As the culmination of a romance which started more than two years ago, Harry B. Perkins, a former Butler gridiron start, and Miss Maybelle Rochelle of Wichita, Kas., were married at Wichita Oct. 20, according to word just received in Indianapolis. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Walter Scott Priest, formerly of Indianapolis. Perkins, who is the son of Edgar A. Perkins of Indianapolis, chairman of the Indiana industrial board, and for many president of the State Federal of Labor, kept his friends here in ignorance of his marriage plans.
He went to Kansas two years ago to visit Martin Rochelle, a college friend, and to work in the Kansas wheat fields to condition himself for football. Perkins made his home while in Wichita with the Rochelles and there fell in love with Miss Rochelle. He returned to Butler in the fall of 1914 and made a name for himself in football, although he was proficient in other branches of athletics. Unable to remain away longer, however, he returned to Kanas last summer and has been there since.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Perkins are attending the Friends University at Wichita where Perkins is fitting himself for a teacher’s certificate in history. He also engaged in reportorial work on one of the Wichita papers. Perkins is a member of the Butler College Chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity.
Source: Indianapolis Star, November 9, 1915.