton, H. L. Buck, George Solan, H. S. Youmans, J. N. Maybury and Adelbert Porter.
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Mrs. H. (Hollis) D. Perkins died at 7:05 o'clock on Wednesday evening after an illness of from eight to ten weeks from dropsy. ELIZABETH HASKIN was born on March 18th, 1827, in Sheridan, Chautauqua Co., New York, and was married at the same place in 1846 to Mr. H. D. Perkins. They came West in the Spring of 1857 and settled in Winona, MN , occupying continuously from then to their death. The residence at the southeast corner of Sanborn and Huff streets. Two sons resulted from the union, Mr. Charles H. Perkins who died in 1872, and Mr. F. D. Perkins, who survives and makes his home at the old homestead. Mrs. Perkins, while a member of no church, was in former years an attendant at St. Paul's Episcopal church. She was a good Christian woman, large hearted and kind to the poor and always having thought for others. Her husband pre-deceased her a year and a half, he dying on June 17th, 1899. The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon from the family residence. The interment will be made in Woodlawn cemetery.

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1900: July 10th - Winona Daily Republican - Winona, MN.

Mrs. Nancy Perkins, mother of Trainmaster E. G. Perkins, of the Milwaukee Road, died Monday morning at her home, three miles from Houston, in Houston County, aged eighty-five years. Mrs. Perkins has for some months past been slowly failing, but she was in quite remarkably good health for one of her advanced years, and was only compelled to take to her bed on Thursday last. She was born in Sullivan Co., New York, and was married at the age of twenty-one to Nathan S. Perkins, who died in 1867. Mrs. Perkins came of New England people. Her own father was a revolutionary soldier; born in 1766, at the age of fourteen, in 1780 he joined the colonial army. He settled in the State of New York at the beginning of this century, and there Mrs. Perkins was born. She was the last of a family of eleven children, her last surviving brother dying at the age of ninety-one, about three months ago. There were born to Mrs. Perkins ten children, nine sons and one daughter. Of these six sons survive her. They are; Norman Perkins, of the railway mail service with headquarters in St. Paul, MN; Edgar Perkins of Wadena, MN; Franklin Perkins, of Money Creek, MN; Eugene G. Perkins, of La Crosse, WI; George Perkins of California, who is in Boston, MA just now, and D. L. Perkins, of Huron, S.D. The funeral will be held on Wednesday from the Money Creek M. E. Church, of which Mrs. Perkins was a member.
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1900: July 24th - Winona Daily Republican - Winoa, MN

Word has been received here of the death at Buffalo, NY, on the 17th inst., of Mr. Dewitt Clinton Haskin. The deceased was a cousin of Mrs. H. (Hollis) D. Perkins of this city, and was stricken with paralysis while in Minneapolis two years ago. He was a that time brought to Winona and received care in the hospital here before being taken to his home at Buffalo, NY.
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1948: Feb. 4th - Winona Republican - Herald - Winona, MN.

Durand, WI - Funeral services for Rufus Simpson Perkins, 76, life long Pepin Co., WI resident, who died at the Plum City hospital Feb. 25th, were held Sunday afternoon at the Porcupine Valley church with the Rev. R. W. Smith, Hammond, Ind., nephew of Mr. Perkins, and the Rev. Clive Metcalf officiating. Burial was in Arkansaw, MN. Mr. Perkins was born in Jefferson Co., New York, Sept. 10th, 1871, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyram Perkins. He came to Pepin Co., WI with his parents when a small child. He settled in Rio, WI where he learned the jewelry trade around 1900. During his life, he worked as a jeweler and also held the office of assessor for the town of Frankfort for several years. He was a nature lover. He married Miss Mercie V. Shedd, town of Frankfort, July 26th, 1900. They moved here in 1947 and purchased a home. Survivors are his wife, two brothers, George Perkins, Riley Perkins, Canada, and Israel Perkins, Arkansaw, MN , and two sisters, Mrs. Lucy Newman, La Crosse, WI, and Mrs. William (Kate) Weber, Eau Galle, and many relatives and friends. Those who attended the funeral from a distance were the Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Smith, Hammond, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. John Calkins, Chetek, WI.; Mrs. Lucy Newman, La Crosse, WI; the Claude Lampman family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lampman, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Lampman, Mrs. Ida Livingston and Judson, of Eau Claire, WI; Mr. and Mrs. Len Christopherson, Mondovi, and Lynn and Bonnie Christopherson, Nelson.

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