. The street railway review . - Col. Per-kins, as recalling that important event in most menslives, his natal day. Along back in 1798, the grandfatherof the present representative of the Perkins family, set-tled in Warren, Ohio, as agent for the Erie Land Com-panv. He was a prominent man in all the piominentevents of early Ohio history, being one of the Ohio canalcommissioners, president of the first bank in the westernreserve, and a general under commission of the UnitedStates in the last struggle with Great Britain. The fatherof the subject of our sketch was also a prime mover in a!^the grea
. The street railway review . - Col. Per-kins, as recalling that important event in most menslives, his natal day. Along back in 1798, the grandfatherof the present representative of the Perkins family, set-tled in Warren, Ohio, as agent for the Erie Land Com-panv. He was a prominent man in all the piominentevents of early Ohio history, being one of the Ohio canalcommissioners, president of the first bank in the westernreserve, and a general under commission of the UnitedStates in the last struggle with Great Britain. The fatherof the subject of our sketch was also a prime mover in a!^the great works that tended to make Ohio the great^influential, wealthy commonwealth which we find it to-day. To him, perhaps, more than to any other one man, isdue the honor of buildinjr the Cleveland and Mahoninff. J. B. PERKINS. Xallej- railroad. With these antecendents it is little mat-ter of surprise that Mr. Perkins has achieved the successwhich has crowned all his efforts. True to the educational instincts that have distinguishedthe people of Ohio, since the first advent into the GreatWest of the clever Yankees, young Perkins was sent offto school at an early age and entered his preparatorycourse of study at South Williston, Mass. After thethorough foundation which was here laid, Mr. Perkinsentered Old Williams and was graduated in 1877, ^^ theage of 23. After graduation his first attention to business was theimprovement of his city realt\-, and, on the completion ofthis not very easy task, his interests turned towards man-ufacturing. With the inception of the Walker Manufacturing Com-pany, Mr. Perkins was chosen a director, and in 1S85 waselected president, which important office he has held con- tinu()usl\- to date. His other large business connectionsinclude an interest in two other of C
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