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]
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