He was one of a family of ten children, the son of Tracy Knapp and Elisabeth Healy Perkins. Married for fifty-six years with his wife, the former Miss Minnie Newton.
Millard K. Perkins, a life-long resident of South Otselic and a prominent business man, succumbed to a heart attack in the early morn of his 82nd birthday, Saturday, April 2.
Mr. Perkins with his grandson, Robert Perkins, had driven to the farm of Elihu Thompson to fish in the Thompson Brook and as he was crawling under the wire fence, near the barn, life became extinct.
At the age of twenty-one he bought his first stock of fishing tackle and started a jobbing business, travelling with horses and wagon, calling on the retail trade throughout northern New York and the western New England States. This business he followed up to the time of his demise, the auto supplanting the original outfit in the later days. For several years he extended the business to surrounding states, employing salesmen with similar equipment, as the business grew.
In company with the late Frank Cook of Cincinnatus he built the original fish-line factory at South Otselic, which he later sold to the B. F. Gladding Co.
For ten years he was president of the Otselic Valley National Bank which he helped to organize. Always active in business matters, he had many interests is the village and vicinity. He owned for a long time the Perkins block of stores, also several farms, was interested in the breeding of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, and had always led an extremely active life.
His immediate survivors are his widow, Minnie N. Perkins, a son, Robert Newton Perkins; a daughter, Anna M. Perkins; a brother, Paul B. Perkins of South Otselic; a sister,
Myra Chapin of Utica, and three grandchildren.
(Millard's partial obit above. His full obit was published in The DeRuyter Gleaner, DeRuyter, N.Y., Thursday, April 7, 1938, p. 2)
Millard K. Perkins, a life-long resident of South Otselic and a prominent business man, succumbed to a heart attack in the early morn of his 82nd birthday, Saturday, April 2.
Mr. Perkins with his grandson, Robert Perkins, had driven to the farm of Elihu Thompson to fish in the Thompson Brook and as he was crawling under the wire fence, near the barn, life became extinct.
At the age of twenty-one he bought his first stock of fishing tackle and started a jobbing business, travelling with horses and wagon, calling on the retail trade throughout northern New York and the western New England States. This business he followed up to the time of his demise, the auto supplanting the original outfit in the later days. For several years he extended the business to surrounding states, employing salesmen with similar equipment, as the business grew.
In company with the late Frank Cook of Cincinnatus he built the original fish-line factory at South Otselic, which he later sold to the B. F. Gladding Co.
For ten years he was president of the Otselic Valley National Bank which he helped to organize. Always active in business matters, he had many interests is the village and vicinity. He owned for a long time the Perkins block of stores, also several farms, was interested in the breeding of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, and had always led an extremely active life.
His immediate survivors are his widow, Minnie N. Perkins, a son, Robert Newton Perkins; a daughter, Anna M. Perkins; a brother, Paul B. Perkins of South Otselic; a sister,
Myra Chapin of Utica, and three grandchildren.
(Millard's partial obit above. His full obit was published in The DeRuyter Gleaner, DeRuyter, N.Y., Thursday, April 7, 1938, p. 2)
He was one of a family of ten children, the son of Tracy Knapp and Elisabeth Healy Perkins. Married for fifty-six years with his wife, the former Miss Minnie Newton.
Millard K. Perkins, a life-long resident of South Otselic and a prominent business man, succumbed to a heart attack in the early morn of his 82nd birthday, Saturday, April 2.
Mr. Perkins with his grandson, Robert Perkins, had driven to the farm of Elihu Thompson to fish in the Thompson Brook and as he was crawling under the wire fence, near the barn, life became extinct.
At the age of twenty-one he bought his first stock of fishing tackle and started a jobbing business, travelling with horses and wagon, calling on the retail trade throughout northern New York and the western New England States. This business he followed up to the time of his demise, the auto supplanting the original outfit in the later days. For several years he extended the business to surrounding states, employing salesmen with similar equipment, as the business grew.
In company with the late Frank Cook of Cincinnatus he built the original fish-line factory at South Otselic, which he later sold to the B. F. Gladding Co.
For ten years he was president of the Otselic Valley National Bank which he helped to organize. Always active in business matters, he had many interests is the village and vicinity. He owned for a long time the Perkins block of stores, also several farms, was interested in the breeding of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, and had always led an extremely active life.
His immediate survivors are his widow, Minnie N. Perkins, a son, Robert Newton Perkins; a daughter, Anna M. Perkins; a brother, Paul B. Perkins of South Otselic; a sister,
Myra Chapin of Utica, and three grandchildren.
(Millard's partial obit above. His full obit was published in The DeRuyter Gleaner, DeRuyter, N.Y., Thursday, April 7, 1938, p. 2)
Millard K. Perkins, a life-long resident of South Otselic and a prominent business man, succumbed to a heart attack in the early morn of his 82nd birthday, Saturday, April 2.
Mr. Perkins with his grandson, Robert Perkins, had driven to the farm of Elihu Thompson to fish in the Thompson Brook and as he was crawling under the wire fence, near the barn, life became extinct.
At the age of twenty-one he bought his first stock of fishing tackle and started a jobbing business, travelling with horses and wagon, calling on the retail trade throughout northern New York and the western New England States. This business he followed up to the time of his demise, the auto supplanting the original outfit in the later days. For several years he extended the business to surrounding states, employing salesmen with similar equipment, as the business grew.
In company with the late Frank Cook of Cincinnatus he built the original fish-line factory at South Otselic, which he later sold to the B. F. Gladding Co.
For ten years he was president of the Otselic Valley National Bank which he helped to organize. Always active in business matters, he had many interests is the village and vicinity. He owned for a long time the Perkins block of stores, also several farms, was interested in the breeding of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, and had always led an extremely active life.
His immediate survivors are his widow, Minnie N. Perkins, a son, Robert Newton Perkins; a daughter, Anna M. Perkins; a brother, Paul B. Perkins of South Otselic; a sister,
Myra Chapin of Utica, and three grandchildren.
(Millard's partial obit above. His full obit was published in The DeRuyter Gleaner, DeRuyter, N.Y., Thursday, April 7, 1938, p. 2)
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ANNA PERKINS
1882-1967
MINNIE NEWTON
PERKINS
1860-1940
MILLARD K. PERKINS
1856-1938
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