Abigail (Smith) Perkins, is the daughter of Rev. John Smith and “Polly” Cleveland, and was born December 15, 1781. The excellent portrait of Mrs. Abigail {Smith) Perkins,  is contributed by her granddaughter, Mrs. Mary Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted.

            Cyrus Perkins, M.D., grad. Dartmouth Coll., 1800, afterward took degree M.D. from Dartmouth Coll. Medical School.. He received honorary degrees from Harvard College. Practiced medicine in Boston until 1809, when he accepted Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery at Dartmouth Medical College ; resigning in 1819, he located in New York city, where he practiced until within a few years of decease.