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Frederic Beecher Perkins was an American editor, author and librarian.
Background
He was born on September 27, 1828 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, son of Thomas Clap Perkins and Mary Foote (Beecher) Perkins.
On his father's side he was a descendant of John Perkins who emigrated to Boston in 1631 and settled in Ipswich in 1633; his maternal grandfather was the distinguished theologian, Lyman Beecher.
Education
Frederic entered Yale with the class of 1850, but left college in the autumn of 1848 and began the study of law in his father's office in Hartford. He did not return to college but in 1860 Yale conferred on him the degree of master of arts. Later he studied law.
Career
During 1849 and 1850 he taught school in New York City and Newark, New Jersey. He was admitted to the bar in Hartford in 1851, but seems to have practised little, if any. He taught school, did editorial work in Hartford, and from 1854 to 1857 was one of the editors of the New York Tribune.
Returning to Hartford, he became assistant editor of Barnard's American Journal of Education, and from 1857 to 1861 was librarian of the Connecticut Historical Society. For more than a decade thereafter he steadily engaged in literary and editorial work. He was editor of the early volumes of the Galaxy, was on the staff of the Independent, assisted his uncle, Henry Ward Beecher, in editing the Christian Union, and from 1870 to 1873 helped his brother-in-law, Edward Everett Hale, edit the magazine Old and New.
In May 1874 he became assistant in the Boston Public Library, working as bibliographer and special cataloguer there until December 1879. In the summer of the following year he became chief librarian of the San Francisco Public Library, holding that position until November 1887. For seven years thereafter he was engaged in editorial work in San Francisco, returning East in 1894.
He died five years later in Morristown, New Jersey, after a lingering illness.
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Personality
Perkins had an encyclopedic mind. He had a roving disposition, changed positions often, was restless if long in a place, and dissipated his undoubtedly brilliant mentality by not concentrating on one particular vocation. He was tall, straight, imposing looking, outspoken, proud, sternly honest, and a hard worker.
Quotes from others about the person
Edward Everett Hale once said that "I had never asked him a question without being told the answer or where the answer was to be found. "
Connections
He was married twice; first, on May 21, 1857, to Mary Anne, daughter of Henry and Clarissa (Perkins) Westcott of Providence; she died in 1893 and in May 1894, he married Frances, daughter of Samuel C. Johnson of Guilford, Connecticut, and widow of his uncle, the Rev. James C. Beecher. By his first wife he had two sons and two daughters.