FREDERICK S. PERKINS - Biography

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This biography appears on page 647-648 in History of Racine and Kenosha Counties, Wisconsin...
published by the Western Historical Co.: 1879.

FREDERICK S. PERKINS. farmer P. O. Burlington; born in Trenton, Oneida
Co., N. Y., Dec. 6, 1832; he left there with his parents in 1835; went
to Joliet, Ill.; remained there till March, 1837, and came thence to
Burlington; Origin Perkins, his father, came to Burlington in August,
1836, being one of the oldest settlers; the first house built in this
town was a log-cabin, and was used for a tavern; he built the first
private residence in the town in 1836, which was also a log-cabin, and
was located on the north side of White River, near where the woolen-mill
now stands; he brought his family from Joliet, Ill., in the spring of
1837, by wagon team, and this was the first team of horses that came
from Illinois to this town; they crossed the Fox River when very high,
and thick with floating ice, in a canoe, or Indian "dug-out." He married
in Stonington, Conn., in 1829, Maria Stanton, of that place; have had
two children- Mary and Frederick S.; Mary died in Burlington, in 1845,
and is buried here; his wife died in Trenton, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1833, and
is buried there; he married again in Trenton N. Y., Julia Deyer, and
brought her with him to Joliet Ill.; they had one child, who died in
Joliet. He bought 260 acres of Government land at the land sale in 1837;
then went to California, where he died March 12, 1853; his second wife
died in August, 1858, in Burlington, and is buried here. Frederick S.
now being the only surviving heir, he is in possession of all the land
formerly owned by his father, with barns, etc., and a substantial, stone
residence. He married in Minneapolis, Minn., May 30, 1864, Emily
Wainwright, formerly of Middlebury, Vt. - they have four children -
Frederick W., Robert S., Henry E. and Edward, all living home with their
father; his wife died in Burlington, May 18, 1877, and is buried here.
Mr. Perkins is a professional portrait painter, and the walls of his
residence are adorned with some beautiful specimens of his art; he is
also an archeologist, and the collection of antiquities, now the
property of the Historical Society of the State of Wisconsin, in the
Capitol at Madison, are known as the celebrated Perkins collection.