This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PERKINS, ACKLEY Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cl.2ADI/960 Message Board Post: THOMAS M. PERKINS, senior member of the firm of Perkins & Son, has been engaged in his present grocery business since March, 1877. He was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1836, a son of William and Henrietta Perkins. He is numbered among the pioneers of Wayne County, Iowa, having come here in 1855 when but nineteen years of age. He made his home with John Dowell till his marriage, both having come to this county together, Mr. Dowell settling in South Fork Township. Mr. Perkins was married in the fall of 1857 to Miss Alice Ackley. They have two children living--Rose and William B. Their eldest son, Frank, died March 7, 1882, at the age of twenty-three years. He was a promising young man, and his death was a deep affliction to his parents. After coming to Wayne County Mr. Perkins followed farming in South Fork Township till he removed to Seymour, Walnut Township, in 1877. The father of our subject came to Wayne County, Iowa, in 1857, his mother having previously died in Ohio. There were five children in the family of William Perkins, of whom our subject is the only one living in Iowa. Biographical And Historical Record Of Wayne And Appanoose Counties Iowa 1886 Inter-State Publishing Company 113 Adams Street Chicago Page 440 - 443