Norwich bulletin., 1915-08-09

father. DR.. Austin Freeman Perkins Of
East Lyme. His mother was Mary
isss he w 1ns Born n snd Il hss earlier
years Of education was q student in .
private school conducted by Rev. Pal
mer q. Wightman at East Lyme, and
later at the Connecticut Literary lnati-
tute At Sufheld.
His hrst steps in the science and
were taken, as was 90 often the case
with the best practitioners Of the gem
erations past, in the once and under
the direction OF his father. The prac-
teal training thus obtained he supple
mented with study first at the Yale
Medical school, and then at the Col
lege of Physicians and Surgeons In
New York city. From the latter ia
nous school he graduated in 1850 and
straightway he began practice In the
town OF Montville. Nine years ne
spent there, and in 1853 he settled
down to q widespread and productive
practice in Norwich.
He was married in Montvi1ie on May
29, 1851, to Miss Amelia d. Jerome
daughter Of George d. and Hannah
Jerome OF that town. She survives her
husband with one son, DR.. Charles II.
Perkins of this city and one daughter,
Mrs. Frank W. Browning Of Kitemaug.
There are three grandchildren; Mario
RE Lathrop Browning. wife of Dickson
H. Leavens. is on her way with her
husband to the Yale Mission at Chang
Sha, China: Carleton Perkins Brown
Ing Is mining engineer at Britannia
Beach, British Columbia; and Miss
Henrietta Browning is at Kitemaug.
Two half brothers also are living:
Austin F. Perkins of Norwich and
George A. Perkins of Jacksonville, Fla.
DR.. Perkins was a high member Of
r. ~ ~
Qualities necessary for the good physi-
clan. love of truth, capacity for work,
loyalty to ideals. He was a constant
reader, keenly interested in the enor-
nous advances Of modern medicine,
and carrying the new light into his
practice His library became extern
sive, one of the largest private collec-
tions in the state. and he was often a
consultant in cases which baffled his
fellow-practitioners. At the time of his
death he was consulting physician at
the w. w. Backus hospital.
And to an eye quick in diagnosis and
to mind keen in analysis, he added
the human qualities so richly devel-
cped in the medical man by reason of
the nature of his work and its con-
facts with life and suffering. Under a
covering Of reserve, DIR. Perkins had
a most kindly heart and a warm and
genial nature and to many a frIead,
loss.
He was a member of. the Norwich
Medical Association, Of the New Lon
don County Medical Association, being
its president in 1896. and OF the Con-
necticut Medical Association.
Interested in other things outside q
his field of work, DIR. Perkins was =
Republican and a keen political OBJ
server although he took no active par.
in public life. On March 81. 1878. he
was raised in Somerset lodge, F and A.
NJ, and he became a 32nd degree
rious Norwich bodies, and the Connec-
dcut Consistory. He was an early
member Of the Arcanum club, a char
ter member of the Kitemaug club, and
member of the Norwich club and the
Norwich Chess club. He was a MEM
he had shown his interest IN the mis-
s;onary work that is being done In
China by the Yale Mission by recently
sending 40 volumes of his library for
tue now medical school that Is TO be
instituted at Chang Sha-
AS a loving husband AMI father, as
a snod citizen. as an exemplary fol-
lover of his lofty calling. aal as an
upright man. DR.. Perkins win he miss
ed in tire community where he labored
So long and so faithfully.
Mrs. Maurice Rauner.
Gertrude Plaut Rauner, wife Of
Maurice Rauner, Of New York city
died at the Backus hospital Friday
night after she had been brought there
Friday evening from Block Island or
the steamer. Five days before she had
been taken with pains in the abdomen
while dancing, and after having med
ical attention on the island she was
conveyed to this city. Here the doctors
decided 1t was useless to operate. She
died at IL o'clock.
Mrs. Rauner was born In Norwich
the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. JOSEPH
Plaut, who later moved to New York
where she married Maurice Rauner Il
years ago. She attended the Norwich
Free Academy while she lived IN this
city, and she made a wide circle oi
friends here. She had frequently visit
ed here and never lost touch with heI
former home and her relatives and
friends here. She is survived by he1
husband and one daughter, IL years
of age, four brothers, Louis PIaut OF
Denver, Col, Edward Plaut Of New
York city and Ralph and Seymour
Plaut of Jamaica, L. L. and these three
sisters, Mrs. Emmanuel Stock and
Misses Rosa and Sarah Plaut Of New
York. Among her relatives in Nor
witch is R. c. Plaut, a cousin. Her
sudden death brings grief to a happy
family and home.
The body, accompanied by MI
Rauner and other relatives. was sent to
New York Saturday morning on the
1929 train by Undertakers Cummings
q Ring.
Miss Eliza GunsaIve.
Early Saturday morning, about 3
o'clock occurred the death of Eliza
Gunsalve, the daughter of Eveline and
Isabelle Gunsalve, at the home OF her
parents on Edwards avenue. She was
81 years OF age and had been i'll for
some time. She was q young woman
Of endearing disposition and her
friends viii mourn her loss.
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