author
Frank H. Perkins
b. 1854
A careful local historian with a storyteller’s eye, this late-19th-century writer is best known for guiding readers through one of Plymouth’s most famous historic sites. His work turns gravestones, epitaphs, and old New England names into a vivid walk through early American memory.
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About the author
Frank H. Perkins, listed in library and book records as Frank Herman Perkins and identified as born in 1854, is known for Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts: Its History, Its Famous Dead, and Its Quaint Epitaphs. The book appeared in the early 1900s and has been preserved in library catalogs, Internet Archive scans, and Project Gutenberg, which suggests it remained a useful piece of local history long after its first publication.
His surviving work points to a writer deeply interested in Plymouth’s past. In Handbook of Old Burial Hill, he brings together cemetery history, notable burials, and memorable epitaphs, creating something that feels part guidebook and part historical portrait of the town. Rather than treating the site as a list of names, he seems to approach it as a place where local memory and early American history meet.
Little biographical information was easy to confirm beyond his name, birth year, and authorship of this book, so the picture we have is necessarily modest. Even so, his writing has helped keep a small but meaningful corner of Massachusetts history accessible to later readers.