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Transcribed From: The Sun ~Perkins Research~
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1890: Nov. 9th - The Sun, New York, NY.
Mr. Luke Perkins
of Plymouth, MA, died on Saturday, aged 66. He was in the Iron business,
and during the War had extensive contracts with the Government, furnishing
shells for the army and navy. Mr. Perkins
represented the 11th district in the house of representatives, and was a
selectman and overseer of the poor for a number of years. 1892: Feb. 6th - The Sun, New York, NY.
Mrs. Althea Northrup
Perkins died at her home in Syracuse, NY yesterday in the 86th year
of her age. Two children survive her, Mrs. Walter Adams and Prof.
Charles Allan Perkins. Mrs. Perkins was a
cousins of Ethan Allan of Revolutionary fame. She was born in Dutchess
county, and was the last of a family of twelve children. She was of
English origin, and the family at one time owned the greater part of
Dutchess county under a grant from the_____. Prof. Perkins who is _______
Syracuse was formerly consul at Stockholm and Secretary of Legation at
Lisbon. He has the distinction of being the only American citizen who ever
married a wife of royal blood, Marie Isabella Francoise Gurowskin de
Bourbon, daughter of an Infanta of Span and niece of Queen Isabella. 1892: Aug. 23rd - The Sun, New York, NY.
Prof. Charles Allen
Perkins died suddenly at the home of his sister, Mrs. Walter Adams
in Syracuse, yesterday. Prof. Perkins, or "Prince"
Perkins as he was frequently called by his acquaintances, had the
distinction of being the only American citizen who ever contracted a
marriage with a family of royal blood. He was then Secretary of the United
States Legation at Lisbon, and married Isabella Francoise Gurowski de
Bourbon, Princess of the house of Bourbon, daughter of an Infanta of
Spain, and niece of Queen Isabella. The marriage was the result of a
courtship carried on during the exile in various parts of Europe of the
reigning family. Charles Allen Perkins was
born in Litchfield County, Conn. His father was a gentleman farmer and
General of militia. His mother was a Northrup of Dutchess county, N. Y.,
whose brother married a Miss Gould, eldest sister of Jay Gould. Young
Perkins was sent to Paris while a boy to be educated and grew up there.
After leaving school he was placed in a Parisian bank under the protection
of John Y. Mason, United States Minister at that time to France, and
remained three years. Finally a love for students life and study developed
during his school days, carried him back to the "Quarter Latin" that
famous colony of Paris, where such men as Gambetta lived during the empire
preparing their minds for the brilliant part they were to play in the
future republic. Mr. Perkins applied himself to the study of law during
two years. While this engaged his overtaxed health gave way, and he was
obliged to go to Italy, where a milder climate prevailed. There he
lingered two years, studying the history and language of the people. He
was at Naples when the War of the Rebellion broke out, and in its early
stages he was summoned back to America by the death of his father. After
the settlement of his family affairs, he visited Washington, and under the
protection of William H. Seward, a friend of his family, he passed an
examination in the State Department and was appointed Consul and Secretary
of Legation to Stockholm to accompany Gen. J. J. Bartlett, Minister of the
Unites States to Sweden. Mr. Perkins returned to Washington during
President Grant's Administration and was appointed Consul to
Barselona Spain. There he served during the troubled times of the
revolution, and saw that city with Valencia and others, many times in the
_____ of the ____. Some years following Mr. Perkins was called to serve as
private secretary to Col. Charles H. Lewis of West Virginia, whose
brother, the Senator, secured for him his appointment as Minister to
Portugal. It was during his residence at Lisbon that Mr. Perkins was
presented to the Infanta and her daughter who were living in exile,
banished by the revolutionary Government from Spain. With his resignation
of his post at Lisbon, Mr. Perkins's diplomatic career ended.
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1893: March 28th - The Sun, New York, NY. Scranton, NY: Nineteen years ago
last fall, Miss Sarah Young, a daughter of Phineas Young, an Eldredsville,
NY farmer, ran away with Samuel D. Perkins, a
carpenter of that place, and was married to him. At the time of her
elopement, Miss Young was engaged to James W. Horton, the son of a
well-to-do farmer of the neighborhood. Horton had the sympathy of all the
neighbors, but all he would say about the affair was that the girl would
regret her course before she died. Three years later,
Samuel Perkins moved to Scranton, NY with his
wife and two year old daughter named Lizzie Perkins.
In October, 1890, Samuel Perkins died here. and soon afterward his widow
and Miss Lizzie Perkins, the only child,
moved back to Eldresville, NY. Horton had remained single, and a year ago
this spring he married the woman who had jilted him. The neighbors said
they would not live happily, but before long they changed their minds, for
Horton and the wife and step-daughter seemed to be very happy and content
in a little new house on Horton's father's farm. On Sunday, Sept. 12th,
Horton started with Lizzie Perkins for a camp
meeting at Wilbey's grove on the Ottman road, four miles from Eldredsville,
NY. Mrs. Horton was not well enough to go. So she urged her husband and
Lizzie Perkins to go without her. They drove
away in a single buggy, and didn't return that night. The next day it was
learned that they hadn't attended the camp meeting. Horton's father found
that his son had collected several hundred dollars the week before, and
that he and his step-daughter eloped. Mrs. Horton, broken hearted and
discouraged, was stricken with Typhoid fever soon after Horton and
Lizzie Perkins disappeared, and three weeks
later she died. Nothing was heard from the run-away pair until March 18th,
when Charles L. Bedford, a neighbor, received a letter from
Lizzie Perkins, asking him to go have a talk with her mother, and
to write her at East Wharton, how her mother was. She said Horton had
deserted her, and if her mother would forgive her, she would come home.
Mr. Bedford wrote at once, and last Thursday, he got a letter from Peter
C. Caxton of East Wharton, that the dead body of
Lizzie Perkins had been taken from Isaac
Mumford's mill pond, near that place. A note in her pocket was addressed
to Mr. Bedford. It said "Dear Mamma's deal, dead, dead! and I'm not fit to
live! I Killed her!". The note was not signed. On Saturday afternoon,
Lizzie Perkins was buried by the side of her
mother in a little graveyard on the outskirts of Eldredsville, NY. 1895: Oct. 17th - The Sun, New York, NY.
Mr. Hosea B. Perkins,
who lives on Kingsbridge road, near 177th, drove up to the races at Morris
Park yesterday afternoon behind a $600 roadster. Before entering the race
track, he secured his horse near the trolley car station. After the races,
Mr. Perkins got into his wagon and started
for home. He had been driving only a few moments when the horse trod on a
broken guy wire, attached to one of the trolley poles, which lay across
the road. The animal leaped high in the air, almost overturning the wagon,
and then plunged madly ahead for twenty yards, finally falling lifeless to
the ground, breaking the shafts. Mr. Perkins
was unhurt. He called the matter to the attention of acting Captain Freers,
who had charge of the police at the track, and said he would bring suit
for damage against the trolley company. He then took a trolley car home,
after having his wagon cared for. 1902: April 13th - The Sun, New York, NY. Mr. Edward H.
Perkins Jr. died suddenly at his home. He was long one of the most
prominent figures in the New York Banking world. Mr.
Perkins was born in Athens, PA where his father, who recently
celebrated his ninety-second birthday, is still living.
Mr. Perkins came to New York at 19 years of
age, a teller at the National Park Bank. He eventually became the Bank
President. Mr. Perkins had three brothers and
a sister, and several half brothers. All three of his full brothers
entered the Union Army. One became Adjutant General of the army corps,
another arose to Lieutenant-Colonel of his regiment and the third was
killed at the head of the company of engineers he was commanding before
Fredericksburg. Mr. Perkins had been in ill
health for some time. He was the largest stock holder in the Imports and
Traders Bank, and a man of very large wealth.
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1904: Oct. 11th - The Sun, New York, NY. Mr. Benjamin Perkins
died yesterday at his residence. He was the son of
Benjamin Perkins and the late Jane Lawrence. He was born in Boston,
MA on April 30th, 1831. In 1864 he married Josephine Evans Welsh, daughter
of the late Samuel Welsh of Philadelphia, PA. His first wife died in 1877
and in 1896 he married Mrs. Frances Jerome Hildt, who survives him
together with three of his children by his first wife;
G. Lawrence Perkins,
Russell Perkins and Mrs. M. M. Kimball of Boston, MA.
Mr. Perkins was for many years a director of
the Continental National Bank of this city, elected President in 1897,
serving until it consolidated with the Hanover National Bank. 1905: March 30th - The Sun, New York, NY.
Mrs. Grace McCreery, wife of William J.
McCreery and youngest daughter of the late Hosea B.
Perkins, died yesterday. She will be buried from the Perkins
homestead at Fort Washington, Friday. 1909: April 8th - The Sun, New York, NY.
Mrs. Elizabeth West
Perkins, widow of Charles L. Perkins,
died last night. She was 81 years old and was born in Philadelphia, PA.
She is survived by three sons; C. Lawrence Perkins,
George E. Perkins and
Robert P. Perkins and three daughters, Mrs. H. G. Chapman, Mrs. A.
J. Kelly and Mrs. W. Post. 1909: Oct. 6th - The Sun, New York, NY.
William Tecumseh
Perkins died on Monday at the Memorial Hospital, Orange, N. J.,
after an illness of nearly a year. Mr. Perkins was born in Troy in 1848.
He came to New York when he was 19 and connected with the old New York
Dispatch. A short time before the starting of the Daily Graphic, he joined
its staff and remained with it for seventeen years until it ceased
publication, occupying the positions of dramatic critic and business
manager. He later was with the New York Times for a number of years. Mr.
Perkins leaves a widow.
Mr. Stephen Girard
Perkins, 56, died in Rahway, N.J., on Sunday. He was for several
years assistant postmaster at New Brunswick, Canada, and afterward in
Rahway, N.J. He is survived by his wife. 1911: March 21st - The Sun, New York, NY.
J. Deming Perkins
died at his home in Litchfield, Conn, on Sunday of old age. He was
born eighty-one years ago, and his early business career was in New York,
where he was an importer. He returned to Litchfield in 1865, and since
that time had taken an active interest in business and political affairs.
He was one of the incorators and the first president of the Shepaug
Railroad, now the Litchfield branch of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford. He was elected to the State Senate in 1892, and was chairman of
the Senate Committee on the State Prisons. In 1896 he was one of the State
delegates to the Republican national convention. Besides his wife, he
leaves one daughter, the wife of W. W. Rockhill, Unites States Ambassador
to Russia.
James Dudley Perkins
died yesterday at his home in New Rochelle aged 83 years. He was born in
Salem, Mass. He was a thirty-third degree Mason and was a Knight Templar.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. B. W. Wilson.
Edward Richard Perkins,
vice-president of the New York Life Insurance Company and brother of
George W. Perkins, died on Thursday at his
home at 120 North Arlington street, East Orange, N. J., after an illness
of a year following a breakdown from overwork. During the last few months
he had been suffering from cerebral affection which resulted from his
prostrated condition and prevented him from recognizing even his closest
friends. He leaves a widow, Estelle Anderson Perkins, and a sister, Emily
Perkins, besides his brother. Mr. Perkins was born forty-four years ago in
Chicago, where he was educated in the public schools and where he entered
the insurance business as an office boy in the Chicago branch of the New
York Life. About twelve years ago he became identified with the New York
office and at that time of his retirement, was occupying the position from
which his brother resigned to become a member of the firm of J.P. Morgan &
Co.. Mr. Perkins leaves a gallery of paintings and ivories which he began
early in life to collect and which are valued at more than $100,000.
Robert E. Perkins
died on Sunday of pneumonia in the Colonna apartment house, 148 Eighth
avenue, Brooklyn, NY, in his seventieth year. He was born in Port Byron,
N. Y. He was a civil war veteran and a member of the Twenty-third Regiment
Veteran Association and of the Crescent Athletic Club. He had been
employed in the Bank of America, Manhattan, for forty years and was
recently retired on a pension.
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