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refused to call physician. During
the night he became worse and Dir.
Brumbaugh, the family physician,
was called in.
lie pronounced the attack cholera
morbus. The ex-senator passed a
quiet night. No serious alarm was
felt during the day until 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, when the symp-
toms grew much worse. Drs. Bellach
and Sewers were hastily summoned.
Their efforts to afford relief were
futile. He sank rapidly and at 4 clock
passed away.
Hon. Bishop w. Perkins was born in
Rochester, Loraln county. Ohio Octo-
ber IS, 1912. His education was re-
re:ve0 IL the common schools of his
,ative state and in Knox college in
.3alesbure. Ill He spent two years
a Colorado after leaving college, and
n lS6? he returned from that terri
cory and enlisted in Company ID,
Eighty-third Illinois volunteer in
lantry, as a sergeant. lie was after
wards transferred to The Sixteenth
colored infantry, where he served as
adjutant and captain for over two
years. He was mustered out of the
service in 1865. When he left the
ar'~y Mr.. Perkins returned to Illinois
and began the study of law, reading
with Hon. o. c. Gray of ottawa, and
in 1867 was admitted to the bar.
During that year he located at
Pierce town, Ind, where he remained
for two years when he removed to
OswegO, Kan. In the spring of 1869
Mr. Perkins was appointed county
attorney of Labette county and held
the position until his successor was
elected, himself declining the nomin-
alton for the office.
lie was elected probate Judge in the
fall of 1870, and in 1873 was appointed
district Judge for the Eleventh jul
dicial district, and in November of
that year he was elected to the same
office. In 1874 he was reelected and
again in 1878. At the November
election Mr. Perkins was chosen to
represent the Third congressional
district in congress, and also served
the same district in the Fiftieth and
Fifty-first congresses, but was de-
feated in 1890 by b. II. Glover, the
Populist candidate.
In 1892 he was appointed by Cover
nor Humphrey to the United States
senate to fill the position made vacant
ON JIe uedJu Oh OcndJOT WHICH
occurred in December, 1891.
Mr.. Perkins was one of the famous
big four congressman" - Morrill,,
Peters, Perkins and Hanback--elected d
at large from the third district. He
was a potent factor in Kansas politics
and was one of the best posted men in
Kansas upon state and national
issues. Always an intense partisan,
he was nevertheless patriotic,
thoroughly imbued with state pride
and was always ready and eager to do
his utmost for the welfare of the com
monwealth and it's citizens. He had
hosts Of friends throughout the state
and had he lived would have been a
I formidable candidate for the United
States senatorship to succeed Senator
Martin.
Mr. Perkins was a ready speaker
and an able parliame ntarian. While
a member of the house he was often
chosen to fill the chair in the absence
| of Speaker Reed. Since his retire
ment from the senate in March, 1898,
he had been engaged in the practice
of law in Washington, being asso.
| ciated with eX-Assistant Secreta of
the Interior Chandler in the prose GU
tion of Indian depreciation claims be-
fore the interior department.