Perkins, Robert Patterson : 1861-1924

Name : Robert Patterson Perkins
Occupation : Carpet manufacturer
Born : New York City, Dec. 3, 1861
Died : April 28, 1924
Parents : Son of Charles Lawrence and Elizabeth West [Nevins] Perkins.

Education : Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1884, Master of Arts, 1921
Married : unmarried

Clerk at the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, 1884-1886; salesman at P. Lorillard & Company, 1886-1888; New York agent at H. C. Thaacher & Company, 1888-1892; secretary at E. S. Higgins Carpet Company, 1892-1899, president from 1899-1901; elected president 1901, Hartford Carpet Corporation which absorbed E. S. Higgins Carpet Company, and president of its successor, The Bigelow Hartford Carpet Company since 1914.

Lt. Col. American Red Cross, 1917; commissioner in Italy, taking over relief work there, 1917.

Clubs :  Harvard (president 1919), Knickerbocker, Union, The Brook, Racquet and Tennis, National Golf Links, Garden City Golf, Piping Rock, New York Yacht.

Home Address : Centerport, Long Island, New York
Office Address : 385 Madison Avenue, New York, New York.

~ Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 2539 (Necrology Page 164: Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America)

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