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PERKINS, WILLIAM W. (1827-1896)

PERKINS, WILLIAM W., Methodist minister, Miramichi circuit, 1862-65; b. New Brunswick, c1827; m. 1860, Sarah Elizabeth Heartz, of Charlottetown; d. El Paso County, Colorado, Jul 1896.

William W. Perkins was admitted to the Methodist ministry on trial in 1856 and was ordained in 1860. He was based at Bathurst before being assigned to Chatham in 1862 as superintendent of the Miramichi circuit. He had as assistants, for different periods during his three-year term, his brother-in-law William H. Heartz, and Charles B. Pitblado, both of whom were probationers. Pitblado played a prominent part in a great Methodist revival which was conducted on the Miramichi in 1862 and was very popular with the members of the Newcastle church.

When Perkins left the Miramichi in 1865 he went to Yarmouth, N.S. He later served briefly at other locations in the Maritimes, but he resigned from the ministry in 1869, citing health reasons, and moved to the United States. In 1880, he was a farmer and stock grower in El Paso County, Colorado. His grave is in Evergreen Cemetery, in Colorado Springs. He and his wife, Sarah E. Heartz (who survived him by nearly four decades), raised four sons.

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[m] Provincial Wesleyan 3 Oct 1860 [d] Evergreen Cemetery records / Cornish; Ganong Collection (scrapbook #5, re. Methodism)


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