Person:Henry Perkins (50)

Obituary for Hon. Henry B. Perkins (excerpts)

From: Warren Daily Tribune
Issue: Mon, 3 Mar 1902, pa.3 cols.3 & 4

DEATH OF HON. H.B. PERKINS ON SUNDAY.
Close of a Long and Honored Career - Born in, and a Life Long Resident of Warren.

Sorrow profound depressed Warren citizens of every rank in life Sunday afternoon, when it became known that Hon. Henry B. Perkins had, while under the impulse of melancholia, taken his life. No resident of Warren was more widely known or better liked, for his high character, manifold benevolences and democracy of manner. For the past two years, Mr. Perkins' health had been seriously impaired. He had been about the grounds at his home on Mahoning avenue during the forenoon, and shortly before had been chatting with his gardener, William Nesbitt, expressing gratification that the flood in the Mahoning river was receding without causing serious injury. It was about one o'clock when members of the family went to the office adjoining the residence to summon Mr. Perkins to dinner, and discovered his lifeless body hanging in an upper room. Mr. Perkins rarely stepped out unless accompanied by a member of the household, and had been absent but a few minutes.

Perkins Mansion now Warren City Hall

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Upton, Harriet Taylor. A twentieth century history of Trumbull County, Ohio: a narrative account of its historical progress, its people, and its principal interests. (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1909)
   Vol II, p.3-6.

   Henry Bishop Perkins, the youngest son of General Simon Perkins, was born at Warren, Ohio, March 19, 1824....
   ..and when he died, March 2, 1902, there was a vacancy in the community that has never been filled.

2. ↑ Trumbull County (Ohio). Probate Judge. Death records, 1867-1908. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
   Vol. 3 p.211 & BH* p.53.

   Name: PERKINS, Henry B.
   Married
   DOD: Mar 2 1902
   Age: 77, male
   POD: Warren
   POB: Warren Twp.
   Occ.: banker
   COD: suicide
   * BH = Board of Health

3. ↑ Henry Perkins' residence on Mahoning Ave. is now the Warren City Hall housing the mayor and city officials. His extensive estate abutting the east side of the Mahoning River is now Perkins Park. My great-grandfather, Alexander Batie Kilpatrick was for many years, a caretaker/groundskeeper for the Perkins estate.