Guardianship of Perkins

Mark E. Perkins is a disabled veteran of World War I. He became the recipient of certain compensation and insurance benefits from the United States, and in 1923 Isadore Perkins was appointed his guardian. During the early period of the guardianship the ward lived in various veterans’ hospitals and on the farm of the guardian in Trem-pealeau county. In the late ’20’s he moved to the village of Trempealeau, took some rooms and kept house for himself. In 1920 he expressed a desire to buy the house in which he presently resides, located about a quarter of a mile northwest of Trempealeau village.…