Frank B. Perkins, M. D. Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
From: Patricia Cooper - pcooper@peaknet.net

Surname: PERKINS
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1185

  FRANK B. PERKINS, M. D., a successful physician of Derry, N. H.,
was born in Grafton, N. H., April 25, 1856, a son of Orrin H. and 
Hannah ( Currier) Perkins. His parents were both natives of Merrimack 
Cotmty , this state, where the father followed farming until his death 
in 1912. He had been preceded to the grave by his wife. They were 
worthy people, favorable types of the New England stock. 

Page 1186

  Frank B. Perkins was reared on the farm and acquired his elementary
education in the schools of his native county. Having resolved on 
entering the medical profession, he found it necessary to teach school 
at intervals in order to obtain the funds requisite to secure a medical 
education, and to better prepare himself, he became a student at Colby 
Academy, New London, N. H. He began the study of medicine in 1874 with 
Dr. J. P. Elkins of Wilmot, N. H. In 1875 he attended a course of 
lectures at Dartmouth Medical College, taking a second course at the 
same institution in 1876.  He was graduated in June, 1877, and in the 
following year began the practice of his profession at Grantham, 
Sullivan county, N. H., where he remained four years. He then located 
in Londonderry, from which place in 1894 he came to Derry, where he has 
since remained. He has built up a large practice and has made many 
friends here, being now recognized as one of the prominent and 
substantial citizens of the town. He is a member of the New Hampshire
State Medical Society, and has served as a member of the council of 
that body. Fraternally he is connected with King Solomon's Lodge, 
NO.14, A. F. & A. M., of New London; Rockmgham Lodge, No.27, K. P., of 
Derry, and the Improved Order of Red Men of Manchester, N. H. He has 
served as surgeon of the uniformed rank of the First Regiment, N. H. 
Knights of pythias, as medical examiner of Deerfield Lodge, NO.13, A. 
0. U. W., of Derry Depot; also as assistant surgeon of the First 
Regiment N. H. N. G., with the rank of captain. Dr. Perkins married 
Miss Emma J. Flanders, of Danbury, N. H., and has one son, Harry M. The 
family move in, the best society of Derry , the doctor being well known 
and highly esteemed throughout the county.

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