Perkins, Hubbard S., proprietor of brick yard, Pine Island. Born in Madison county, N. Y., in 1811. Married Maranda Edget in 1847. She was born in Yates county, N. Y., in 1818. Came to this county (Goodhue) in the fall of 1856; pre-empted 160 acres of land in Cherry Grove tp., and in 1857, settled with his family, there being but four families in the tp. at that time. Experienced all the hardships of pioneer life. Had $700, purchased a yoke of oxen, and in a short time one of them died, another went the same way, and another, until he lost three yoke, when he traded for horses, which the authorities took from him in the Indian outbreak of 1857. In 1864, his wife died, leaving five children, Harmon A., William S., Sallie E., Ira and Rose E. Lost one, Hiram T. His present wife, Eliza Haggard, was born in Kentucky in 1817. Mr. Hubbard came to this place and commenced his present business in 1875, where he controls a prosperous trade; also owns the farm where he resided. Self and wife are members of Baptist Church, at Zumbrota. (History of Goodhue County, Including a Sketch of the Territory and State of Minnesota, Wood, Alley & Co., Red Wing, Minnesota, Pioneer Press Company, St. Paul, 1878, Page 642)
PERKINS, HUBBARD S., b. in Madison county, N. Y., in 1811; settled in Goodhue county, Minn., in 1856; owned a farm, and after 1875 a brick yard, in Pine Island. [54.] (Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XIV, Minnesota Biographies 1655-1912, Compiled by Warren Upham and Rose Barteau Dunlap, Published by the Society, June, 1912, St. Paul, Minnesota, Page 588)