PLINY M. PERKINS - Biography

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


  PLINY M. PERKINS, farmer; P. O. Burlington; born in Oneida Co., N. Y.,
  Jan. 24, 1812; he went to Joliet, Ill., in 1834, at the age of 22,
  accomplishing the entire journey from Utica, N. Y., on horseback; he
  remained in Joliet three years, and in November, 1838, came to
  Burlington, and bought one half-section claim of Government land from
  Moses Smith, surrounding the village of Burlington; when he first came
  to Burlington he built a saw-mill and a frame residence in which he
  lived two years; and in 1840, be built the first large frame residence
  in this town as a private dwelling; it is two stories high, located on
  the old Burlington and Geneva road, before the village was laid out.
  He married in Burlington, in 1846, Ellen A. Conkey, a resident of York
  State; they have six children living- James, Emily, Edward, Mary,
  Frank and Lucius. Edward married Carrie Benson, and resides in
  Burlington; Mary married Fred E. Wells, and resides in Burlington; he
  built the first grist-mill in the town, which he afterward enlarged -
  and in 1864, and again in 1874, it was destroyed by fire, and was
  rebuilt in 1875. Mr. P. Perkins shipped the first flour from Wisconsin
  ever sent to New York.