Background
Perkins, Frederic Beecher was born on September 27, 1828 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas Clap and Mary (Beecher) Perkins.
Perkins, Frederic Beecher was born on September 27, 1828 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas Clap and Mary (Beecher) Perkins.
Attended Yale, 1846-1848, Master of Arts (honorary), 1860. Studied law under his father.
Admitted to Connecticut bar, 1851. Editor New York Tribune, 1854-1857. Assistant editor American Journal of Education, 1857-circa 1861.
Librarian Connecticut History Society, 1857-1861. Member editorial staff Galaxy, Independent, Christian Union, all Hartford. Editor Old and New, Boston, 1870-1873.
Secretary Boston Public Library, 1874-1879. Chief librarian San Francisco Public Library, 1880-1887. Associate editor Library Journal, 1877-1880.
Author: Charles Dickens, 1870. The Best Reading, 1872. Check List for American Local History, 1876.
Devil-Puzzlers and Other Studies, 1877. Scrope; or, the Lost Library (novel), 1879.
Member editorial staff Galaxy, Independent, Christian Union, all Hartford.
Married Mary Anne Westcott, May 21, 1857. Married second, Frances (Johnson) Beecher, May 1894.