Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

A. J. PERKINS, physician and surgeon, Plainfield; is a native of New York; he was born in 
Mt. Upton March 2O, 1834. He married Miss Eliza BANGS May 10, 1860; she was born in 
Bennington, Vt.; they had two children, one living, viz. Harry A. He resided in New York 
until 1855; his early days were passed on the farm in summers and in the district schools 
during winters; he then applied himself regularly to school and later engaged in teaching, 
also in reading medicine; in 1864, be graduated in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 
Ohio; he then came to Plainfield and engaged in his profession. Though not a member he has 
been actively identified with the churches of the village, and is persistent in his labors 
for the benefit of the schools of the place.