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- from "The New York Herald", 26 Dec 1922 (newspapers.com)
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Grover Perkins of Brookline, Mass., at a luncheon at their home to-day will announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss M. Therese Perkins, to Mr. Palmer Cosslett Putnam, son of Major George Haven Putnam, publisher and author, and Mrs. Putnam of 335 West Eighty-sixth street. As part of the engagement celebrations Dr. Bertrand Russell of Keene, N.H. and Boston has loaned Mr. Putnam his country house at Fitzwilliam, N.H., where Mr. Putnam will give a house party from December 29 to January 1 for his fiancee chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Harrison Taylor of Philadelphia. The engagement is of wide interest. Miss Perkins is a member of a well known family of Boston and Brookline. She attended Miss Winsor's School and now is a senor at Vassar. No arrangements have been made for the wedding. Mr. Putnam passed Christmas with his parents and sisters, the Misses Ethel G. and Bertha H. Putnam. He is a nephew of Mr. Herbert Putnam, who has been Librarian of Congress since 1899, and of Miss Ruth Putnam, authoress, of Washington, and is a cousin of Mr. George Palmer Putnam of Rye, who is a son of the late John Bishop Putnam. At present Mr. Putnam is a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the Number Six Club and the Beaver Club. During the war he served with the Royal Air Force. He also is a member of the Explorers Club of New York and in connection with a post-graduate course for a doctor's degree at Technology he is preparing a theses based on exploratory work among the volcanoes of Central America. He was in that little known part of the Americas from February until May of this year and was the first explorer, so far as is known, to reach the summit of Rincon del la Vieja in the western province of Costa Rica.
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1900 - 1992 (91 years)
Henry Grover Perkins, b. 16 Jul 1865, Fitzwilliam, Cheshire, NH