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Benjamin T. Perkins, Sr. (Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk)

b. 1818-12-24

Todd County, Kentucky, attorney, circuit court clerk, and county court clerk. Todd County native. Married to Mariah Jane Porter Perkins on May 15, 1842. Father of Francis Marian Perkins, Seymour H. Perkins, Benjamin T. Perkins, Jr., Emmett Perkins, Lucy Perkins, and Lillie Perkins. Studied law with F. E. McLean in Todd County from 1839 to 1840. Admitted to the bar in 1840. County prosecutor for the Todd County Court from 1840 to 1846. Member of the Christian Church. Clerk of the Todd County Court from 1846 to 1870. Clerk of the Todd Circuit Court from 1846 to 1869. Recruited soldiers in Todd County during the Civil War. Delegate to to the National Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois, in 1864. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850 and eight in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 184-185. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 211. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 1, p. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, p. 1. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, District 4, p. 330. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Ancestry, Todd County, 1842. Thomas S. Page, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1860), p. 293. William T. Samuels, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), p. 357. D. Howard Smith, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1869 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, 1869), p. 173.

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Perkins, Benjamin T., Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204215 (November 12, 2026).

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