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William Perkins (13 January 1813 Paris, Kentucky – 18 June 1892 Jacksonville, Florida) 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."

Addresses and locations

 * 1840s: Rev. W. Perkins grew up in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky (southwest of Louisville)

40 years in Illinois, Iowa, and Kansas

 * 1854: Presbyterian Church of West Liberty, Ohio??
 * 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


 * 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.


 * 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.
 * 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, 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.; 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.
 * 1908: Rev. W. Perkins lived in Webster, Kansas