Samuel G. Perkins was the younger brother of James and Thomas
Handasyd Perkins, the founders of the China trading firm of J. & T.
Perkins & Co. In the 1780s, Samuel G. Perkins handled their
business in Santo Domingo. In 1794, he was a partner in S. Higginson
& Co., one of whose captains, James Magee, had made a voyage to
China. (Thomas Handasyd Perkins. The New England Historical and
Genealogical Register, July 1856.) He married Stephen Higginson's
daughter, Barbara Cooper Higginson, in 1795. They had four daughters
and two sons, including James Handasyd Perkins (1810-1849).
(Descendants
of Moses** CLEVELAND. Sixth Generation.)
James H. Perkins was the youngest child of Samuel G. Perkins and
Barbara
Higginson of Boston. He went to Cincinnati in 1832, where he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1834. He met Sarah H. Elliott, who
was visiting her sister, Mrs. Samuel E. Foote, and married her
the same year. In 1835, he purchased the Saturday Evening Chronicle and
merged it with the Cincinnati Mirror.
In 1841, he became pastor of the Unitarian Society of' Cincinnati. He
was also Vice-President and Recording Secretary of the united Ohio and
Cincinnati Historical Societies. In 1849, believing that his two sons,
ages seven and nine,
were dead, Perkins apparently jumped into a river from a ferry-boat and
drowned. (James
H. Perkins (1810-1849). William Turner Coggeshall, The Poets and Poetry
of the West: With Biographical and Critical Notices 167-169. Columbus,
Ohio: Follett, Foster and Company, 1860; James Handasyd Perkins. In:
Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912. By S.J. Clarke Publishing, p.
587-589?).
The two sons were Charles Elliott Perkins and Edward Cranch Perkins.
Another son was James Handasyd Perkins (1848-1889), who married Mary
Longworth Stettinius, the daughter of John L. Stettinius of Cincinnati
(In: The Making of Nicholas Longworth: Annals of an American Family. By
Clara Longworth de Chambrun. Ayer Publishing, 1971, p. 101.) He
graduated from Exeter and Harvard in 1870, and the law school of
Cincinnati College in 1872. (James Handasyd Perkins Jr. In: Cincinnati,
the Queen City, 1788-1912. By S.J. Clarke Publishing, p. 603.) John
Longworth Stettinius [Jr.] (1832-) was the grandson of Nicholas
Longworth. He was a 33d degree Mason and a Royal Arch Mason. (John
Longworth Stettinius. In: Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912. By
S.J. Clarke Publishing, 1912, p. 612.)
"Mr. Perkins was born in Boston in 1810 and was educated at Exeter.
He was for a time a clerk in the counting room of his uncle, the well
known philanthropist Thomas H. Perkins. After a tour of England and the
West Indies, he settled in Cincinnati in 1832." His cousin, Rev. W.H.
Channing was pastor of the Unitarian Church, originally called the
First Congregational Society, and Perkins took his place when he died
in 1847 (p. 674). Perkins was one of the founders of the Semi-Colon
Club, a social club whose members included Harriet Beecher (Stowe),
E.P. Cranch, historian Charles W. Elliott, and Joseph Longworth.
Samuel E. Foote's house was its usual meeting place until the financial
panic of 1837. (Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative
Citizens. By Charles Theodore Greve. Biographical Pub. Co., 1904, p.
547[648].) Joseph Longworth was the son of Nicholas Longworth (-1863)
(p. 478[579]).
[Harriet Beecher (1811-) had a romantic attraction to Perkins.
(Harriet Beecher
Stowe: A Life. By Joan D. Hedrick. Oxford University Press, 1994.) She
was in Cincinnati from 1832 to 1836 with her father, Rev. Lyman
Beecher, and after her marriage to Prof. Stowe. Her mother was Roxanna
Foote, his first wife, and Samuel E. Foote was her uncle. (The Life of
Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Charles Edward Stowe. Project Gutenberg.) In
1852, according to the Boston Taveler,
she received a copyright premium of $10,300 from Jewett & Co. for
three months sales of her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It was reputed to
be "the largest sum of money ever received by an author, either
American or European, from the actual sales of a single work in so
short a period of time." Cleveland Herold, July 12, 1852.)]
"Efforts to define and control delinquency in Ohio originated in
the
late 1830s among a local elite in Cincinnati, by far the state's
largest city. This group may be usefully described as white males in
their forties, Protestant moralists, Yankee migrants, Whigs (later
Republicans), and businessmen or professionals (law, journalism, or
education, often pursued simultaneously). Notable among them were
Alphonso Taft, Samuel Lewis, and James
Handasyd Perkins3.
They opposed slavery and enthusiastically supported a variety of good
works, including popular education and the systematic organization of
poor relief and penal institutions.... 3. Alphonso Taft, Secretary of
War in the Grant administration and father of the President, was born
in Vermont. He received his law degree from Yale (1833) and migrated
from Connecticut in 1840 to become one of Cincinnati's most successful
lawyers. Samuel Lewis, in 1814 an impoverished migrant from
Massachusetts, gained affluence through marriage and as a legal adviser
to local businessmen. In 1838 he was appointed the first State
Superintendent of Common Schools. Militantly antislavery, he helped
Salmon P. Chase, another Yankee-born Cincinnati lawyer, organize the
Liberty Party. Later, Lewis was an unsuccessful Free Soil candidate for
Congress and the governorship. James Handasyd Perkins left a
comfortable family import business in Boston to become a
lawyer-journalist in Cincinnati
in 1832. He subsequently accepted a call from the First Congregational
Society, but the relationship was strained as Perkins goaded the pious
membership to get involved in practical work such as the Cincinnati
Relief Union which he helped to establish. See Henry F. Pringle, The
Life and Times of William Howard Taft, I (New York, 1939), 7-19;
W. G. W. Lewis, Biography of
Samuel Lewis (Cincinnati, 1857); William H. Channing, ed., Memoirs and
Writings of James Handasyd Perkins, 2 vols. (Cincinnati, 1851)." ("The
Family System of Common Farmers": The Origins of Ohio's Reform Farm,
1840-1858. By Robert M. Mennell. Ohio History, Spring 1980, Vol. 89 No.
2, pp 125-126.)
Samuel E. and Elizabeth (Elliott) Foote's daughter, Katherine
Virgina Foote, married Alfred Perkins Rockwell (1834-1903), Yale 1855,
son of John Arnold and Mary Watkinson (Perkins) Rockwell. He was
Professor of Mining in the Sheffield Scientific School 1865-1868, and
at M.I.T. from 1868-1873. He was chairman of the Board of Fire
Commissioners in Boston from 1873-76, President of the Eastern Railroad
Co. 1876-79, and Treasurer of the Great Falls (N.H.) Manufacturing Co.
until retiring in 1886. In 1901 he was the official representative of
Yale University at the Millenary Celebration of King Alfred the Great
in England. (Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased
during the Academical Year ending in June 1904, p. 44-45.) He died
while visiting his daughter, the wife of Prof. Edward H. Jenkins, in
New Haven. (Gen. Alfred Rockwell Dead. New York Times, Dec. 25, 1903;
Death List of a Day. New York Times, Mar. 25, 1902.)
Her brother, Charles Wyllys Elliot, married Mary Green White,
daughter of Abijah and Ann Maria (Howard) White, and a sister of Mrs.
James Russell Lowell and Mrs. Dr. Estes Howe. He had cattle and sheep
interests in Nebraska and Kansas. He died in 1883. (Genealogy of the
Descendants of John Eliot. By Ellsworth Eliot, George Edwin Eliot,
William Horace Eliot. Revised. The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor
Press, 1905, p. 159.) [James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was appointed
minister to Spain by President Rutherford B. Hayes, who was part of the
Cincinnati clique. Lowell High School in San Francisco was named after
him in 1894.]
"Charles Elliott Perkins was born in Cincinnati Nov. 24, 1840. When
19 years old he went to Burlington, Iowa, and became a clerk in the
office of the Assistant Treasurer of the Burlington & Missouri
River Railroad. In 1862 he was appointed Assistant Treasurer of the
road, and three years later was made Superintendent. In 1875 he was
appointed a Director of new Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system.
The following year he was elected Vice President, and in 1881 was
advanced to the office of President." He resigned in 1901, when New
York interests took control of the road. (Charles E. Perkins Dead. New
York Times, Nov. 9, 1907.) In 1883, the certificates of the 5 per cent
bonds of the CBQ were exchanged for the common stock of the Hannibal
and St. Joseph Railroad, and the latter's Gould directors resigned. The
new directors were John A. Griswold, Peter Geddes, Elihu Root, W.J.
Ladd, Charles E. Perkins, and C.J. Paine. (Notes of Various Interests.
New York Times, May 17, 1883.) Directors of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy in 1885 were John M. Forbes, Charles J. Paine, Edward
Bangs, Francis W. Hunnewell, Peter Geddes, Sidney Bartlett, John L.
Gardiner, T. Jefferson Coolidge, John N.A. Griswold, Wirt Dexter, and
Charles E. Perkins. (Notes of Various Interests. New York Times, May
20, 1886.) In 1897: John M. Forbes, Charles J. Paine, William Endicott
Jr., Frances W. Hunnewill, Richard Olney, and George P. Gardner of
Boston; John N.A. Griswold and James H. Smith of New York; T. Jefferson
Coolidge of Manchester, Mass., Edward W. Hooper, of Cambridge, Mass.;
and Charles E. Perkins of Burlington, Iowa. (Burlington & Quincy
Election. New York Times, May 9, 1895.) In 1897, Endicott left.
(Burlington's Good Report. New York Times, May 13, 1897.) Perkins
continued as a director after resigning as president. His former
assistant, Second Vice President George B. Harris, took his place as
president. (Burlington's New President. New York Times, Feb. 21, 1901.)
He began work as a clerk at 16. He joined the Burlington & Missouri
Railroad as a clerk in the office of Charles R. Lowell, the assistant
treasurer (with whom he also boarded), and he was promoted when Lowell
left the next year. As superintendant, he extended the line into
Nebraska. (From "Progressive Men of Iowa," 1899. In: Genealogy of the
Descendants of John Eliot. By Ellsworth Eliot, George Edwin Eliot,
William Horace Eliot. Revised. The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor
Press, 1905, pp. 121-123.)
[Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864) was the valedictorian at Harvard in 1854. He was killed in action in the Civil War. He was a nephew of James Russell Lowell. Mrs. Charles Russell Lowell (Josephine Shaw) co-founded the Charity Organization Society of New York in 1882. Wikipedia accessed 3/2/08.]
Charles Elliott Perkins was a director of the Bell Telephone Company
as well, starting with its second election in 1885, when he replaced
Charles S. Bradlee of Providence. William R. Driver was elected
Treasurer, and George Eustis Hubbard, Clerk. (The Bell Telephone
Company. New York Times, Apr. 1, 1885.) Clerk - Charles Eustis Hubbard;
Treasurer - William R. Driver, Directors - Francis Blake, Charles P.
Bowditch, George L. Bradley, Channing Clapp, Alexander Cochrane,
William H. Forbes, Charles Eustis Hubbard, Gardiner G. Hubbard, John E.
Hudson, Robert B. Minturn, Charles E. Perkins, and Thomas Sanders. "The
above-named gentlemen were elected by a practically unanimous vote, and
the meeting adjourned." (The Bell Telephone. New York Times, Mar. 30,
1887.)
Mrs. Charles E. Perkins was Edith Forbes, a daughter of R.B. Forbes
of Milton, sister of J. Murray Forbes, and cousin of J. Malcolm Forbes.
She was killed in an earthquake while visiting her daughter in
California. Their children were Mrs. Robert F. Herrick and Robert
Forbes Perkins of Framingham, Mrs. Edith Cunningham of Santa Barbara,
Mrs. William Hooper of Manchester, and Charles E. Perkins (Jr.) of
Burlington, Iowa. They were married in 1864. (Victim Was From Boston.
New York Times, Jun. 30, 1925.) Robert Forbes Perkins was the head of
the Boston brokerage Bond & Goodwin. He was born in Milton in 1865,
and graduated from Harvard in 1889. He was with Lee, Higginson &
Co. until 1897, when he joined Bond & Goodwin. He was survived by
two sons, four daughters, four sisters, and one brother. (Robert F.
Perkins, Retired Broker, 72. New York Times, Feb. 21, 1938.)
Charles
Elliott Perkins Jr. was born in Burlington in 1881, and was a classmate
of President Franklin [Roosevelt] and a member of the Board of
Overseers of Harvard University. He was President of the C.B. & Q.
from 1918 to 1921, and a director until 1929; and a member of the
executive board of the Southern Pacific Railroad. (Charles E. Perkins,
Rail Official, Dies. New York Times, Jun. 20, 1943.) He was a trustee
of FDR's National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis in 1937. Charles Elliott
Perkins (3d) died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at large ranch in
Santa Ynez, Calif. (Charles Elliott Perkins, 47, Was Rancher in
California. New York Times, Mar. 23, 1965.)
"Ralph Bennet Forbes's third son, John Murray Forbes [1813-1898],
like his two older brothers, went to China at an early age and soon
acquired a great fortune. Unlike them, he then transferred his business
interests to projects within the United States, especially railroads.
He was the driving force behind the construction of the Michigan
Central and the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroads, serving as
president of the latter in the 1880s. During the Civil War, he aided
the Northern cause in many ways: he acted as consultant to the Navy,
traveled to England to prevent the Laird "rams" from falling into
Confederate hands, and urged Lincoln to allow the enlistment of more
Negro troops. John Murray Forbes and his wife Sarah Hathaway Forbes had
a daughter named Mary Hathaway Forbes. Their son William Hathaway
Forbes (1840-1897) married Edith Emerson in 1865 and became the first
president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."
(Biographical Sketch. Forbes Family Papers 1732-1931. Massachusetts
Historical Society.)
"Jane Sedgwick Watson, 4th child of Robert Sedgwick Watson (B43,4)
and Mary Taber (Hathaway) Watson, was born May 16, 1838, at New
Bedford, Mass. She had a twin sister, Louisa, who died at the age of
one year. She married June 10, 1869, Edward Cranch Perkins of Boston,
who grew up in Connecticut. He was son of James Handasyd Perkins,
Unitarian minister of that city and of Sarah H. (Elliott) Perkins. He
attended Exeter Academy, was on the Harvard crew against Yale at Lake
Quinisgamond, Worcester, and graduated at Harvard College and at the
Harvard Law School. He was a prominent Boston lawyer and cotton buyer
for New England mills, developed mining properties and was counsel for
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad of which his brother,
Charles E. Perkins, was president. His Harvard classmate, William Jones
Ladd, married his wife's sister, Anna Russell Watson " (A Sedgwick
Genealogy: Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick, p. 182.
Sedgwick.org.) Edward Cranch Perkins graduated from Harvard University
in 1866. He
died in 1914. (Bachelors of Arts, Harvard University, Class of 1866.)
He was the father of Thomas Nelson Perkins (1870-1937), Elliott Perkins
(1873-), James Handasyd Perkins (1876-1940), and John Forbes Perkins
(1878-).
"Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Boston, a brother of Thomas
Nelson
Perkins's great-grandfather, became the first President of America's
first railroad, when he was made head of the Granite Railway, a crude
tramway two and three-fourths miles long, which was built at Quincy,
Mass., in 1826, to convey to the waterfront the granite blocks with
which the Bunker Hill monument was built. The Colonel also was one of
the most noted merchant ship owners of his time, having maintained one
of the country's largest fleets of clipper ships in the China trade.
The present Mr. Perkins also has a connection with the railroad world
in that John M. Forbes, a nephew of Colonel Perkins, had a prominent
part in the building of the Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, became
its President and was succeeded in that office by his cousin, Charles
E. Perkins. Thomas Nelson Perkins was born in Milton, Mass., in 1870.
He was graduated from Harvard College in 1891 and from Harvard Law
School three years later. He has been a member of the Massachusetts bar
for thirty-five years. During the World War Mr. Perkins was made chief
counsel to the War Industries Board, and later became Assistant to the
Secretary of War for purchase and supply. When the Dawes plan was
adopted at the London conference in 1924 Mr. Perkins was selected as an
added member of the Reparations Commission with a vote on all matters
pertaining to the Dawes plan. Through that post he was in the important
position, during the period when the Dawes organization was getting
started, of holding the vote which would have decided a tie among the
other four nationals." He later resigned to become President of the
Arbitral Tribunal of Interpretations, a post he held as of 1928, when
he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boston &
Maine Railroad. He was also a Fellow of Harvard University, Chairman of
the Commercial Radio International Committee, Chairman of the Executive
Committee of the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, Vice President
and a director of the Railway and Light Securities Company, and a
director of the Lee Higginson Trust Company, Merrimac Chemical Company,
Flintkote Company and the Postum Company. (Perkins A Descendant of
First Railway Head. New York Times, Mar. 11, 1928.) He was named an
alternate to J.P. Morgan on the US Reparations Committee. (Perkins
Sails For Paris. New York Times, Feb. 16, 1929.) He was acting
president of the Boston & Maine when George Hannauer died. (T.N.
Perkins Heads the Boston & Maine. New York Times, Nov. 6, 1929.)
Perkins and W. Cameron Forbes, partner of J.M. Forbes & Co. and
Governor General of the Philippines under President Taft, were elected
directors of the Engineers Public Service Company. "Both men have been
connected with the Puget Sound Power and Light Company, recently
acquired by Engineers, for more than thirty years." (Utility Elects Two
Directors. New York Times, Dec. 9, 1928.)
Thomas Nelson Perkins was an usher at the marriage of James
Abercrombie Burden to William
Douglas Sloane's daughter Adele. Frederick W. Winthrop was best
man, and the other ushers were G. Richmond Fearing Jr., C.C. Baldwin,
Louis Adams Frothingham, Rufus K. Thomas, and George Baty Bates, all
Harvard friends and members of the Porcellian Club. (A notable Wedding
at Lenox. New York Times, Jun. 2, 1895.)
Perkins was an usher at the wedding of Frederick Winthrop to Dorothy
Amory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Amory of Boston. Grenville
Winthrop was best man. The other ushers were William Amory 2d and
George G. Amory, the bride's brothers; Hugh Whitney, Ingersoll Amory,
J.A. Burden Jr. and F.N. Watriss of New York; Francis R. Bangs and
Rudolph L. Agassiz of Boston; and Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati.
Mary Curtis and Marjorie Cochran were bridesmaids, and the pages were
the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, née Clara
Amory. (A Day's Weddings. New York Times, Jan. 21, 1903.)
Thomas Nelson Perkins was best man for Nicholas Longworth of
Cincinnati, who married President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice.
(The President A Guest At Longworth Dinner. New York Times, Feb. 16,
1906.) Perkins and Longworth had been candidates for the Varsity rowing
team at Harvard (Harvard University. New York Times, Feb. 23, 1890);
Perkins became the captain, and C.F. Adams was the coach. (Harvard's
Unpromising Crew. New York Times, Jun. 2, 1892.) Alice was the oldest
child of President Roosevelt, and the only
child of his first marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, who died a
few days after she was born.
Thomas Nelson Perkins's second wife was Louisa J. Catherine Adams
(b. 1871),
the daughter of Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915) [who had been
president of the Union Pacific Railroad 1884-90]. They were married in
1906. (Descendants of King
Charlemagne. 36th Generation and 35th Generation.) The five Fellows and
Treasurer of the Harvard Corporation who chose the new President of
Harvard in 1908: Henry Pickering Walcott, Henry Lee Higginson, Francis
Cabot Lowell, Arthur Tracy Cabot, and Thomas Nelson Perkins; Charles
Francis Adams was Treasurer. Walcott was a physician and a member and
later chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Health. Arthur Tracy Cabot
was "one of Boston's leading Surgeons." (Abbott Lawrence Lowell,
1856-1943. By Henry Aaron Yeomans. Ayer Publishing, 1948, pp. 84-85.)
In 1913, Thomas
Nelson Perkins was trustee of the newly-formed Harvard Mutual
Foundation, "a system that will ultimately mean, it is believed,
millions of dollars to Harvard University." Fellow trustees were
Charles Francis Adams 2d, Treasurer of Harvard University; Arthur
Lyman, George Uriel Crocker, John Candler Cobb, Alexander H. Ladd, and
Charles H.W. Foster. Adams said that "The trust is created to hold
certain donations of funds and property from several men who desire to
provide an income for their immediate heirs and have the property then
go to Harvard, and is so arranged that other funds and properties can
be added to the trust from time to time. I do not care to give the
names and amounts of the donations, as I think the donors would prefer
not to have their names published, but will say that a very substantial
amount has already been received." (Millions in Harvard Trust. New York
Times, Mar. 26, 1913.) Perkins resigned as a Fellow of the Harvard
Corporation to serve on the
Reparations Committee in Europe. He had been a Fellow since 1905 and
was the youngest member ever elected. (T.N. Perkins Resigns Fellowship.
New York Times, Oct. 30, 1924.) Clarence Cook Little, the
future head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, was
secretary to the Harvard Corporation from 1910-12. And, in 1922, the
Office
of Cancer Investigations of the US Public Health Service at Harvard
University (which was subsequently merged into the National Cancer
Institute), was established at Harvard by Assistant Surgeon General Joseph W. Schereschewsky.
Perkins was a member of the Harvard Corporation at during both times.
Thomas N. Perkins accompanied Owen D. Young, Vice President of the General Electric Company, to Argentina in order to consolidate the radio operations of the Radio Corporation of America with those of the English Marconi Company, the French Compagnie de Telegraphie Sans Fil and the German Telefunken. (Big Radio Concerns to Use One Station. New York Times, Mar. 24, 1922.)
He was a member of the US Commission to the allied war talks, headed by Col. Edward Mandell House [a close friend of President Woodrow Wilson since his days as Governor of New Jersey in 1911]. Other members were Admiral W.S. Benson, Chief of Naval Operations; General Tasker H. Bliss, Chief of the General Staff; Assistant Secretary Oscar T. Crosby; Vance C. McCormick, Chairman of the War Trade Board; Bainbridge Colby of the Shipping Board; and Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor of the Food Administration; and Gordon Auchincloss as Secretary. (House in Europe, Heads War Envoys. Nov. 8, 1917.) He was a member of the U.S. War Industries Board in 1918, with Bernard M. Baruch as chairman, Herbert Bayard Swope as his assistant, and Howard P. Ingels as secretary. The other original members were Alexander Legge, J. Leonard Replogle, Judge Edwin B. Parker; George N. Peek, Gerard Swope and Thomas Nelson Perkins representing the War Department; Robert S. Brookings, Admiral F.F. Fletcher, General George W. Goethals, Hugh Frayne, and Albert C. Ritchie [Governor of Maryland in 1930]. The War Board held biennial reunions until at least 1930. (War Board to Meet Again. New York Times, Nov. 10, 1930.)
Thomas Nelson Perkins was counsel for the Lee, Higginson Trust Company when it was chartered in 1927. Those who favored the plan included George C. Lee, Charles E. Cotting, David H. Howie and representatives of the Second National, Atlantic National, Merchants' National, Shawmut National and Old Colony Trust Company. (Trust Firm Gets Charter. New York Times, Aug. 31, 1927.) The Lee Higginson Trust Company was liquidated in 1932. "Announcement of the impending discontinuance of the trust company was made by its president, Francis C. Gray. Among its directors are former Governor Allen of Massachusetts, Thomas N. Perkins,... and L. Edmund Zacher, president of the Traveler Insurance Company. George C. Lee is chairman of the board. When the trust company was organized, in the Fall of 1927, it was announced that Ivar Kreuger, late Swedish financier, would be a member of its board of directors." (Lee, Higginson Trust Plans to Liquidate. New York Times, May 25, 1932.) Directors of Stone & Webster in 1933: Henry G. Bradlee, W. Cameron Forbes, Joseph P. Grace, George O. Muhlfeld, Thomas N. Perkins, Herbert L. Pratt, Russell Robb, Charles A. Stone, Whitney Stone, Eliot Wadsworth, Walter B. Walker, Edwin S. Webster, Edwin S. Webster Jr., and Albert H. Wiggin, all except Walker returning. (Board of 22 Cut to 14 By Stone & Webster. New York Times, Mar. 24, 1933.)
Perkins was elected a director of A.T. & T., along with lawyer
Owen J.
Roberts of Phildelphia and Myron
C. Taylor, Chairman U.S. Steel, to
replace the late John I. Waterbury, and Secretary of the Navy Charles
Francis Adams 2d [a nephew of his in-laws] and Edward Farnham Greene,
who
retired. (Vote $2,000,000 A.T. & T. Stock Total. New York Times,
Mar. 27, 1929.) "The First National Bank leads in the percentage of
representation on the A.T. & T. board. George F. Baker, chairman,
and George F. Baker Jr.,
vice chairman of the First National, are
directors of A.T. & T., while First National directors who are also
on the A.T. & T. board include Myron C. Taylor and Walter S.
Gifford. The Guaranty Trust may be said to be represented on the A.T.
& T. board by James S.
Alexander, John W. Davis, Charles P. Cooper
and David F. Houston. Other directors of A.T. & T. who are
connected with banking institutions include Thomas Nelson Perkins, a
director of the State Street Trust Company of Boston; Edward E. Loomis,
a trustee of the New York Trust Company; E.V.R. Thayer, chairman of the
executive committee of the Central Trust Company of Illinois, and
Daniel Willard, a director of the First National Bank of Chicago." Winthrop W. Aldrich,
president of the Chase National Bank, was newly
elected. (A.T. & T.'s Banking Directorate. New York Times, Aug. 24,
1930.) Elihu Root, of Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, and David
A. Crawford of Chicago will elected to fill vacancies caused by the
deaths of Perkins and E.E. Loomis. (Elected to Fill Vacancies on Board
of A.T. & T. New York Times, Dec. 16, 1937.) S. Clay Williams,
Chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was elected to replace George
S. Baker, deceased. (Investors Uphold Policies of A.T. & T. New
York Times, Apr. 21, 1938.)
Perkins was elected a director of the Southern Pacific Railroad to
fill a vacancy caused by the death of James N. Jarvie. (Southern
Pacific Stock. New York Times, Apr. 10, 1930.) Thomas Nelson Perkins
was elected a director of Loews Corporation to replace Harley L. Clark.
Nicholas M. Schenck was the president of Loews, and Eugene W. Leake and
David Warfield were other directors. Metro-Goldwyn-Pictures Corporation
was a subsidiary of Loews. (Bonuses Cause Tilt at Loew's Meeting. New
York Times. Dec. 16, 1932; Loew's Securities Tied Up By Court. New York
Times, Dec. 16, 1933.)
Members of the Harvard Corporation 1936: Dr. James B. Conant, President of Harvard; Henry L. Shattuck of Boston, Treasurer; Thomas N. Perkins, Dr. Roger I. Lee and Charles A. Coolidge Jr. of Boston, Grenville Clark of New York; while Henry James, trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, was newly elected to replace Charles P. Curtis Jr. of Boston. (On Harvard Corporation. New York Times, Feb. 25, 1936.)
"Mr. Perkins had practiced law in Boston since 1894. He was a member
of the legal firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins. He was an
attorney for many corporations." His widow and three sons, Elliot,
James H. 2d, and Thomas N. Perkins Jr. survived him. (T.N. Perkins
Dies; Young Plan Aide. New York Times, Oct. 8, 1937.)
Anne Bissell Perkins, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Nelson Perkins and the late Mr. Perkins, married William Wallace McDowell Jr. She was with the International Business Machines Corporation in New York; her father was president of the Bowen Company, a Boston investment firm. McDowell's father was a vice president of I.B.M., and he was with Philip Morris International in New York. (Anne B. Perkins, Alumna of Smith, Bay State Bride. New York Times, Jun. 4, 1967.) William W. McDowell Jr. was a vice president of Philip Morris Inc. in 1976. (Philip Morris, Federal Election Commission Report Form #3, alternative monthly report for September, 1976.) W.W. McDowell approved the papers to be presented at the Tobacco Chemists' Research Conference. (W.W. McDowell to Dr. R.B. Seligman, May 23, 1977.) In 1979, he was an Executive Vice President of Operations reporting to S.P. Pollock, President of P.M. USA. (Domestic Cigarette Industry Competitive Profile. RJR, 1979.)
FEC Report Form #3, Sep. 1976 / tobacco documentEdward C. Johnson 2d "began his long association with the world of
finance in 1935 when, as a practicing lawyer with the firm of Ropes,
Gray, Boyden & Perkins (now Ropes & Gray), he began handling
the legal affairs of Incorporated Investors, then one of Boston's
largest investment companies. Four years later, he quit law and joined
the investment firm as treasurer. In 1943, he became president and
director of Fidelity Fund, a small ($3 million) Boston outfit." This
became FMR Corporation, the financial services holding company that
includes the Fidelity group. His
son, Edward C. Johnson 3d, succeeded him as its head. "A Boston
Brahmin, Mr. Johnson was born Edward Crosby Johnson 2d in a townhouse
on Beacon street, Back Bay, on Jan. 19, 1898, the son of Samuel
Johnson, a partner in a leading dry-goods firm [C.F. Hovey &
Company], and Josephine (Forbush)
Johnson. His ancestors came to this country in 1635 and were among the
early settlers of Essex County. He was a graduate of Milton Academy,
Harvard College, class of 1920, and Harvard Law School in 1924. During
World War I, he served overseas with the Navy as an electrician's mate.
Between college and law school he studied for a year at Harvard
Business School. Following law school, he joined Ropes, Gray." (Edward
Johnson 2d, Retired Board Chairman at Fidelity. Boston Globe, Apr. 4,
1984.) Edward Crosby Johnson 2d's father, Samuel Johnson, was the son
of Dr. Amos Howe Johnson. Edward C. Johnson 2d married Elsie Livingston
Johnson, whose
father, Reginald Mansfield Johnson, was the son of Rev. Francis Howe
Johnson. (Samuel Johnson. New York Times, Aug. 28, 1932; Miss Julia
Edwards Weds R.M. Johnson. New York Times, Jul. 3, 1902; R.K.
West's Master List.)
The Johnsons' grandfathers, Dr. Amos and Rev. Francis Johnson, were brothers, whose sister, Mary Ann, married Prof. Austin Phelps of Andover Theological Seminary. Edward Johnson Phelps, Skull & Bones 1886, was their son. He was secretary, treasurer, and general manager of the Northern Trust Safe Deposit Company of Chicago from 1895 to 1929, president and a director from 1923 to 1929. He represented the Yale Club of Chicago on the Alumni Board from 1910 to 1916, and was a member of the Board of Education of New Trier Township High School from 1918-1923. (Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts. By William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910; Bulletin of Yale University. Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University Deceased during the Year 1938-1939, pp. 53-54.)
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs / Google Books"Fidelity manages $405 billion in assets. One manager alone, Jeffrey
Vinik, who runs Fidelity's Magellan Fund, controls $54 billion. His
enthusiasm for tech stocks helped fuel the sector for two years.
Fidelity is so powerful that most traders and even many independent
fund managers will talk about it only off the record." (In New York:
Fidelity May Be Behind IBM Stock's Rapid Rise. By Robert McGough. Asian
Wall Street Journal. New York, N.Y.: Feb 2, 1996.) "Fidelity oversees a
far-flung domain of more than nine million customers and $497 billion
in assets under management. Its 223 mutual funds, which have $340
billion in assets, include Fidelity Magellan Fund, which at $50 billion
is the largest mutual fund in the U.S. Many stock traders say Fidelity
is the most powerful trading force in the U.S. equity markets.
Regulatory filings triggered by Fidelity's big stake in Chrysler Corp.
disclose that the Johnson family has reduced its stake in the voting
stock of Fidelity's parent to 49%. Fidelity says three long-time family
associates are included in that figure. As recently as April, according
to a Fidelity fund proxy statement, the family alone owned 80% of FMR."
(Fidelity Gives Majority Stake To Managers. By Robert McGough. Asian
Wall Street Journal. New York, N.Y.: Aug 17, 1995.) FMR Corporation
held a large percentage of shares of both Philip
Morris and R.J. Reynolds before and during
the state lawsuits against the cigarette companies.
James T. Mountz of Ropes & Gray was a director of the American
Cancer Society. "In 1959, the Board established the Committee on
Tobacco and Cancer to succeed the Ad Hoc Committee which had guided the
Board since 1957. Dr. Taylor was named chairman, a position he held
until the fall of 1963. The Committee was composed of distinguished
physicians and laymen, including: James M. Brittain, Director of the
Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co.; Dr. Frank W. Foote, Jr., of
Memorial Hospital, New York City; Dr. [John R.] Heller; Dr. Leonard W.
Larson, Bismark, N.D., pathologist and former president of the American
Medical Association; Mr. [William
B.] Lewis; Arthur L. Montgomery, President of the Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola Bottling Co., and Allied
Plants; James T. Mountz, Boston, Mass., attorney; Dr. Ochsner; Dr. I.
S. Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania and in 1963 President of
the American Cancer Society; Victor A. Scholis, Louisville, Ky., Vice
President and Director of Stations WHAS and WHAS-TV; Dr. Wendell M.
Stanley, Director of the Virus Laboratory, University of California,
and 1946 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry; Dr. Stebbins; Waldo I. Stoddard,
Grand Rapids, Mich., banker; and Dr. Ashbel C. Williams, Jacksonville,
Fla. surgeon." (The Position of the American Cancer Society Regarding
Tobacco and Lung Cancer. To the City Editor [form letter]. American
Cancer Society News Service, Jan. 7, 1964.)
He attended the World Conference of Smoking & Health in 1967.
Chapter VII, Proceedings of the World Conference on Smoking and Health / tobacco documentElliot Lee Richardson was born in Boston in 1920 and graduated from Milton Academy. He was a philosophy major at Harvard. He served in the Arny during World War II, and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1947, where he was president and editor of the law review. "Mr. Richardson spent four years at the Boston law firm of Ropes & Gray, joined the Washington staff of US Senator Leverett Salstonstall (R-Mass.) for two years, returned to Ropes & Gray, then served as acting counsel to Governor Christian A. Herter." He was named assistant secretary for legislation of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare in 1957. He was a US Attorney and Massachusetts Attorney General in the 1950s and 60s. In the Nixon Administration, he was undersecretary of state, secretary of health, education and welfare (1970), secretary of defense, and attorney general, where he and his deputy, William Ruckelshaus, refused to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. He was ambassador to Great Britain and secretary of commerce in the Ford administration, and ambassador at large in the Carter administration. In 1980, he joined the Washington office of Milbank, Tweed Hadley, & McCloy as senior partner. "Mr. Richardson's great-grandfather, both grandfathers, a grandmother, three uncles, his father, and both his brothers were physicians." (Elliot Richardson is dead at 79; was key GOP stalwart. By Mark Feeney, Boston Globe, Jan. 1, 2000.)
James H. Perkins was elected president and a director of the Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York in 1921. During the 1920s, Farmers Loan and Trust became a major stockholder in the American Tobacco Company, and James H. Perkins was on American's board of directors between 1926 and 1929.
John F. Perkins (b. 1878) was a judge of the Boston Juvenile Court.
His
son, Malcolm D. Perkins, graduated from Harvard in 1936 and Harvard Law
School in 1939. He was with the firm of Parker & Duryee until 1941,
when he took flight training and joined Pan American World Airways,
then the Army Air Transport Command. He married Sheila D. Redmond, the
daughter of Roland Redmond. (Sheila Redmond Becomes A Bride. New York
Times, Feb. 3, 1944.) His son, Dr. John F. Perkins Jr. (1909-1966), was
a professor of physiology at the University of Chicago School of
Medicine. He received his MD in 1936 from Harvard Medical School. (John
F. Perkins, 57; Physiology Teacher. New York Times, Aug. 10, 1966.)
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