Perkins, Eliza B
educator, minister, was born May 17, 1849, in Indiana. For many years she was engaged in educational work. She subsequently entered the ministry, and was the first woman of the congregational church ordained in Nebraska. Her whole time is now devoted to ministerial work, and she fills with distinction a pastorate in Hastings, Neb.
PERKINS, MRS. ELMIRA [JOHN- SON], missionary, poet, was born in 1814 in Maine. She was a missionary among the Indians in Oregon. Her later life was passed in Boston. She was the author of Harp of the Willows, a volume of verse.
She died in 1896.