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Author: Will T. Hale

   DANIEL PRICE PERKINS. Noteworthy for his good citizenship and many excellent

traits of character, Daniel Price Perkins, of Murfreesboro, has been closely

identified with the development of the industrial interests of the city, and as

an honored representative of the courageous pioneers of Tennessee is eminently

deserving of especial mention in this work. A son of Peter Perkins, he was born

in Hinds county, Mississippi, and was there brought up and educated.



   His grandfather, Col. Nicholas Tate Perkins, was born in North Carolina, a

son of Charles Perkins, and grandson of one Nicholas Perkins. In early manhood

he migrated to Tennessee, locating about 1800 in Williamson county in pioneer

days. The country roundabout was then in its primitive condition, its dense

growth of timber being inhabited by the wily red man, and the beasts of the

forest, neither of whom were pleasant neighbors. The Indians strenuously opposed

the entrance of the white settlers into their happy hunting grounds, and in the

numerous wars instituted by the savages Colonel Perkins commanded large bodies

of brave troops. Purchasing a tract of wild land on the Big Harpeth river, a few

miles from Franklin, he began the improvement of a homestead, bravely and

cheerfully laboring in common with his pioneer neighbors to clear the land, and

with them left footprints where the coming generations are now following with

far less exertion, and with a far greater number of the comforts and luxuries of

this world, for which they, mayhap, are not sufficiently grateful. Colonel

Perkins married his cousin, Annie Perkins, and both lived to a ripe old age,

passing away on the home farm. There they reared a large family of children,

thirteen in number.



   Peter Perkins was born on the home farm, in Williamson county, and grew to

man's estate amid pioneer scenes. Not content to till the soil for a living, he

settled in Hinds county, Mississippi, and was there engaged in mercantile

pursuits until his death, in 1842, while yet in the prime of life. He married

Sarah P. Camp, who was born in Virginia, and died, in 1852, in Williamson

county, Tennessee, where she settled soon after the death of her husband. She

reared three children, namely: James Camp, Charles, and Daniel Price.



   Having acquired his early education in the rural schools and at Harper

Academy, Daniel Price Perkins began life for himself in Williamson county,

Tennessee, as a farmer. Soon after the breaking out of the war between the

states he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-fifth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, which

was later consolidated with the Forty-fourth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, and

with his regiment was on duty in Nashville until after the surrender of Fort

Donelson. With his command, Mr. Perkins subsequently took an active part in the

battle of Shiloh, continuing with the western army until after the fall of

Chickamauga. Going then to Knoxville with his regiment, he remained for some

time in eastern Tennessee, going thence to Virginia, where he was at the front

in many of the engagements in and around Richmond and Petersburg. At the battle

of Hatcher's Run, on April 2, 1865, Mr. Perkins was captured by the enemy, and

taken to Fort Delaware, and was there confined as a prisoner-of-war until the

close of the conflict.



   Returning home, Mr. Perkins was actively engaged in agricultural pursuits in

Williamson county until 1882. Coming in that year to Murfreesboro, he was for

several years prominently identified with the advancement of the lumber

interests of this city, carrying on a substantial business in company with

George W. Ransom. At the present writing, in 1913, he is serving as president of

the Perkins Crichlow Lumber Company, a well-known and prosperous organization.



   Mr. Perkins has been three times married. He married first Kate Morgan,

daughter of Rufus and Jane (Williams) Morgan. She passed to the life beyond in

1872, leaving five children, namely: Mary, Morgan, Charles F., Jennie and Kate.

He married second Mrs. Florence Fletcher, nee Ewing, who died in 1896, leaving

two children, Rebecca and Sarah. Mr. Perkins married for his third wife Mrs.

Mattie (Curran) Wilson. Religiously Mr. Perkins is a valued member of the

Presbyterian church, in which, he is a deacon.





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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913

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