Elijah Perkins
- Born: 3 May 1810, Unity, Sullivan County, New Hampshire
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Perkins, Elijah, Lincoln twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset;born in Sullivan
county, New Hampshire, May 30, 1810; he emigrated to Ohio when ayoung man,
and was engaged in teaching school for several years; he came tothis State in 1848,
and to this county in 1849, and settled on the land where he nowresides, and made
the greater part of the improvements; he owns 207 acres of land,on which he has a
valuable sugar maple grove, affording all the sugar and syrupthey wish for home
use; he married Miss Julia A. Ansley in February, 1850; she wasborn in
Pennsylvania, and died in December, 1867; he afterward marriedMary A. Lukecart
in 1869; she was born in Illinois; has one son by firstmarriage: Wesley J. C.; lost
one daughter: Clara J., aged twelve years.
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