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Perkins, Justin – Perrin, Raymond S

Perkins, Justin

missionary, author, was born March 12, 1805, in West Springfield, Mass. He was a congregational missionary in Persia; and the author of Residence of Eight Years in Persia; and Missionary Life in Persia. He died Dec. 31, 1869, in Chicopee, Mass.

Perkins, Maurice

educator, author, was born March 14, 1836, in New London, Conn. He was a professor of chemistry at Union college; and is the author of a Manual of Qualitative Analysis.

Perkins, Nathan

clergyman, author, was born May 14, 1749, in Lisbon, Conn. He was a minister of West Hartford Congregational church in 1772, where he remained till his death. He published Four Letters on the Anabaptists, a volume of sermons; and thirteen occasional sermons and discourses. He died Jan. 18, 1838, in West Hartford.

Perkins, Simon

pioneer, was born Sept. 17, 1771, in Norwich, Conn. He was the first postmaster in the Western Reserve, at Warren, Ohio, and was intrusted with the arrangement of other postoffices in that region. In 1807, at the request of the government, he established expresses through the Indian country to Detroit. He died Nov. 19, 1844, in Warren, Ohio.

Perkins, William Oscar

musician, composer, was born May 23, 1831, in Stockbridge, Vt. He has taught voice and harmony for many years in New York city, and is the author of a large number of singing books.

Perkins, William Rufus

educator, author, was born in 1847 in Pennsylvania. He was an educator and poet, and professor of history in the Iowa State university in 1887-95. He was the author of two careful historical monographs, History of the Trappist Abbey of New Melleray; and History of the Amana Society; and of Eleusis and Lesser Poems, a striking collection of musical meditative verse. He died in 1895.

Perley, Ira

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 9, 1799, in Boxford, Mass. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature. He died Feb. 26, 1874, in Concord, N. Η.

Perley, Sidney

lawyer, author, was born March 6, 1858, in Boxford, Mass.

He has written and compiled a number of works on a great variety of topics, among which are the following: History of Boxford, Mass.; Goodridge Memorial; Poets of Essex County, Mass.; Historic Stories in New England; Principles of Law of Interest; and Mortuary Law.

Perot, Thomas Morris

merchant, philanthropist, was born May 8, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He bore an active part in founding the Woman's Medical college in Philadelphia, the first institution of the kind in the world, and has been for many years its president.

Perrill, Augustus L

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1845 to 1847.

Perrin, Abner Monroe

soldier, was born in 1829 in Abbeville county, S. C. He entered the confederate army as captain of the fourteenth South Carolina volunteers, and was promoted colonel in 1863, and brigadier-general in 1864, with the command of an Alabama brigade. He died May 11, 1864, in Spottsylvania, Va.

Perrin, Raymond S

author, was born in 18-. He was the author of The Student's Dreams; and The Religion of Philosophy, or the Unification of Knowledge.