Perkins, Orson
singer, composer, was born Dec. 17, 1802, in Hartland, Vt.
He was a successful singing class teacher for forty years, and a conspicuous chorister; and also a composer of church music. He died April 17, 1882, in Taftsville, Vt.
PERKINS, SAMUEL. lawyer, author, was born in 1767 in New Lisbon, Conn.
He was a lawyer of Windham, Conn.; and the author of History of the Late War between the United States and Great Britain (1825); General Jackson's Conduct in the Seminole War; and Historical Sketches of the United States. He died in September, 1850, in Windham, Conn.
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