Perkins, Alfred Elijah, 1809-1834.

Alfred Elijah Perkins was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on April 5, 1809. He was a member of the Yale College Class of 1830. After graduation, he pursued medical studies in Boston and at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his M.D. degree in 1833. Although coping with health problems, Perkins traveled to the South, then to Madeira and the West Indies. He returned home in the summer of 1834 and died on October 29 of that year.

From the description of Alfred Elijah Perkins papers, 1826-1833 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702169325

Alfred Elijah Perkins was born in Norwich, Connecticut, on April 5, 1809. He was a member of the Yale College Class of 1830. After graduation, he pursued medical studies in Boston and at the University of Pennsylvania, earning his M.D. degree in 1833. Although coping with health problems, Perkins traveled to the South, then to Madeira and the West Indies. He returned home in the summer of 1834 and died on October 29 of that year.

Alfred Elijah Perkins, son of Major Joseph and Mary (Watkinson) Perkins, of Norwich, Connecticut, was born on April 5, 1809. A sister married the Hon. John A. Rockwell (Yale 1822).

He attended three courses of medical lectures, the first in Boston, and the others at the University of Pennsylvania. At the close of the last course, as a result of his strenuous application in preparation for his examinations, he was quite suddenly and severely attacked with pulmonary consumption. He was able to secure in March, 1833, the degree of M.D., and spent the next six months in the South. In September he started for Madeira, going thence to the West Indies, and returning home in the summer of 1834 by way of New Orleans and the Mississippi. He died in Norwich on October 29, in his 26thyear. He was never married.

By his will he left $10,000 to the Yale Library for the purchase of books; so large a sum had not before been given at one time by any individual to the College.

(Taken from Biographical Notices of Yale College Graduates, 1816-1884, p. 213).

From the guide to the Alfred Elijah Perkins papers, 1826/1833, (Manuscripts and Archives)