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

  1. 1 2 "Florida Memory • Thomas James and Amelia Mather Keowin Perkins - Tallahassee, Florida".
  2. ↑ "What's in a name——Friendship". April 20, 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 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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