BIO: J. Turner PERKINS, M.D., York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 39

J. TURNER PERKINS, M.D., a native of Prince George County, Md., was born in 
1854.  He is of English and Scotch ancestry, and a son of James T. and Susan M. 
(Travers) Perkins.  His father is a large planter and a resident of Maryland.  
Dr. Perkins received superior educational advantages, and was graduated from the 
Maryland Agricultural College, A. B. Ph. D.  In 1874 he commenced his medical 
studies at Baltimore, having for his preceptor Prof. Nathan R. Smith.  He was 
graduated from the University of Maryland in 1877, as M.D., and for one year was 
an assistant to his preceptor.  He located in York in 1878, where he has been in 
constant practice since, and has achieved a reputation as one of the leading 
physicians and surgeons of York County.  Dr. Perkins has taken three special 
courses in surgery at Baltimore, and has been surgeon in the Baltimore Marine 
Hospital and of the city almshouse.  He is a member of the York County Medical 
Association, of which he has been vice-president, and is a Royal Arcanum Mason.  
In 1883 Dr. Perkins was married to Miss Nora Salmon, daughter of Maj.-Gen. 
George Paris Salmon, of the English Army, a native of Scotland.