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Joseph Perkins

Male 1798 - 1872  (73 years)


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  • Name Joseph Perkins 
    Birth 1 Apr 1798  Bridgewater, Windsor, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 6 Sep 1850  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 52, born VT, physician, mother and sister in house 
    Census 20 Jul 1860  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 62, born VT, physician, sister Patience in house, son Selah next door 
    Census 20 Jul 1870  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 72, born VT, physician 
    Death 6 Jan 1872  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Hillside Cemetery, Castleton, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I9192  Family Tree
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2017 

    Father Joseph Perkins,   b. 17 May 1760, Lyme, New London, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1824, Bridgewater, Windsor, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Mother Patience Denison,   b. 1770, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 19 Feb 1793 
    Family ID F3119  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Gridley,   b. 27 May 1805, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jan 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 25 years) 
    Marriage 13 Aug 1825  Windsor Co, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Selah Gridley Perkins,   b. 12 Nov 1829, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1862, Marshall, Fauquier, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years)
     2. William Cullen Perkins,   b. 1828, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1865, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
     3. Mary Green Perkins,   b. 28 Dec 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F4303  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2015 

    Family 2 Amelia Cooke,   b. 1811   d. 25 Aug 1834, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 23 years) 
    Children 
     1. Maria Goodwin Perkins,   b. 1833, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Sep 1834, Butternet, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
    Family ID F4300  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2015 

    Family 3 Zilpah Higley,   b. 5 Nov 1806, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1836, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 29 years) 
    Marriage 12 May 1835  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Amelia Perkins,   b. 18 Mar 1836, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1883, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)
    Family ID F4305  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2015 

    Family 4 Cynthia Claghorn,   b. 15 Jan 1807   d. 4 Oct 1849, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years) 
    Marriage 25 Oct 1837  Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary Goodwin Perkins,   b. 22 Aug 1838, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Aug 1876, Bridport, Addison, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
     2. Elizabeth Perkins,   b. 9 Jan 1840, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1899, Fair Haven, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
     3. Joseph S Perkins,   b. 1 Sep 1841, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Mar 1868, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years)
     4. Sarah S Perkins,   b. 30 Jun 1843, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1912, Fair Haven, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     5. Frances Adelia Perkins,   b. 23 Mar 1845, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Oct 1846, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     6. Charles Claghorn Perkins,   b. 4 Apr 1847, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jan 1866 (Age 18 years)
    Family ID F4307  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2017 

    Family 5 Iola Denison,   b. 1808, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Feb 1888, Castleton, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years) 
    Family ID F4301  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Jul 2017 

  • Headstones
    Joseph Perkins Gravestone
    Joseph Perkins Gravestone
    JOSEPH PERKINS, M.D. / DIED / Jan. 6, 1872. / Aged 73.

  • Notes 
    • from "Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908" (ancestry.com)
      Joseph Perkins was born in Bridewater VT to Joseph Perkins and Patience Denison.
    • from "A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography, Vol. II" by Dr. Howard A. Kelly, 1912
      Joseph Perkins, son of Joseph and Patience (Dennison) Perkins, was born in Bridgewater, Vermont, April 1, 1798. He studied under Dr. Joseph A. Gallup, of Woodstock, and Dr. Selah Gridley. He received his M.D. in 1821. Immediately after, he began practice in Castleton, and stayed there fifty-one years. Under Dr. Perkins' guiding hand, the Castleton Medical College, where he was professor of materia medica and obstetrics, grew and prospered and during the years 1839 to 1854, there were graduated 854 doctors. In 1857 Dr. Perkins severed his connection with the college and removed his private museum and apparatus to the medical department of the University of Vermont. He was for many years a prominent member of the Vermont State Medical Society and its president in 1855. He died on January 6, 1872, of congestion of the lungs. Joseph Perkins was five times married: To Mary Gridley, daughter of Dr. Selah Gridley, of Castleton; to Amelia Cook; to Zilpah Higley; to Cynthia Claghorn; finally to Mrs. Iola (Denison) Guernsey. His oldest son, Dr. Selah G. Perkins, practiced in Waterford, New York, and later in Castleton from which place he entered the army as captain of the First Vermont Cavalry. He was killed in a skirmish in 1862. The second son of Dr. Perkins was also a physician, Dr. William C. Perkins. He had three children by his first wife; one by the second; one by the third, and six by the fourth.