author

Frank H. Perkins

b. 1854

Best known for a compact, vivid guide to Plymouth’s Old Burial Hill, this late-19th-century writer turned local history and epitaphs into something surprisingly readable. His work has remained in circulation because it preserves names, places, and memorial details that matter to genealogists and New England history readers.

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Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts $b its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs

Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts $b its history, its famous dead, and its quaint epitaphs

by Frank H. Perkins

About the author

Frank H. Perkins, identified in library and catalog records as Frank Herman Perkins (born 1854), is known for Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphs. The book was published in Plymouth, Massachusetts by A. S. Burbank/Pilgrim Bookstore in the 1890s, with later editions and digitized copies helping keep it available to modern readers.

His surviving published work suggests a writer with a strong interest in local memory—especially the way cemeteries preserve family history, public history, and the texture of everyday life. In Handbook of Old Burial Hill, he gathered historical notes, burial information, and epitaphs from one of Plymouth’s best-known historic sites, creating a small but useful record for readers interested in early New England.

Little biographical detail beyond his name and birth year was confirmed in the sources reviewed here, so his profile is best understood through the book itself: careful, place-centered, and clearly meant for readers who wanted history close at hand rather than in grand academic form.