PERKINS, Harry S., East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
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Harry Scott Perkins is a progressive planter of East Feliciana parish, and
is residing on and managing the plantation on which his ancestors settled
on first coming to the state.  He was born in this parish in 1859 and was
the third of his parents' eight children.  After attending Centenary
college for some time he finished his education in the University of
Mississippi, at Oxford, during which time he improved his opportunities to
the utmost and upon finishing his literary education was an exceptionally
well-informed young man.  He immediately settled down to tilling the soil
on the home plantation but in connection with this business is also engaged
in merchandising, being associated in the latter business with E. N.
Perkins, the style of the firm being E. N. Perkins & Co.  They do a general
supply and mercantile business, their establishment being located in one of
the finest and most fertile farming regions of the parish.  In 1877 Mr.
Perkins became the manager of the home plantation and successfully
conducted affairs until 1889, since which time he has been following the
same calling but solely for himself.  He is very progressive in his views,
is of a very energetic temperament, and as a result has made a success of
every enterprise in which he has engaged.  In his political views he has
followed in the footsteps of his father and is a democrat, but has never
taken any decided interest in political issues.  On January 18, 1887, he
was married to Miss Mary E. Gayden, a daughter of I. G. Gayden [see
sketch].  She was reared in East Feliciana parish, and her union with Mr.
Perkins has resulted in the birth of one son, Lewis Gayden.  The residence
in which Mr. and Mrs. Perkins reside is a two-and-a-half-story brick and
was erected in 1837 or 1838.  It is a spacious and imposing residence,
strictly southern in architecture, and under the regime of the Perkins
family has become noted for unbounded hospitality.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 306.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.

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