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- from "The New Orleans Times-Picayune", 18 Jan 1876 (newspapers.com)
PERKINS - On Monday, January 17, at 1 o'clock, P.M., Major WM. F. PERKINS, aged thirty-six years, a native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of this city since 1865. His funeral will take place This (Tuesday) Evening, a 1 o'clock, from this late residence, Napoleon Avenue, corner Perrier street, Sixth District. His friends and those of his bothers-in-law, Wm. M. and Herbert Evans, and the members of Lin Wood Lodge, are invited to attend. New York and Boston papers please copy.
- from "The New Orleans Republican", 26 Jan 1876 (newspapers.com)
The Late Major Perkins
The Boston Traveller of the eighteenth says: Intelligence announcing the death of Major William F. Perkins, at New Orleans, Louisiana, has just been received. Major Perkins was a son of the late Henry G. Perkins, of this city, who was the first cashier of the Western railroad, and was well known in that position. which he held for many years. Major Perkins, in the early days of the late war, enlisted from Boston, and went out in the Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment. He served during the larger part of his time under McClellan. Near the close of the war he was very severely wounded and was taken up for dead. After the war he removed to New Orleans and there married Miss Evans, and at the time of his death was serving at the New Orleans Customhouse. He was a twin brother of Captain F.W. Perkins, who was on the the staff of General Hooker, and served through the war, dying at New Orleans about two years ago. Both were brothers of Mrs. C.B. Patten , of this city.
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