Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-02-13
GEO. D. PERKINS DEAD
EDITOR OF SIOUX CITY JOURNAL
SUCCUMBS AT 6:15 A. M.
TUESDAY,.

Sioux City.-Geo. D. Perkins, edi-
tor of the Sioux City Journal, died
at St. Joseph's hospital Tuesday
morning, February 3rd, from cardiac
embolism. He would have been "a
years old February 20. Funera serv-
ices were conducted at the family
home at $50 Jackson stree Friday
afternoon, and interment was made
at Floyd cemetery.
Rev. Wallace M. Short, If the First
Congregational church. delivered the
address, and Past Grand Master
Charles c.. Clark, of the Iowa grand
lodge of the Masonic order, partici-
pated in the services. Members of
the Sioux City Typographical union
and of the G.. A. R. marched in the
funeral procession, and the services
at HI cemetery were conducted by
the Masons.
The honorary pail bearers were Sc
lected from among the old friends of
Mr.. Perkins. They We're: John NJ.
Mcdonald, Earl T. Hoyt, w. H. Beck,
E. w. Caldwell, E. c. Peters and f.
P. Heller.
The pail bearers selected from the
Masonic order were: w. D. Irvine,
John R. Carter, L.. L.. Kellogg, R. D.
Kellogg, o. B.. Talley and Judge David
Mould.
The active pail bearers were chosen
from among members of the editorial
staff of the Journal who have been
associated with Mr.. Perkins and the
paper for a long time. They were:
A. F. Allen, Fred P. Davis. Henry
Cody, S. J.. Mccullough, John A.
Coughlan and John w. Carey.
Geo. D. Perkins was born in Or
leans county, New York, Feb. 20, 1910.
His father was a lawyer. On account
of the fathers i'll health the family
moved to Indiana, while the subject
of this sketch was yet a small boy;
NAMED two years and then to Bara-
boo, Wis, where Mr.. Perkins passed
his boyhood.
The father died in 1852, leaving the
mother to look after a family of two
son and two daughters. Henry A.,
the older son entered a printing Of
flee. Geo. D. expected to become a
farmer and hired out to pitch hay at
$40 a month. The agricultural life
failing to appeal to him, he followed
in the footsteps Of his brother, his
first pay as a printer being 81 a week
without board. Before he left Bara-
boo, however, he was earning 81 a
day, the j~ourneyman's wage at that
time. Henry A. sold his interest in
the Baraboo Republic, and they moved
to Iowa in the winter of 1860. In
March ot 1891 they issued the first
number of the Cedar Falls Gazette.
On August IL, 1862. Geo. D. enlisted
in Company B., 31st Iowa infantry.
That same winter he was taken sick
and was confined in Jefferson Bar
racks in Missouri. So serious vas his
illness he was not allowed to go to
the front with his regiment and on
January IL. 1868, was h%onorably dis
charged and taken home by his broth
er to die. The doctors had said he
could not possibly live more than a
few weeks.
The Cedar Falls Gazette passed into
other hands in the summer OF 1866,
and the brothers went to Chicago,
opening a gummed label house, the
first concern of the kind in the United
States, with the exception Of a SMALL
establishment in Ohio, which they alb
sorbed.
Geo. DIS next venture was as agent
for the Northwestern Associated
Press, a news distributing agency
which served papers in Illinois (out-
side of Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska.
Longing still to own his own paper,
Mr.. Perkins began looking around for
q location and decided Upon Sioux