New-York tribune., 1885-07-05
LONG-LIVED PEOPLE.

FEATURES OF CLASSIFIED RECORD or TEN THoU.
SAND CESTESARIANs.
fYRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT oP TRIBUSI.l
SYRACUSE, July 2.-Joseph Z. Perkins,
newsdealei Of this city Is about to publish book
titled The Encyclopedias OF Human Longerity" which
is the result of thir.y-cight years OF investigation
on his part. Tie took will contain authentic
record OF a large number OF people, men and
woiner, who have attained the age of ono
hundred years The only exception to this is
the case OF a man who diea at age of nnefy-nns
years and three hundred and xfyfo1r days. and whom
Mr. Perkins regards as virtually o centena1an. Tie
book viii represent of labor and
search and Its author believes that may be relied
accurate in every Instance
-Ihage,' said Mr.. Perkins. IN speaking OF bis book
more than 10000 instances Of people who have lived
one hundred years and These have beea
gathered from every part OF the globe. This country
leads longevity and Connecticut the front among
the United States. In that State have gathered
statistics in regard to than G000 persons who
than eighty years OF aga. ard OF this number
twenty beyond the century limit Al regards sex
he iOrity OF these 10000 centensrians
for this by the fact that cy Lead less irregular
lives than men, instances OF fifty old maids who
como M to my century standard and only twelve
bachelors As regards occuI alton find that sailors
soldiers and farmers the longest lived Among the
Professions have the instances OF 100 ministers who
lived to hundred years and moro while could find
came up to the standard find no among my
10000 OF q newspaper man who has lived to be ono
hundred years old. Newspaper men do so much brain
work that trey die young"
Coming 10 special instances, Mr.. Perkins added:
Among the Oldest people in the Cntei States wero
Flora Thompson. Iecress Of Nashua, n. q, who died
al the age OF hundred and hfty years; Betsy
Frantnam, native OF Germany, who died IN Tennessee
tho OF hundred and fifty four years and sins,
slave who died Virginia, hundred and eighty
old have the Of ten persons who lived in safety
for hundred and were then burned to DEATH
In Ononaga County I have the sketches Of fitty
centenarlans Among them is the Rev. Daniel waIdo,
who died In 1854 at the age Of nearly hundred ani
two years. For than sixty years he was clergy
In the Presbyterian Church, and tie anniversary
OF HI hundredth birthday he preached sermon in
the First Pre'IyeTaa & GTcn oi Syrss1s Ias ls sax
and have Their % pho,oSraphs Then there was John
wife when he was oas hnndred and six years Of aud
she only sixteen He di al the Of hundred and
renewed by va dark growth Of hair several new new teeth
had also made their appearance. and few hoars before
pounds OF bread, aud drank plat o. wine. Nicho,s
Sehathcowski. OF POsen. was an'sher Old fellow He
IiiI that be was Que hundred and nty years Of age
and that his father whose age at the time Of his death
oddities be found in my book will be the photesrph Of
one Years lie had Ia children. srandohiidren ard
grandchildren and ouved them ALL Then there
was Margaret McDowal. OF Edinburgh. who died at tho
age hundred and six She married and survived
thirteen husbands. John Royin ard hts wife, OF
Hungary lived together and wife for las ycare.
lie was hundred and sstyfor and she hundred
and seventytwo years at the time they died. ana th-ir
youngest ono hundred and sixteen years old
Whea tue parents diel.
Thea there il the Of q who married sixteen
and had children. This Is Offset By that 81
another cenenaran who had forty children. John
Rya exchange broker Of Italy, lived to the OF ono
hundred and years and had child born TO him
after he WIS hundred years Old Bctz, sioux
squaw. who died little while a:o. lived for more than
hundred years She had been the wife In turn of
army officer Indian chiei border highwayulan and
Methodist minister. william Ward. OF Westcaeser
County, died in l77s at the OF one hundred aud
seven. lie was mem2er OF the Ward family who we're
among the earliest settlers In Westchester Comfy aui
the particulars OF his life aud death IN the
New-York papers of the time His brother john
MAGISTRATE and attended court in white Plains late
1873. william Ward. member of tits family. carriec
on business banker In 1888 at No. SO Broadway,
SewYork. Another queer incident is that OF q ccn,e.
marian who married four times ami had dangLtot
ly each wife These daughters married. ami eoch OF them
lad fourteen children. Then there who went
over the century line and had twenty-five ohlirc1.
HIS first boy and girls and boys after that In
regular rotation. There was person known Eliza
beth Page. who lived in London and died ~ the of
hun tired and eight years This person hal acted
midwife and supposed 70 be woman After death,
however, IL discovered that thc supposed woman
was The book Will contain 800 illustrations"