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- from "The Leavenworth Times", 17 Mar 1918
HENRY PERKINS, AGED 87 YEARS, DIED YESTERDAY
KANSAS PIONEER PASSES AWAY AT HOME OF SON, H.W. PERKINS
CAPTAIN IN CIVIL WAR
Served Four Years With Indiana Volunteers - Helped to Make Surveys for Early Day Railroads in Two States - Was County Engineer Eighteen Years - Married Fifty-One Years - Was Highly Patriotic and Urged His Grandsons to Volunteer in World War.
Captain Henry C. Perkins, 87 years old, Civil War veteran, Kansas pioneer, and civil engineer with a remarkable record, who served eighteen years as Leavenworth county engineer and two years as engineer of this city, died yesterday morning, 6 o'clock, at the home of his son, Harry A. Perkins, 925 South Broadway. He had been seriously ill for one month. Henry Clay Perkins was born April 16, 1932, at Homer, N.Y. At the age of nineteen he taught academy students at Rockport, Ill. Three years later he assisted in the construction of the famous Erie canal. His father was superintendent of the construction work on this canal.
CIVIL WAR VETERAN
In 1855 he definitely decided to make civil engineering his life calling. He moved to Indiana, here he assisted in the construction of some railroads. At the outbreak of the Civil War he volunteered and served four years as a captain of Indiana volunteer infantry company. In company of his youngest son, H.A. Perkins, at whose home the death occurred, he came to Kansas in 1876 to make a preliminary survey for one of the first railroads to traverse the southern part of this state. Later he located the right-of-way for the Kansas City, Wyandotte and Western. The family located in Leavenworth at that time and he was actively engaged in this profession until 1912 when he retired. He was efficient and his services as city engineer and county engineer always were satisfactory.
MARRIED 51 YEARS
H.C. Perkins married fifty-one years ago. His widow, 81 years old, survives him. There is also one daughter. Mrs. Ed Joslin, Spencer, Ind,, and one other son, Frank Perkins, Cleveland. Both were present when the death occurred. There are ten surviving grandchildren. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and of Custer Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He was exceptionally patriotic and it was through his efforts that two of his grandchildren, sons of H.A. Perkins, also former city engineer, have the distinction of being among the first to enlist in Company E, local units of the One Hundred and thirty-ninth Infantry, now stationed at Camp Doniphan, Fort Sill, Okla. Funeral services will be held at 12:20 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the residence. The Loyal Legion and Custer Post will officiate. Interment will be made in the cemetery at Soldiers' Home.
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1832 - 1918 (85 years)