Henry Whipple Perkins was born June 2, 1834, in Springfield, Vt., spent his last preparatory year at Kimball Union Academy, taught school two or more winters while in College, .and after graduation taught in 1855 at Frankfort, Ohio. In 1856 he removed to Muscatine, lowa, where he read law; was admitted to the bar in 1858, practiced in Wapello and Muscatine until 1864, when be became judge of the county court, in which capacity he served two years, and in 1870 removed to Chicago, where he continued the practice of his profession until his decease, August 3, 1912. He was married November 7, 1861, to Bina S. Trimble of Wapello, who survives him, but the issue of the marriage, three children, died in infancy.
Out of the fifty-two of the class who were graduated from the College proper in 1855, only four now survive.
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