historian who served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester
Dexter Perkins (1889–1984) born in Boston, and educated at Boston Latin School, Perkins received his A.B. (1909) and PhD (1914) from Harvard University, where he was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. In his doctoral studies, Archibald Cary Coolidge was a formative influence.
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.