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Gustavus Richard Perkins

Male 1896 - 1974  (77 years)


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  • Name Gustavus Richard Perkins 
    Birth 1 Nov 1896  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 13 Jun 1900  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 3, born Mar 1896 in CT, living with parents 
    Census 21 Apr 1910  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 13, born CT, living with parents 
    Census 3 Jan 1920  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 23, born CT, production engineer at tool factory, living with mother 
    WW2 Reg Card 1942  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 45, born 1 Nov 1896 in Hartford CT, employed by Hartford Board of Education, NOK Ruth S Perkins (wife) 
    Death 24 Mar 1974  Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I17336  Family Tree
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2017 

    Father Lyman Burnham Perkins,   b. 23 Jan 1859, Boston, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 May 1918, Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Carroll Young,   b. 10 Sep 1858, Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Aug 1935, Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Marriage 1886 
    Family ID F6685  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ruth Helen Smith,   b. 23 Apr 1898, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 May 1975, Hartford, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage 05 Aug 1922 
    Children 
     1. Barbara Burnham Perkins,   b. 2 Jan 1924, Windsor, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Aug 2009, Russellville, Pope, AR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
     2. Douglas Smith Perkins,   b. 11 Mar 1926, Windsor, Hartford, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1992, Clinton, Middlesex, CT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F6686  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2017 

  • Notes 
    • from "The Hartford Courant", 25 Mar 1974 (newspapers.com)
      G.R. Perkins, 76, Is Dead; Taught At High School
      G. Richard Perkins, 76, of 121 Morningside St. West, who taught at Hartford Public High School 34 years, died Sunday at home. Born in Hartford, he lived in the Hartford area most o his life. He was a 1916 graduate of Hartford Public High School and a 1920 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Trinity College. He developed and introduced mechanical drawing at Meriden High School in 1928 and taught at Hartford Public High School 34 years before retiring in 1965. He was a member of Asylum Hill Congregational Church and a 50-year member of St. John's Lodge 4, AF & AM. He leaves a wife, Mrs. Ruth Smith Perkins; a son, Douglas S. Perkins of Clinton; a daughter, Mrs. Edwin D. Carson of Russellville, Ark., and three grandsons. The funeral is Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Gross Memorial Chapel of Asylum Hill Congregational Church, with the Rev. Walter D. Wagoner officiating. Burial will be in Cedar hill Cemetery. There are no calling hours. Memorial donations may be made to the Heart association. The Newkird and Whitney Funeral home, 776 Farmington Ave., West Hartford, has charge of arrangements.