Joseph Perkins

1798 - 1872  (73 years)

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

  
  

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

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Gridley,   b. 27 May 1805, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 23 Jan 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 25 years)
  Marriage	13 Aug 1825	Windsor Co, VT
  Children	+ 1. Selah Gridley Perkins,   b. 12 Nov 1829, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 22 Sep 1862, Marshall, Fauquier, VA (Age 32 years)   2. William Cullen Perkins,   b. 1828, Vermont d. 11 Mar 1865, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 37 years)   3. Mary Green Perkins,   b. 28 Dec 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 31 Dec 1831, Castleton, Rutland, VT (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 (Age 23 years)
  Children	1. Maria Goodwin Perkins,   b. 1833, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 9 Sep 1834, Butternet, Rutland, VT (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 d. 25 Mar 1836, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 29 years)
  Marriage	12 May 1835	Castleton, Rutland, VT
  Children	1. Mary Amelia Perkins,   b. 18 Mar 1836, Vermont d. 4 Mar 1883, Castleton, Rutland, VT (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 (Age 42 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1837	Castleton, Rutland, VT
  Children	1. Mary Goodwin Perkins,   b. 22 Aug 1838, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 30 Aug 1876, Bridport, Addison, VT (Age 38 years)   2. Elizabeth Perkins,   b. 9 Jan 1840, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 19 Nov 1899, Fair Haven, Rutland, VT (Age 59 years)   3. Joseph S Perkins,   b. 1 Sep 1841, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 10 Mar 1868, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 26 years)   4. Sarah S Perkins,   b. 30 Jun 1843, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 12 Dec 1912, Fair Haven, Rutland, VT (Age 69 years)   5. Frances Adelia Perkins,   b. 23 Mar 1845, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 4 Oct 1846, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 1 year)   6. Charles Claghorn Perkins,   b. 4 Apr 1847, Castleton, Rutland, VT d. 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 d. 17 Feb 1888, Castleton, Rutland, VT (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F4301	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jul 2017

  
  

• Headstones

  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.