Perkins, Bishop W
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 18, 1841, in Rochester, Ohio. He enlisted in the union army from Illinois, served until 1866, performing important duties, and rising to the rank of captain and acting adjutantgeneral; and was wounded at Fort Donelson. He returned home when mustered out of service; and in 1869 moved to Oswego, Kas. In 1870 he was elected probate judge, and was re-elected in 1872. In 1873 he was appointed judge of the eleventh judicial district of the state; in November of that year was elected to the same position; and was re-elected in 1874, and again in 1878. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress; was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses. In 1892 he was appointed United States senator to fill a vacancy.
PERKINS, CHARLES CALLAHAN, critic, author, was born March 1, 1823, in Boston, Mass. He was a prominent art patron and critic of Boston; and the author of Raphael and Michael Angelo; Tuscan Sculptors; Italian Sculptors; Historical Handbook of Italian Sculptors; and History of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society. He died Aug. 25, 1886, in Windsor, Vt.