Research
Draft on Rev. Sidney Perkins, Pastor of First Congregational Church in
Manchester, Vermont, during the period when Bill Wilson, Ebby Thacher, and
Perkins’s son Roger were attending Burr and Burton Academy. Ebby Thacher
boarded with Rev. Perkins when Ebby was a student at Burr
Dick B.
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[Research by Ken B.]
Rev.
Sidney K. Perkins: Part 2
Sidney
K. Perkins graduated from Amherst College at Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1877.
Sidney
K. Perkins graduated from Andover Theological Seminary at Andover,
Massachusetts in 1880.
Rev.
S. K. Perkins was ordained at South Weymouth, Mass., July 20, 1880.
[The Minnesota Home
Missionary Society was called to order in the chapel of Willis Hall at
Northfield, Oct 15th, 1880 at 10 am:] Owatonna
Conference . . . Chain Lake Centre, Sherburne, Westford, Cedarville, etc., were
served by Bro. Eells till July [1880], when he closed his labors. In
August [1880], Rev. S. K. Perkins and wife came to occupy Sherburne and
Westford. Their work is well begun.
[(p.) 52. Appendices]
Minnesota
Branch of Woman’s Board. . . . Local Conference Committees. . . . Mankato—Mrs.
S. K. Perkins, Sherburne, V. P.
“The
twenty-seventh annual session of the General Congregational Association of
Minnesota, met with Plymouth Church, St. Paul, Wednesday, October 11, 1882, at
7:30 p.m. . . . Thursday Morning . . .
Churches. Ministers.
Sherburn S. K. Perkins
SHERBURNE, (Martin county)--Former pastor, S. K. Perkins,
removed to Plainview; . . .
Minnesota
Home Missionary Society. . . . p. 24. . . . Gone to Other Fields. . . . S. K.
Perkins has become pastor of the self-supporting church at Plainview; . . .]
“The
General Congregational Association of Minnesota met for the Twenty-eighth
Annual Meeting with the Congregational Church of Lake City, on Wednesday,
October 17th, 1883, at 7:00 P. M. . . . Thursday Morning . . .
Churches Ministers
Plainview S. K. Perkins
[October
17-21, 1883:] Minnesota Home Missionary Society . . . Conference Committees. .
. . Winona. Rev. J. W. Bradshaw, Rev. S. K. Perkins, Rev. J. W. Horner.
Officers
of the General Congregational Association of Minnesota, 1884. . . . Scribe:
Rev. S. K. Perkins, Plainview.
Winona
Conference. Annual Meeting: Fourth Tuesday in May, 1885, at Wabasha. Registrar:
Rev. S. K. Perkins, Plainview.
Church Minister
Plainview S. K. Perkins
{Rev.
Sidney K. Perkins, pastor, The Plainview Congregational Church, 1883 to 1885
[“Plainview Village and Township,” pp. 56-68, from History of Wabasha County, Minnesota, comp. by Franklyn Cur___ and
others, (Winona, MN: Higginson Books, 1920)]}
“Winona
Conference: . . . Plainview. Has been without a pastor since the resignation of
Rev. S. K. Perkins, July the first. They are now in search of his successor.
Church Minister Commenced Ordination
Portland,
West [a Congregational Church in Maine] S.
K. Perkins Feb. 14, ’86 July 20, ‘80
The
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the West Church, Portland, was observed Oct. 28,
1887. . . . [T]he pastor, Rev. Sidney K. Perkins. . . . Sidney K. Perkins,
present pastor, installed 1886, Feb. 17.
Portland,
West Church, Organized 1862, September 17.
Sidney
K. Perkins:
Ins.
P. 1886, Feb. 17
Dis.
1891, April 22
p.
West Springfield, Mass, 1893.
[Information
above, beginning with Portland, West Church, Organized . . . is from: Minutes
of the General Conference of the Congregational Churches in Maine, Seventieth
Anniversary, . . . Sept. 22-24, 1896, Vol. 1, No. 2., p. 165]
The Outlook: A
Family Paper.
New Series of the Christian Union, Volume 48, For Week ending 9 December, 1893,
Number 24 (The Outlook Co., Clinton Hall, Astor Place, New York), p. 1087 . . .
Ministerial Personals. Congregational . . . S. K. Perkins, of
Andover, Mass., accepts a call from the First Church of West Springfield.
Sidney
K. Perkins joined the Hampden Association of Ministers on July 10, 1894. (The General Association of the
Congregational Churches of Massachusetts, 1897: Minutes of the Ninety-Fifth
Annual Meeting. Worcester, May 18-20.]
[Minutes
of the General Association of the Congregational Churches of Massachusetts,
1891-1895; Notices for 1895]: West Springfield, Rev. S. K. Perkins.
[**Note:
Roger Conant Perkins, the son of Sidney K. and Jennie T. (Shattuck) Perkins was
born in West Springfield, Mass., Nov. 9, 1895.**]
[WEST SPRINGFIELD. Situated opposite the City of Springfield, in the centre of Hampden County (Hampden County MA Archives History - Businesses .....West Springfield Businesses 1896)]: Churches of West Springfield: . . . Congregational.-First Congregational Church. Meeting House Hill, Rev. S. K. Perkins, pastor.
[Address List of
the Living Alumni of Andover Theological Seminary: Including All Non-Graduates
of the Institution: 1899: Prepared for the Use of the Alumni by the Secretary
of the Alumni Association, p. 24: (Year of Graduation!?): 1880, Rev. Sidney
K. Perkins, West Springfield, Mass.]
Rev. S. K. Perkins of the First Congregational Church at West Springfield,
Mass., has resigned to accept a call to the First Church at York, Me. [Christian Work, Volume 67, November 9,
1899, p. 756]
Manual
for the First Congregational Church of York, Maine - Pastors
Information
also gathered from "A Brief History of First Parish Church, York,
Maine"
http://www.fpyork.info/fpc/pamphletindex.html; accessed
9/15/12
Pastor
Dates
Rev.
Sidney K. Perkins 1899 – 1910
[November
19, 1899, to April 1, 1910]
.
. . close relations with the old municipality of York which the First Parish
(Congregational) possessed, dating its existence back to the year 1662. The
Rev. Sidney K. Perkins told of the Congregational churches of York, and of
their pastors. His paper appears in full in this volume. [“The Churches and
Ministers of the Town of York” by the Rev. Sidney K. Perkins, “a paper read at
the Commemorative Service in the Parish Church on Sunday Evening, Aug. 3, 1902,
by the Rev. Sidney K. Perkins, Pastor.].
p.
120: “. . . [T]he Reverend Sidney K. Perkins, pastor of the First Parish
Church, . . .”
[The
General Conference of the Congregational Churches of Maine]:
Names
of Members. Residences. Ordained. Joined
Asso. Emp’t.
Sidney
K. Perkins York Village 20 July, ’80 9
July, ’00 P.
[**Note:
Roger Conant Perkins “was fitted for college at York (Me.) high school and Burr
and Burton Seminary, Manchester, VT.”—(Rev. Sidney K. Perkins accepted a call
to pastor the Congregational Church in Manchester in the first months of 1910.
Roger Perkins would have been 14 years old at the time of the family’s move
from York, Maine, to Manchester, Vermont]
Manchester, Vt.: Address for Rev. Sidney K. Perkins, listed in the Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly, Volume III, October, 1913, to June, 1914: Lock Box 325,
Manchester, Vt.
Rev. Sidney K.
Perkins, who resigned from his pastorate at Manchester, Vt., last fall [i.e.,
the fall of 1921], has accepted a call to the People's Church of South Ashburnham, Mass. On November 17 he was given a reception
by his charge and cordially welcomed to his new home. He left Manchester with
the regret of the whole community, who showed their attachment by giving him a
farewell reception, at which he was presented with a purse of $1500. [Source: Amherst Graduates’ Quarterly, Vol.
XI—February, 1922—No. 2, “The Classes,” 1877, p. 141]
Sidney K. Perkins
became a member of the Worcester North Association of Ministers [in
Massachusetts] on January 16, 1922, and is listed as the Pastor of the South
Ashburnham (Congregational) Church. [Source: The Massachusetts Congregational Conference, 1924: Minutes of the One
Hundred Twenty-Second Annual Meeting, “Ministerial Standing,” 1924, 59.]
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