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Charles Callahan Perkins (1823 - 1886)

Charles Callahan Perkins
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 12 Jun 1855 in Newport, Rhode Island, United Statesmap
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Died at age 63 in Windsor, Vermont, United Statesmap
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Biography

Charles Callahan Perkins (March 1, 1823 – August 25, 1886) was an art critic, author, organizer of cultural activities, and an influential friend of design and of music in Boston.

Charles C. Perkins was born in Boston on March 1, 1823, to James and Eliza Greene (Callahan) Perkins. His father, descended from Edmund Perkins who emigrated to New England in 1650, was a wealthy and philanthropic merchant. His mother was a gracious, cultivated woman. The family was wealthy. He married Florence Davenport Bruen on June 12, 1855, in Newport, Rhode Island.[1]

In 1878 he brought out, with illustrative woodcuts which he had designed, Raphael and Michaelangelo, dedicated to Henry W. Longfellow, and included Longfellow's previously unpublished translations of the sculptor's sonnets. His Historical Handbook of Italian Sculpture appeared in 1883, and in 1886, in French, Ghiberti et son École. At the time of his death he had nearly finished his closely documented History of the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston, Massachusetts, which others completed. He was also critical editor of the Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings, edited by Champlin.

Perkins died on August 25, 1886, in Windsor, Vermont in a carriage accident while he was driving with U.S. Senator William M. Evarts of New York. He was buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.[2]

Sources

  1. "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8KG-N3G : 22 January 2020), Charles Callahan Perkins, 1855.
  2. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/118240622/charles_callahan-perkins: accessed February 27, 2024), memorial page for Charles Callahan Perkins (1 Mar 1823–25 Aug 1886), Find a Grave Memorial ID 118240622, citing Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Jim Stevens (contributor 47249634).




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