WILLIAM R. PERKINS
William R. Perkins was born in Bureau county, Illinois, on the 29th of January, 1850, being the son of Elijah and Rachel Perkins. He was married in Illinois, in August, 1869, to Miss Maggie Thompson, a native of that State. In the fall of their marriage, William moved to Wright county, Minnesota, in company with his parents. Both families rented farms and there lived about two years, when they came to Cass county, Iowa, and purchased one hundred acres of land on section 12. William occupies this farm, and is now one of the prosperous and successful farmers of the township. He is raising a fine stock of cattle, and is known as a fine stock breeder. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have five children living...Mary, Alice, John, Ellis and Minnie. William's father now resides in the township on two hundred acres of cultivated land on section 12. There were five children in that family, named...Maggie, wife of H.O. Samson, of this township; David, a resident of Lewis; Emma, wife of Albert Allen, and Frank.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 515.
