Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JONATHAN L. PERKINS

Jonathan L. PERKINS, of Little Sioux Township, has been a resident of Harrison County since 1853. He was born in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1834, the son of Erastus and Sarah (HUNTLY) PERKINS, natives of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Jonathan L. was the youngest of a family of eleven children, and his early life was spent in Ohio, the family coming to Jackson County, Iowa, in 1844. He began farming for himself in 1852, in Clayton County, Iowa, and there remained until he came to Harrison County, in 1853.

He was married in 1852, to Miss Mary ALLOWAY, daughter of William and Alice ALLOWAY. She died in 1853, and our subject remained single until 1864, when he married Miss Orphy MEAD, in Little Sioux, the daughter of Thomas and Frances (CLARK) MEAD. By the marriage six children were born--Erastus, Cora, Justine, Ermine, Newton and Sarah still living. Mrs. PERKINS died in 1887.

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