Thomas James Perkins (May 3, 1817 - August 6, 1896) [1] was a lawyer, railroad employee, intendant Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and a partner in a cotton trading business. [2]
He was born [3] to John Day Perkins and Elizabeth Bradshaw Perkins in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. He settled in Tallahassee in 1837, [1] years before statehood, and worked for a railroad company. [3] The Florida Archives have a portrait of him and his wife Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins. They had ten children. [3]
References
- ^ a b "Florida Memory • Thomas James and Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins - Tallahassee, Florida".
- ^ "What's in a name——Friendship". April 20, 2020.
- ^ a b c Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families in These States. F.A. Battey & Company. 1889. p. 652. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
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