Lapeer-Macomb-Bay County MI Archives Biographies.....Perkins, Benjamin F. 1835 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

BENJAMIN F. PERKINS. A man who for a long series of years has served the people
of his community justly, and with wisdom and discretion in the office of Justice
of the Peace, has not only advanced the business interests of the community but
has been a powerful factor in promoting the peace and in educating the people in
righteousness and equity. Such a career has been that of Mr. Perkins who was
born in the township of Ray, Macomb County, Mich., February 10, 1835. He is the
son of Benjamin L. and Catherine P. (Boyden) Perkins.

  The mother of our subject was a New Yorker by birth and the father was born in
Pennsylvania near the New York line and was a farmer before coming to Michigan.
He came to Troy, Oakland County, in 1833 and entered land in Ray Township,
Macomb County, the following year. This he sold and moved to Metamora Township,
Lapeer County, where he purchased and cleared a farm of one hundred and forty
acres on which he lived until 1862. Our subject at the age of sixteen began
clerking in the general dry-goods store of Mr. H. Griswold, staying with that
gentleman eleven years but being a part of that time in Metamora.

  After severing his connection with Mr. Griswold Benjamin Perkins went to
Thornville and bought a lease in a flouring mill of which he became sole
proprietor. Two years later he sold out to John Morton and then went to Bay City
and engaged in the mercantile business. He had been married at Lapeer, to
Clarissa Hough. This lady was born in Connecticut, April 43, 1835. She is a
daughter of Walter Hough. Our subject was in the mercantile business in Bay City
six years during which time he was twice burnt out, once in July, 1863, and
afterward in 1869. After this last disaster he engaged for two years in the life
insurance business, and then moved to Lapeer in 1872.

  It was in 1878 that Mr. Perkins was elected Justice of the Peace and with the
exception of the years of 1880 and 1882, when he was not living in this city he
has held that office and is now serving the last year of his fourth term. From
the time of Abraham Lincoln's nomination to the Presidential seat Mr. Perkins
has been an earnest Republican and still continues an adherent of that party.
Since 1865 he has been a member of the Regular Baptist Church and his wife is
with him in this connection.

  To Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have been born four children: Mary Grace, who was born
in Thornville, Lapeer County, on the 15th of May, 1863, married Charles Tuttle,
a groceryman of Lapeer; Anna E., who was born in Bay City, August 8, 1866,
married Stephen A. Lockwood, a dry-goods merchant of Lapeer; Harry Perkins,
whose nativity was in Bay City, January 20, 1868, has found employment in his
native home as a book-keeper; and Albert H., born in Lapeer, April 23, 1873, is
a clerk in Bay City.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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