Thomas James Perkins (May 3, 1817 – August 6, 1896) was a lawyer, railroad employee, intendant Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida, and a partner in a cotton trading business.
He was born to John Day Perkins and Elizabeth Bradshaw Perkins in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. He settled in Tallahassee in 1837, years before statehood, and worked for a railroad company. The Florida Archives have a portrait of him and his wife Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins. They had ten children.
References
- ^ "Florida Memory • Thomas James and Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins - Tallahassee, Florida".
- "What's in a name——Friendship". April 20, 2020.
- ^ 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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