Distinguished Boston lawyer, a director of many corporations, and graduated Harvard, Class of 1891. He was also a member of the Harvard University Corporation and an assistant to the Secretary of War during the World War I.
He was made a Fellow of Harvard College at the young age of 35, first from 1905 to 1924, and again from 1926 to the day of his death. In 1926 during his absence from the Corporation he received Harvard's honorary degree of LL.D.
Mr. Perkins had a distinguished record as a scholar and athlete. He received the A.B., cum laude at Harvard in 1891--he was famous In his college days as the captain of the Harvard crew that defeated Yale In 1891. After College he graduated from the Harvard Law School and engaged in practice in Boston his until his death.
He was a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies.
During the Workd War I he was a member of the Priorities Commission and Chief Counsel of the War Industries Board, a member of the American Commission to the Inter-Allied War Conference in Paris, Assistant to the Secretary of War, and Assistant Director of Munitions.
On January 6, 1941, the Thomas Nelson Perkins Room in Massachusetts Hall, Harvard, was dedicated in his memory, the room being given to the use of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Mr. Perkins died in his home in his sixty-eighth year. He had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December 1930.
He was the son of Edward Cranch Perkins and Jane Sedgwick (Watson) Perkins. He was married to Louisa J. Catherine (Adams) Perkins--together they had three sons: Elliot Perkins, James Handasyd Perkins II, and Thomas Nelson Perkins, Jr.
He was made a Fellow of Harvard College at the young age of 35, first from 1905 to 1924, and again from 1926 to the day of his death. In 1926 during his absence from the Corporation he received Harvard's honorary degree of LL.D.
Mr. Perkins had a distinguished record as a scholar and athlete. He received the A.B., cum laude at Harvard in 1891--he was famous In his college days as the captain of the Harvard crew that defeated Yale In 1891. After College he graduated from the Harvard Law School and engaged in practice in Boston his until his death.
He was a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies.
During the Workd War I he was a member of the Priorities Commission and Chief Counsel of the War Industries Board, a member of the American Commission to the Inter-Allied War Conference in Paris, Assistant to the Secretary of War, and Assistant Director of Munitions.
On January 6, 1941, the Thomas Nelson Perkins Room in Massachusetts Hall, Harvard, was dedicated in his memory, the room being given to the use of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Mr. Perkins died in his home in his sixty-eighth year. He had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December 1930.
He was the son of Edward Cranch Perkins and Jane Sedgwick (Watson) Perkins. He was married to Louisa J. Catherine (Adams) Perkins--together they had three sons: Elliot Perkins, James Handasyd Perkins II, and Thomas Nelson Perkins, Jr.
Distinguished Boston lawyer, a director of many corporations, and graduated Harvard, Class of 1891. He was also a member of the Harvard University Corporation and an assistant to the Secretary of War during the World War I.
He was made a Fellow of Harvard College at the young age of 35, first from 1905 to 1924, and again from 1926 to the day of his death. In 1926 during his absence from the Corporation he received Harvard's honorary degree of LL.D.
Mr. Perkins had a distinguished record as a scholar and athlete. He received the A.B., cum laude at Harvard in 1891--he was famous In his college days as the captain of the Harvard crew that defeated Yale In 1891. After College he graduated from the Harvard Law School and engaged in practice in Boston his until his death.
He was a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies.
During the Workd War I he was a member of the Priorities Commission and Chief Counsel of the War Industries Board, a member of the American Commission to the Inter-Allied War Conference in Paris, Assistant to the Secretary of War, and Assistant Director of Munitions.
On January 6, 1941, the Thomas Nelson Perkins Room in Massachusetts Hall, Harvard, was dedicated in his memory, the room being given to the use of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Mr. Perkins died in his home in his sixty-eighth year. He had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December 1930.
He was the son of Edward Cranch Perkins and Jane Sedgwick (Watson) Perkins. He was married to Louisa J. Catherine (Adams) Perkins--together they had three sons: Elliot Perkins, James Handasyd Perkins II, and Thomas Nelson Perkins, Jr.
He was made a Fellow of Harvard College at the young age of 35, first from 1905 to 1924, and again from 1926 to the day of his death. In 1926 during his absence from the Corporation he received Harvard's honorary degree of LL.D.
Mr. Perkins had a distinguished record as a scholar and athlete. He received the A.B., cum laude at Harvard in 1891--he was famous In his college days as the captain of the Harvard crew that defeated Yale In 1891. After College he graduated from the Harvard Law School and engaged in practice in Boston his until his death.
He was a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, the Merrimac Chemical Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Stone and Webster, Inc., the Old Colony Trust Company, the Southern Pacific Company, the First National Bank of Boston, and numerous other companies.
During the Workd War I he was a member of the Priorities Commission and Chief Counsel of the War Industries Board, a member of the American Commission to the Inter-Allied War Conference in Paris, Assistant to the Secretary of War, and Assistant Director of Munitions.
On January 6, 1941, the Thomas Nelson Perkins Room in Massachusetts Hall, Harvard, was dedicated in his memory, the room being given to the use of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Mr. Perkins died in his home in his sixty-eighth year. He had been in ill health for two years and had been bedridden since December 1930.
He was the son of Edward Cranch Perkins and Jane Sedgwick (Watson) Perkins. He was married to Louisa J. Catherine (Adams) Perkins--together they had three sons: Elliot Perkins, James Handasyd Perkins II, and Thomas Nelson Perkins, Jr.
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