Horatio Nelson Perkins (1808 - 1883)

Born 8 Feb 1808 in Kennebunk, York, Maine, United States

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Died 3 Jul 1883 at age 75 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Horatio Nelson Perkins, of Melrose, Massachusetts, a Resident Member from 1872, was born in Kennebunkport, Maine, February 8, 1808, and died in Boston, July 3, 1883. He was descended from John1 Perkins, of Ipswich, Massachu setts, through Deacon Thomas2, Elisha", Thomas4, Eliphalet5, and Eliphalet" Perkins, his father, who married Elizabeth Stone, of Kennebunkport. He was educated at the common school of his native town, at Bradford Academy, Massachusetts, and at Saco Academy, Maine, and was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1828. He studied law in the office of Judge Ether Shepley, of Maine, and in the Cambridge Law School. He practised law first in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and afterward in Boston. He did not continue long in this practice. Inheriting con siderable property from his father, his time was afterwards sufficiently occupied in the care of his estate. He contributed a valuable article to the Register on the genealogy of the Perkins Family. He was never married.

Sources

• https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Memorial_Biographies_of_New_England_Hist-vol-viii_1907.pdf