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William Perkins (13 January 1813 Paris, Kentucky – 18 June 1892 Jacksonville, Florida)^[1] was a lawyer, Presbyterian minister, and publisher of the Wichita Vidette and The Southern Household, a short-lived Nashville newspaper.

Published facts

Perkins had been a farmer in Bourbon County, Kentucky, until 1828.

"W.H. Perkins (died around 1872) was a lawyer and minister. In law, he had been associated with Lincoln, Douglas, Browning, Baker, Logan, and Dickey. In politics, he was friends with Trumbull (Lyman Trumbull?), Schurz (Carl Schurz?), Sumner, and Dr. Greeley (Horace Greeley?).

Practitioner at the bar with Lincoln, Douglas, and Trumbull

Perkins and the Presbytery

Perkins may have been an exponent of the so-called "Old-School Presbyterian Church."^[2]^[3]

Addresses and locations

1840s: Rev. W. Perkins grew up in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (southwest of Louisville)^[4]

40 years in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas

1854: Presbyterian Church of West Liberty, Ohio??^[5]
1855: Post office address changed from Lebanon, Ohio, to Troy, Ohio
1860: Presbyterian minister in Storrs Township, Hamilton County, Ohio; his son, William Wirt Perkins, was a school teacher in Storrs
1870: Attorny-at-Law in Junction City, Kansas, and Doyle, Marion County, Kansas
1871: Rev. W. Perkins organized a Presbyterian church in Arkansas City, Kansas^[6]

1871: Rev. W. Perkins, on February 1, 1871, preached a sermon at Binkley Bros. (Marcus Lafayette "Lafe" Binkley; 1842–1917) dug-out cabin at Big Cottonwood ford," near where the Ninnescah empties into the Arkansas River, in what is now Oxford. That date has been chronicled as the first preaching in Sumner County.^[7]

1872: Rev. W. Perkins began doing missionary work in Sumner County, Kansas
1872: Rev. W. Perkins lost T.H. Mason in the Republican primaries in Wellington for County Superintendent.^[8]
1874: Rev. W. Perkins lived in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, where he grew up.
1875: Rev. W. Perkins, in 1875, became editor of a weekly Nashville newspaper, the Southern Household,^[9] first published January 1875 by Ligon & Co. (W.H.F. Ligon; né William Henry Foster Ligon; 1827–1911) and was devoted to agriculture, education, and temperance. It was was also the official organ of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee, I.O.G.T.; OCLC 1013426901 Ligon was a member of the Sons of Temperance, which in 1867, became a sister organization to the Templars
1875: Rev. W. Perkins, in April 1875, became a member of the Nashville Presbytery. He basically transferred his membership from Kansas.^[10]
1908: Rev. W. Perkins lived in Webster, Kansas^[11]

References

^ Genealogy of the Hannum Family: Descended from John and Margery Hannum, Settlers in Chester County, Pennsylvania
With brief notices of other families allied with the name and abstracts of early wills
Compiled by Curtis Hoopes Hannum (1850–1924) (originally published: West Chester, Pa. : Horace F. Temple), Higginson Book Company (1911); OCLC 987941747, 1048534261, 30724880
^ "Sidney Presbytery and Rev. William Perkins," by Rev. Joseph Gordon, The Life and Writings of Rev. Joseph Gordon, written and compiled by a committee of The Free Presbyterian Snyod (1860), pps. 212–218; OCLC 990504428, 1048334747, 982175866
The article is a rebuttal to statements by Perkins on the Sidney Presbytery published in the the Presbyterian of the West.
^ "Slavery," The publisher of the Presbyterian of the West; Frederick Douglass Paper, April 29, 1852; OCLC 5619975843
^ "The Great West and Especially Kansas," Sumner County Press, October 8, 1874, p. 2, col. 6 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/382859635)
^ History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, Index Printing and Publishing Company, (Bellefontaine, Ohio) (1900)
^ "Twenty Years Ago," Oxford Weekly Press, February 15, 1891, p. 2 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/80742047)
^ (no article title) Sumner County Press, April 21, 1881, p. 3, col. 3 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/366784716)
^ Oxford Weekly Press, November 14, 1872 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/381966178)
^ "State Items" (col. 5, middle), The Commonwealth (Topeka, F.P. Baker, editor), No. 316, May 27, 1875, p. 1 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/367312584)
^ "Admitted to the Presbytery," The Tennessean, April 17, 1875, p. 4 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/122625075)
^ "About People," Abilene Daily Reflector, October 12, 1908, p. 3 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/105653101)

[Hanum-genealogy_1911-1] Genealogy of the Hannum Family: Descended from John and Margery Hannum, Settlers in Chester County, Pennsylvania
With brief notices of other families allied with the name and abstracts of early wills
Compiled by Curtis Hoopes Hannum (1850–1924) (originally published: West Chester, Pa. : Horace F. Temple), Higginson Book Company (1911); OCLC 987941747, 1048534261, 30724880

[Gordon_1860-2] "Sidney Presbytery and Rev. William Perkins," by Rev. Joseph Gordon, The Life and Writings of Rev. Joseph Gordon, written and compiled by a committee of The Free Presbyterian Snyod (1860), pps. 212–218; OCLC 990504428, 1048334747, 982175866
The article is a rebuttal to statements by Perkins on the Sidney Presbytery published in the the Presbyterian of the West.

[Slavery-3] "Slavery," The publisher of the Presbyterian of the West; Frederick Douglass Paper, April 29, 1852; OCLC 5619975843

[Sumner-County-Press_1874_Oct_8-4] "The Great West and Especially Kansas," Sumner County Press, October 8, 1874, p. 2, col. 6 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/382859635)

[Index_1900-5] History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, Index Printing and Publishing Company, (Bellefontaine, Ohio) (1900)

[Weekly_Republican-Traveler_1891_Feb_5-6] "Twenty Years Ago," Oxford Weekly Press, February 15, 1891, p. 2 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/80742047)

[Sumner-County-Press_1881_Apr_21-7] (no article title) Sumner County Press, April 21, 1881, p. 3, col. 3 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/366784716)

[Oxford-Press_1872_Nov_14-8] Oxford Weekly Press, November 14, 1872 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/381966178)

[Topeka-Commonwealth_1875_May_27-9] "State Items" (col. 5, middle), The Commonwealth (Topeka, F.P. Baker, editor), No. 316, May 27, 1875, p. 1 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/367312584)

[Tennessean_1875_Apr_17-10] "Admitted to the Presbytery," The Tennessean, April 17, 1875, p. 4 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/122625075)

[Abilene-Reflector_1908_Oct_12-11] "About People," Abilene Daily Reflector, October 12, 1908, p. 3 (accessible via Newspapers.com at www.newspapers.com/image/105653101)

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